I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a chess club
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a member of the school chess club
a club/team record
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Irvin holds a team record with 111 catches this season.
a cricket club (= a group of people who play cricket together, or the place where they play and meet socially )
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The village cricket club held a barbecue.
a fan club
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Her fan club has 25,000 members in the UK alone.
a football club
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Tottenham Hotspur is a North London football club.
a golf club (= a long thin metal stick used to hit the ball in golf )
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He spent $2000 on a new set of golf clubs.
a golf club/Club (= an organization that you join in order to use its golf course, or the building where members meet )
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the Royal Aberdeen Golf Club
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a party at the golf club
a golf club/Club (= an organization that you join in order to use its golf course, or the building where members meet )
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the Royal Aberdeen Golf Club
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a party at the golf club
a school/prison/club etc rule
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He had broken one of the school rules.
a sports club
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She joined her local sports club.
afterschool club
an exclusive club (= only open to particular people )
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Unfortunately, I’m not a member of the exclusive club of millionaires.
book club
car club
club class
club foot
club sandwich
club soda
country club
fan club
glee club
golf club
health club
home team/game/crowd/club etc
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The home team took the lead after 25 minutes.
investment club
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O'Hara belongs to an investment club in Detroit.
jack of hearts/clubs etc
service club
social club
strip club
the club scene (= going to nightclubs )
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I was really into the club scene.
youth club
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
big
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But it was born out of frustration with the intransigent Football League and greed among the bigger clubs .
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He was ambitious and he regarded Middlesbrough as a big club .
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These changes, which were limited to the big club sides, will be examined later in relation to media interest in sport.
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It became inevitable that he would move to a bigger club .
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Although they do not need it to fight they are usually armed with a big club made from a tree trunk.
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Burnley have beaten Britain's biggest clubs to arrange a prestige home friendly with Ajax on Tuesday.
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No individual, apart from myself, is bigger than this club .
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By doing so, they created the biggest football club in the world.
local
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The land is jointly owned by both local clubs .
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A new church in his last parish of Karori West; the local bowling club .
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Bartz's father ran a local jazz club , and Gary got an alto sax at eleven years of age.
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A local boys' club will collect the £650 prize.
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I am married, but I have somehow slipped into an affair with a man at our local squash club .
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The local bike club is now drawing up ideas for secure parking equipment it wants to see installed in the town centre.
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I belonged to the local farmers' club and had taken up curling.
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They were due to televise the contest from the Barbican centre in York to local pubs and clubs .
social
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It is more of a social club than a riding school.
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In 1955, Gibson formally dubbed it an organization, though social club might have been a more apt description.
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Often they are middle-aged or elderly ladies, who look upon it as a social club .
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At 16, Williams dropped out of school to sing in nightclubs and the flourishing dance scene at South Side social clubs .
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The newcomer is one election at the annual general meeting of members in the Mourneview Park social club tomorrow night.
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In the early 1930s, a former social club evolved into the Patients' Federation and a newspaper was started.
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They belonged to every organization, social club , old comrades association, and church for miles around.
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Tin ton Avenue was like a posse social club .
top
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The venue, previously called Allinsons, was once a top cabaret club for the country's star names.
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Nor were there frustrated breakaway movements from a handful of top clubs .
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He's wanted by some of the top clubs but they won't get him in the sales.
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One thing was almost certain - either the top club honours were split, or they were both with East.
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Perhaps all three universities in the league were still shell-shocked after being well beaten by the top Pizza clubs last Saturday.
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But Venables's most cherished dream, to be master of a top football club , has been shattered.
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Newcastle won six of the 12 relay races and easily took the top club trophy with 220 points.
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It was around these two precocious strikers that Torino intended to reclaim their rightful crown as the city's top club .
■ NOUN
book
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Four were circulars - two were reminders that his subscriptions to a book club and the golf club were overdue.
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Last fall, Winfrey decided to give fiction a boost by creating her on-air book club .
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This at a time when the book clubs are coming to trade in the high street.
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The kids belong to a book club .
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I think we all know that the book clubs are not naive.
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Several friends who are in book clubs have read the novel and loved it.
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The recently reestablished library club was described and the possibility of a book club considered.
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With Bertelsmann involved, it is not surprising that book clubs as well as electronics and book stores are being targeted as distribution channels.
country
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Tents and marquees have traditionally been used in the grounds of hotels and country clubs for special functions such as receptions and parties.
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We saw them once or twice a month and usually ate at their country club .
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And the fact that it is the first true country club in the area.
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His appeal extends beyond the old Republican base of suburban country club whites.
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Estate agents' advertisements habitually claim that country houses are suitable for every use from country clubs to prestige headquarters.
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I thought it was a country club .
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And they wore silk socks that would have been frowned upon at the more establishment country clubs in the Hamptons.
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Exertion of minimum effort to get required work done is appropriate to sustain organization requirements. Country club .
fan
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In just the few seconds that it took Roebuck to de-rail Shelford, a whole new Marty Roebuck fan club was born.
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Selena was murdered by the president of her fan club last March 31.
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Of these some 6,000 are members of a fan club . 18.
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Now if only there was an okonomiyaki fan club !
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But Dolan and Burgess have not signed up for the fan club .
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The majority of them were the surviving members of Yorick's fan club .
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Norton's Coin was not the subject of videos and telephone hotlines and fan clubs and exquisitely crafted models and opinion polls.
football
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I work for the football club .
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There are unlikely to be any problems in attracting a junior football club to share the school field.
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He, like goalkeepers at every football club , was a complete individual.
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It was like the changing-rooms of a thousand football clubs , or schools for that matter.
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Loyalty to urban football clubs stems from when their parents used to live in inner-city areas.
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There is no such thing as confidentiality at a football club .
golf
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Four were circulars - two were reminders that his subscriptions to a book club and the golf club were overdue.
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His partner has his car running, and away they go perhaps to their country home, or their golf club .
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What better forum for conspicuous consumption than the locker-room or the golf club car-park?
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Collective provision of services can be organized privately as in the case of golf clubs and motoring associations.
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This is when they were first married, and my father went out and joined a golf club .
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The bomb and the bullet of course provide more dramatic reportage than hard graft, the golf club and fishing rod.
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Moderate exercise includes general housework, mowing a lawn, carrying golf clubs , gardening, leisurely canoeing and dancing.
health
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If you're the owner of a health club like I am, it's a good advertisement, as long as you finish.
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The department occasionally receives complaints about health clubs , usually alleging a club did not fulfill promises about its facility or equipment.
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You know what it costs to join a health club these days?
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They appear in health club ads, fit, trim and tanned, with impossibly taut abdomens.
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The hotel has its own health club with saunas, solarium and work-out equipment available at a small charge.
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Join a health club to improve your fitness and figure. look carefully at your clothes.
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But this place - the Seraglio - is a luxury health club for women.
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The store cost $ 185 million to open, sporting custom-made furniture and a health club .
league
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The League clubs found the idea of relegation to what was in effect the Southern League too terrible to contemplate.
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In the nick of time: according to one recent report 80 out of 92 league clubs are technically insolvent.
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And yesterday his name was circulated to other Premier League clubs .
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And neither are all the new Premier League club chairmen happy over the new BSkyB deal.
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Johnrose, 22, has scored ten goals in 35 league appearance at Blackburn, his only league club .
member
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The event was such a success that club members are very much looking forward to him making a return visit.
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Admission is $ 3, $ 2 for club members .
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It is almost impossible to get access to a boat without being a rowing club member .
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The drinking exploits of club members were legendary.
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The husband of one of the club members had his camera handy to record the occasion of the Mayor's visit.
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I arranged to meet club members on Oxford Crag and was immediately intrigued.
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Gillis-Tweed was a gun club member and had firearms licences.
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This practice ensured as many bondholders as possible were reliable club members .
night
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Groover Records are now putting on a Monday night club at two different venues.
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After visiting the men's room at 5, the late-\#night club , Miller considered EarthLink's message.
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Why don't you focus on the up and coming young comedians from the pub and night club scene.
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The assault is alleged to have occurred at the Paradox night club in Aintree.
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Jagged bottles, hurled at her, in the dusk of an Istanbul night club , injured but did not kill her.
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Facilities include porterage, restaurant, cocktail bars, health &038; beauty care, hairdressing salon and Metro night club .
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Her daughter went on to visit a night club .
rugby
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Five years ago rugby club chiefs were in favour of selling but the cricket club committee was firmly against.
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The rugby club are helping with the organisation.
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It led to the rugby club ending the talks.
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It is understood the rugby club favours the development which could net £5m.
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Bicester rugby club drive towards another Twickenham appearance when they travel to Ongar tomorrow in the quarter finals of the Provincial Cup.
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A car matching police descriptions had been found in Jedforest rugby club car park.
scene
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Why don't you focus on the up and coming young comedians from the pub and night club scene .
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The Ramones languished, never graduating from the club scene that had nurtured them two decades earlier.
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At last it has been recognised that there are many females within the club scene who have true potential.
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Police are keen to bring in registration to improve the image of the Teesside club scene .
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It really was about these characters we know on the club scene .
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Despite having the healthiest club scene , Glasgow still specialises in churning out cod soul.
youth
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Following this event the ramps will be available for hire, for either events or youth clubs or whatever.
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They have an open youth club with a drop-in disco once a week on a Friday night.
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A letter to the chairman from Miss Bangham complaining of the misbehaviour of members of the youth club . 2.
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On Fridays there is usually a Disco at the youth club .
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Once, when he was the centre of attention at the youth club I saw him do it again.
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Born in the Gorbals, he learned boxing in a Catholic youth club and by fighting on the street-corners.
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Paul claimed he only joined the Normanby Road Methodist Church for the youth club where he began his entertainment career.
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Huh, bet I've done everything he's done, with Ange Dolittle behind the youth club .
■ VERB
belong
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I met him through my husband - they belonged to the same club .
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The kids belong to a book club .
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Glynn has a brother-in-law who belongs to a gun club .
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As a receiver, Irvin belongs to an exclusive club .
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So the players belong to the same club for the duration.
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She was thankful she had taken aerobics classes and belonged to a walking club .
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They belong to a club , they really care for each other in a way other people don't.
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Tenpin bowling has cheap membership and I believe at the end of the day, that people want to belong to clubs .
join
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He's not keen to join another Aussie club and face having to play against his old Penrith pals.
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He needs six points tonight in Orlando to join the club .
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Scholar also revealed details of Venables's contract when he joined the club as manager from Barcelona.
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ButIdid not come to Mitford to join the club and sit by the pool.
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Tod and I are feeling so terrific that we've joined a club and taken up tennis.
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No offer of financial help, no kind invitations to join them in club activities were forthcoming from Charles.
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He joined an athletic club in which there were a large number of activities ranging from yoga to judo.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an affiliated organization/club/member etc
go down the shops/club/park etc
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We went down the shops on Saturdays.
join the club
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ButIdid not come to Mitford to join the club and sit by the pool.
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He needs six points tonight in Orlando to join the club.
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If you're confused, join the club!
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If you have, then join the club.
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Scholar also revealed details of Venables's contract when he joined the club as manager from Barcelona.
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To join the club simply send your name and address to us at the address below.
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Well, they can join the club.
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When she had finally confirmed that Patricia Hoskin had never joined the club, Blanche made an excuse and left.
join the mile high club
lonely hearts club/column/ad
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He met Dominique through a lonely hearts ad.
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How would you describe yourself in a lonely hearts ad?
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They talked about books, the theatre, cinema, where they lived, lonely hearts columns.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a comedy club
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I met some friends at a party and then we went on to a club .
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If you want to go clubbing, London's the place to be.
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the North Manchester Judo Club
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The restaurant is located next to the fitness club .
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There are a number of clubs interested in getting a new quarterback.
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There is even a club for owners of Volkswagen buses.
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They're going out for dinner and then to a club .
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They've set up a chess club at school.
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They both belong to the local tennis club .
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Why don't you join your local swimming club if you're keen on swimming?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At age 5, Jewel began performing in clubs as part of a folk music trio with her parents.
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It is thronged with the scarves of London clubs.
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No evidence of a Buchanan trust fund or yacht club membership, however.
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She nodded in what she hoped was an equally casual manner and followed him across the crowded foyer to the social club .
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The adjustments are generally made in club selection, aim and body alignment at address.
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With Harry Kewell, too, they have displayed a narrow insistence on club before country.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
together
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The company had clubbed together to pay for her and Geoffrey.
■ NOUN
country
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It would be smaller than the local municipal pool and less exclusive than the country club .
golf
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Northern California golf clubs increasingly are joining the plastic-spikes-only bandwagon, but the legal implications are not lost on some.
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To get into the golf club ?
health
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Any new facilities constructed will closely resemble the facilities of commercial sector health clubs such as David Lloyd Centres or Esporta.
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Then out the glass door, back to your health club , your pecs, your abs.
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About one in five women twenty to forty-four years old work out at home or in health clubs .-Swimming.
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Why are Shape-Up Health Clubs better than those health clubs appearing at every corner?
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an affiliated organization/club/member etc
join the mile high club
lonely hearts club/column/ad
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He met Dominique through a lonely hearts ad.
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How would you describe yourself in a lonely hearts ad?
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They talked about books, the theatre, cinema, where they lived, lonely hearts columns.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Baby seals are clubbed to death for their fur.
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Football fans were clubbed by riot police trying to stop the violence.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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The seas smashed into his back, wind and water clubbed him off the seaton to the cockpit sole.