I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
alarm clock
at three o'clock/seven thirty etc on the dot (= at exactly 3:00/7:30 etc )
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Mr Green arrived at six on the dot .
bell/clock tower
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The bell tower was added to the church in 1848.
biological clock ticking
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career women who hear the biological clock ticking
biological clock
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career women who hear the biological clock ticking
body clock
carriage clock
clock cycle
clock speed
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a clock speed of 1 gigahertz
cuckoo clock
dandelion clock
five o'clock shadow
grandfather clock
it’s turned 2 o'clock/5/midday etc
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It’s just turned three.
race against time/the clock
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The astronauts are racing against time to repair the spaceship.
The clocks go forward
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The clocks go forward this weekend.
time clock
wall-mounted clock/heater/lights etc
working round the clock (= working day and night without stopping )
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Forty police officers are working round the clock to find Murray’s killer.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
biological
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It's the men now, as often as not, who hear the biological clock ticking loudest.
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We watch commercials for pregnancy testers that warn women to remember their biological clocks .
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The way Max's biological clock is ticking, it's a wonder Emma didn't call out the bomb squad.
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Unlike mechanical clocks , which are completely blind to their surroundings, a biological clock gets reset every day by the sun.
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The ticking of the biological clock .
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Of course, nature being unjust as ever, I have no biological clock of my own.
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You are an owl-and-lark couple, people whose biological clocks simply don't match.
digital
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Her gold watch and her digital clock agree that it is nineteen minutes past eight.
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Smith looked at his watch, at the wall clock , at the digital clock.
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As she descended the escalator towards the platforms, she noticed the digital clock in the ceiling.
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The digital 24-hour clock , for instance, can be set with one hand.
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I look at the digital clock , built into the bedside.
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As I move round I see the numerals of a digital clock .
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The digital clock was counting down towards the performance.
internal
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This theory also implies that the internal body clock takes up to five years to develop fully.
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When users set the alarm in the internal clock , they would click on a picture of a rooster.
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His internal clock indicated that his energy levels were at zero.
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There is no pill of which we are aware that can be relied upon to promote adjustment of the internal clock .
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For example, during the daytime the internal clock as well as our life-style and environment raise body temperature and the urinary removal of water.
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At night our internal clock , sleep, and our inactive environment act together to decrease temperature and urinary loss.
mechanical
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With the gradual introduction of mechanical clocks around the fourteenth century, hours of standard length became general.
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Unlike mechanical clocks , which are completely blind to their surroundings, a biological clock gets reset every day by the sun.
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The first mechanical clocks were large and unwieldy, and there was soon a desire for smaller and more portable mechanisms.
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But like a single gear in a mechanical clock , timeless can not keep good time all by itself.
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Despite the invention of the mechanical clock , for most people time remained uneven in quality.
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According to our present knowledge, this machine was the nearest the artificers of antiquity came to inventing a truly mechanical clock .
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It would seem that the date of the invention of the mechanical clock is probably some time between 1280 and 1300.
■ NOUN
alarm
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He checked the little luminous dial on his alarm clock: ten past three.
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I rolled over, sat up, blinked, and glared at the alarm clock .
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One matching baby-blue Samsonite hatbox, containing my shoes, portable alarm clock , and toilet articles.
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Or him who said he heard the horn, moaning softly like an alarm clock under an eiderdown?
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He must have gone to sleep at last for the next thing he heard was his alarm clock .
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The clinic responded with two more alarm clocks before prescribing drugs.
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I usually set my alarm clock for five, ready for me to be away two hours later at dawn.
body
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In all cases, the effect of the body clock is being accentuated by our life-style, generally by means of the hormone adrenalin.
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This theory also implies that the internal body clock takes up to five years to develop fully.
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Is it a function of our body clock or our life-style, or due to some interaction between the two?
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The body clock has been studied very little in older volunteers and so we do not know the answer to this.
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Those few studies that have been carried out in free-running experiments suggest that the body clock might run slightly faster.
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Do they result from the body clock , from sleep loss - or from some mixture of these factors?
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Our body clock as well as our habits will need modification.
carriage
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In the silence she heard the ticking of the carriage clock .
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He glanced at the carriage clock on the polished rosewood desk.
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When they left she found an antique carriage clock in the hallway missing and also some jewellery.
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As Ashi dressed swiftly her eyes were drawn back to the carriage clock .
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I'd take carriage clocks and videos.
church
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The single chime of a church clock rang out suddenly in the darkness.
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My heat was pounding as I began to count the strokes of the church clock .
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The church clock struck a quarter to twelve, and still the bride did not come.
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The church clock , slowly and deliberately striking seven in the morning, was like a knell to that day's death.
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As the church clock struck twelve, they listened to the heavy notes ringing out from the church tower.
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Local legend states that when it hears the church clock strike twelve it goes down to the River Avon to drink.
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Twelve was striking on the church clock .
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He increased his pace and arrived back at the hall as the church clock was striking six.
cuckoo
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I am famous for cuckoo clocks and chocolate.
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Beside the portrait was a carved cuckoo clock with green ivy and purple grapes growing around a green front door.
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There was a grotesque inventiveness, a deliberate eccentricity in the idea of the cuckoo clock that Melanie had never encountered.
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The cuckoo clock spun round and round.
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Have you seen those cuckoo clocks which have little weathermen as part of the mechanism?
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Melanie and Aunt Margaret sat in complete silence but for the ponderous ticking of the cuckoo clock and its regular two note interjections.
face
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The seconds crawl past as if they were anchored to the clock face .
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Neurologists like to draw a circle and ask the patient to fill in a clock face .
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Do you know just what your clock face is like?
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Some of you may well be surprised to find that your image of that clock face was mistaken.
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What was the precise time on that clock face when you looked at it just now?
grandfather
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The solemnly ticking grandfather clock by the door said two minutes to the half hour when Charles heard the Bishop approaching.
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She'd heard the grandfather clock down in the hall chime every quarter-hour until three o'clock.
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The room was silent, apart from the hollow and remorseless tick of a grandfather clock in the corner.
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No one in the hall except the grandfather clock I'd seen floating in my dream; no one came out of the sitting room.
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As he moved the beam, the shadow of the grandfather clock in the hall twisted and grew across the ceiling.
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The muffled tick of the grandfather clock echoed in one corner.
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The grandfather clock in an oak case is one of seven clocks and two barometers in the house.
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Clock stolen: A grandfather clock worth £1,000 was stolen from a house at Kepwick, near Thirsk.
kitchen
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Nine o'clock the kitchen clock said.
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Mrs Kelleher looked up to the yellow face of the kitchen clock .
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Waking with a jump, disorientated for a moment, Hilary stared in disbelief at the kitchen clock .
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The kitchen clock croaked and creaked, seeming to match the uneven rhythm of his heart.
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By Philippa's kitchen clock it was now a quarter past one.
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Glanced up at the kitchen clock .
radio
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The clock radio flashing the time at 88 past 88.
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Next to the bed was a table, a box of tissues, and a clock radio .
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The plastic speaker was the size of a bedside clock radio .
shot
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Even with the shot clock , teams with a lead can take time off the clock late in the game.
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The Heat led by 1 and the shot clock was approaching zero.
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Dead center as the shot clock went to zero.
speed
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The new iterations will feature a higher clock speed processor and two chips per board.
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For example, the 6x686-P200 system I tested uses a Cyrix chip with a clock speed of 166 megahertz.
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This is used to indicate the clock speed of computers.
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Despite the different clock speeds , all three offer roughly comparable performance when used to upgrade a 486 system.
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As of last week, Sun was still tinkering with the Viking's clock speeds .
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Faster clock speeds are expected later this year.
time
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A pseudo-variable which reads and sets the elapsed time clock .
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Dear Help Wanted: We punch a time clock and our employer has a rigid lateness policy.
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Alternatively, a single softner operating on a time clock and regenerating during the night may be the best solution.
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Baby schedules did not fit any time clock .
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Ensure that you are familiar with any heating controls the system may have such as a time clock or programmer.
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I was not looking at a time clock or hours.
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If there were a time clock for murder, it would show one every twenty-six minutes.
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The building had no water and the scoreboard had no time clock .
tower
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Some parts of the painting, such as the area around the clock tower are nearly finished at this stage.
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The famous clock tower stays as a permanent reminder.
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Only the clock tower on the stables showed from behind the trees.
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The only additions are the 30-year-old first pier and the clock tower seen in the distance.
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There is also an appealing clock tower , built in 1899.
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Henry was wasting his time and, as if to underline this fact, he glanced at the clock tower .
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The church dominates the commercial centre with its clock tower visible from the housing developments on the outskirts.
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A popular rendezvous and a familiar landmark with its prominent clock tower .
wall
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Julie cradled the mug of tea in both hands and looked at the wall clock on the other side of the kitchen.
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The yellow light shone on the wall clock .
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Vienna double weight wall clock , £330 and a Victorian sewing table, £340.
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Smith looked at his watch, at the wall clock , at the digital clock.
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Two garden seats went at £155; a Vienna wall clock made £190 and a school clock £90.
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A wall clock will tell you the time of day but not its manufactured brethren.
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Directly before her was a large wall clock .
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Von Stein had been checking the wall clock in the laboratory then looking back at his notes for some time.
■ VERB
beat
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Their aim - to beat the clock and each other in a competition to find the fastest draw in the country.
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Use a timer and ask the student to beat the clock .
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Secondly, it has to beat the clock .
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In both halves, the Owls had difficulty setting up their offense and often rushed bad shots to beat the 35-second clock .
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Sometimes I wake early to beat the clock .
glance
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He glanced at the carriage clock on the polished rosewood desk.
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You glance at the clock . 11: 15.
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She glanced at the clock , and away again quickly.
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I glanced at the clock with uneasiness.
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Unthinkingly she glanced at the clock on the bedside-table and tears stung her eyes.
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Dunne glanced at the clock that hung beneath the picture of Robert Emmet.
hear
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Then, above the screams of the wind, he heard the great clock striking in the market place.
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He was alone and could hear the Kremlin clock .
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He must have gone to sleep at last for the next thing he heard was his alarm clock .
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Waiting to see what would happen to his brother, and therefore to him, he heard clocks .
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She'd heard the grandfather clock down in the hall chime every quarter-hour until three o'clock.
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It's the men now, as often as not, who hear the biological clock ticking loudest.
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He heard a clock strike eight.
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He heard the clock over the bus-station strike midnight.
look
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Conway looked at his clock and got out of bed.
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He would drift off to sleep again, only to wake and look at the clock .
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Then I looked closer at the clock .
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But overall, it looked like no other clock ever seen before or since.
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It looked like the clock was running faster than usual.
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Benjy looked up at the clock .
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We look at the pub clock and wonder where the rest of the band are.
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Wade fixed a pair of drinks, passed one over to Claude, and looked up at the clock over the stove.
race
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Thorns Gill is too precious to suffer damage by boots racing against the clock .
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That was the day Clinton, racing the clock , considered clemency for Rich and 175 others.
run
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The Saints then ran out the clock .
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But the Oilers tried to get a first down, to work the ball closer and run the clock down.
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There are now 21 talk shows on daytime television; two cable channels run them around the clock .
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Kaufman already had carried twice to run out the clock , gaining nothing.
set
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As with all radioactive methods, it is important to be clear about what sets the radioactive clock to zero.
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Bright light is one of the cues provided by nature to help set your clock .
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A pseudo-variable which reads and sets the elapsed time clock .
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TIMES$ A 24 character long string pseudo-variable which reads and sets the system clock .
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When setting the clock , the day of the week may be omitted.
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I usually set my alarm clock for five, ready for me to be away two hours later at dawn.
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He covered her with a blanket and set the alarm clock to ring in an hour, wrapping it in a towel.
stop
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The hands appear to stop when the clock gets to the boundary. 12.
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She wished she could stop the clock for a while and try to take it all in.
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Some expend tremendous energy desperately trying to stop the clock .
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The phone stopped ringing and the clock ticked then the phone started again and the clock stopped.
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The phone stopped and the clock ticked and the phone started a third time.
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The phone stopped , the clock ticked.
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If you are bled totally dry and white, they will simply stop the clock .
strike
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Twelve was striking on the church clock .
turn
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It was almost like turning the clock back a couple of centuries.
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Only if somebody can come up with a way to turn back the clock .
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No-one can turn back the clock .
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The most important thing now is not to turn the clock back.
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What is past is past and you can not turn the clock back.
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It is time to stop trying to turn back the clock .
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Has some one turned the clock back 100 years and forgotten to tell me?
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He thinks you can turn the clock back.
watch
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And watched the clock so he could call a halt to it as soon as possible.
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A houseful of people watched me around the clock , which only made me more determined.
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She watched the clock hands go round.
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If White wanted Black to be watched around the clock , he would have hired two or three men, not one.
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I am watching the clock , counting the minutes till the last period of the morning is over.
wind
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We thought we could wind the clock down and take our shot.
work
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For the past 4 days, they've been working around the clock and through the night.
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And they stopped at exactly twelve hours, so there were no penalties for overtime. everything worked by the clock .
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But the computers we work with operate on clocks that run to the thousands of cycles per second.
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Men from the Royal Engineers and local contractors have been working around the clock to make the barracks habitable.
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The company worked around the clock to repair the problem.
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Staff will work round the clock .
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They gave themselves entirely over to their employers and worked around the clock .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
analogue clock/watch
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An old-fashioned analogue watch and a chunky bracelet on the right wrist might be observed through half-closed lids.
at ten thirty/2 o'clock etc sharp
be going on (for) 5 o'clock/60/25 etc
beat the clock
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Secondly, it has to beat the clock.
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Sometimes I wake early to beat the clock.
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Their aim - to beat the clock and each other in a competition to find the fastest draw in the country.
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Use a timer and ask the student to beat the clock.
getting on for 90/10 o'clock/2,000 etc
one o'clock/two o'clock etc
punch the clock
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Bob is glad to have a job where he doesn't have to punch the clock.
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Bobby punched the clock in four other maquilas before she got her current job as a clothes inspector at the Minsa plant.
put a clock/watch back
put a clock/watch forward
the (9 o'clock) watershed
travelling rug/clock etc
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And he takes a travelling rug with him - another of those fussy bag-and-baggage objects which assert the novel's tonality.
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At a quarter to four by the little travelling clock at his bedside he got out of bed and went to the window.
watch the clock
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And watched the clock so he could call a halt to it as soon as possible.
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I am watching the clock, counting the minutes till the last period of the morning is over.
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Only then did she let herself watch the clock to the strains of Beethoven's Apassionata.
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She watched the clock hands go round.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As the clock struck twelve, the Judge placed the black hat on his head.
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He covered her with a blanket and set the alarm clock to ring in an hour, wrapping it in a towel.
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He would drift off to sleep again, only to wake and look at the clock .
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In essence, fire is networked to a clock .
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It has volleyball, softball, concerts, and art shows around the clock .
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The clock probably came from elsewhere in London..
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Two garden seats went at £155; a Vienna wall clock made £190 and a school clock £90.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
mile
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The Astra has now clocked up 17,300 miles and our time together is almost at an end.
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Altogether on the trip we clocked up over 1800 miles .
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Islander was now really beginning to clock up the miles .
sec
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The Gateshead Harrier clocked 8 mins 38.7 secs to eclipse Dennis Coates' time of 8:48.0, set in 1981.
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Under the weather or not Ashcroft clocked 2 mins 13.8 secs , almost a second faster than her winning time last year.
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Livingstone clocked 18 mins 6 secs for the 3 1/2 miles in heavy rain, beating Vose by ten metres.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
analogue clock/watch
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An old-fashioned analogue watch and a chunky bracelet on the right wrist might be observed through half-closed lids.
at ten thirty/2 o'clock etc sharp
one o'clock/two o'clock etc
the (9 o'clock) watershed
travelling rug/clock etc
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And he takes a travelling rug with him - another of those fussy bag-and-baggage objects which assert the novel's tonality.
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At a quarter to four by the little travelling clock at his bedside he got out of bed and went to the window.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The runner from Lynbrook clocked the fastest time this season on the mile run.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But he'd soon shut up if he clocked the Stud Hoss in the car park.
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Livingstone clocked 18 mins 6 secs for the 3 1/2 miles in heavy rain, beating Vose by ten metres.
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Roemer now recognized that earlier attempts to clock the speed of light had failed because the distances tested were too short.