I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a coach/bus/boat trip
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They took a boat trip to see the seals.
a flight/train/coach departure
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I'm afraid your flight departure has been delayed.
a train/bus/coach ticket
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I’ve lost my train ticket.
bus/coach/car etc travel
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The price is £98, inclusive of coach travel.
career coach
coach house
coach station
coaching inn
life coach
the team manager/coach
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Who do you think will be the next England team manager?
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
assistant
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Plucked out of school rugby by the current All Black assistant coach , Ellis has impressed with his ability and polished skills.
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I thought maybe I could be hired by a Major League Soccer team or continue on as an assistant coach .
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Bill Tobin is a firm believer that the scouting department should have more influence than assistant coaches in running the draft.
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Suns assistant coach Donn Nelson has a loaded itinerary.
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It came during a trip to visit a former Pierce assistant coach in Northern California.
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He was with Baltimore as an assistant coach with Don Shula.
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There were no blurry eyes, no one-on-one sessions with the assistant coaches in a remote corner.
national
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With the co-operation of the national weightlifting coach , Ziegler persuaded three weightlifters to begin using Dianabol.
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The League had decided to keep that Saturday clear to help national coach Andy Roxburgh prepare for the match.
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There, Williams wowed national coaches with her array of pitches.
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Last Sunday the Leicester City manager agreed to become caretaker national coach for the friendly in Turin.
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In an act of admirable but ultimately misguided loyalty, the national coach Andy Roxburgh stood by his dispirited keeper.
■ NOUN
basketball
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Fast guys tire, a basketball coach once said of his own high-rise team, but big guys don't shrink.
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It took those games to cement his decision on a basketball coach .
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If he keeps blossoming at this rate, too, basketball coaches soon will be pitching tents in his yard.
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She finds her answer on the bulletin board where the job as varsity basketball coach is posted.
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The son of a high school basketball coach , Knight has always relished pressure situations.
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Now the girls basketball coach has given the school and the town of Bushnell even more reason to be proud.
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She was once a girls' high school basketball coach .
football
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Mr Baldry, 49, a qualified football coach , was until recently managing director of a travel and sports company.
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It turned out about the good-looking fellow from Essex County that he was a football coach who also did some counseling.
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Hey, that's a big contract new football coach John Mackovic got!
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Mr Yanase is a football coach , a psychologist, and a college president.
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He was an assistant football coach at Colorado in the 1980s and had a law practice.
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In managing your finances, you should look at your assets the way a football coach looks at his team.
head
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The campaign also will feature celebrities such as former Dallas Cowboys head coach Tom Landry singing soccer's praises.
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Carolina coach Matt Doherty is in just his second year as a head coach, his first with the Heels.
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Another possible candidate is MCC's highly successful head coach , Don Wilson.
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Bill Russell becomes the first black head coach in the National Basketball Association in 1966.
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Lantz resigned effective immediately after nine years as head coach .
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Shula became head coach of the Cincinnati Bengals.
party
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A series of cancellations by coach parties left their Rosslyn Hotel in Falmouth with no bookings at all.
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Notes Large coach parties will be split into smaller groups.
station
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Were there two valuations for the coach station in Southampton?
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Its city bus station was sold for development and its long-distance coach station was wholly unexpectedly sold for £4 1 million.
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A back-up power system at the coach station did operate but only lasted three hours.
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Because of Stagecoach's speculation, the ratepayers of Southampton have had to fork out El 38,000 to provide another coach station .
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We are close to coach station and walking distance from railway station.
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After all, why do they need a coach station ?
trip
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It would entail a coach trip of about two and a half hours each way.
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We also have a two-night coach trip which costs just £149.
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She was one of the more cautious volunteers, yet she took the coach trip .
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Looe Bindown golf course is 4 miles away, boat and coach trips can be arranged.
■ VERB
drive
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Callinicos drives a coach and horses through postmodernism; well and good.
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But how useful would such a right be anyway, if an intelligence agency can drive a coach and horses through it?
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Those things drive me crazy, coaches worried about how they look, because then their decisions are not team decisions.
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He called a coach quickly, laid Oliver on the seat, and drove away.
hire
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Usually in May we hire a coach and about 50 of us set off on a 3-day, 2-night hotel stay.
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No university wants to hire a coach with a history of lawsuits, a troublemaker, a rocker of boats.
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School officials said they planned to hire a new coach by the end of the week.
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For $ 42 million, the Patriot should hire his own quarterback coach .
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Garrett noted that date as an important factor in hiring a coach .
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The situation was resolved when the school hired its new coach .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
drive a coach and horses through sth
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But how useful would such a right be anyway, if an intelligence agency can drive a coach and horses through it?
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Callinicos drives a coach and horses through postmodernism; well and good.
express train/coach/bus
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And the brakes feel like they could stop an express train.
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He took the ball like an express train and burst through the midfield defence.
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It still sounded like an express train in the confines of the small garage.
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It was perfect for low-fare express coach services.
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The subway trip seemed endless, even on the express train.
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Transfer to the Kobe line and catch the 8: 20 express train.
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Visitors have to take a local train to visit Delft; the express trains speed by.
hen house/coach house/storehouse etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a basketball coach
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a drama coach
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Many businesspeople have begun flying coach to save money.
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She's the coach of the volleyball team.
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We got a professional football coach to come and help us train the team.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As the coach was loaded on Sunday morning, the children looked on sadly.
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Chaney is one of the best coaches in the country, but he doesn't score any points for neatness.
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If he was careful she might even allow him to travel back with her on the coach .
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She knows almost no one in the Bay Area except her teammates and coaches.
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The coach makes his decisions and he is the boss.
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When the painting is complete it will be married with the Londonderry and Lough Swilly coach body now in store at Pennyburn.
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Word comes from Boston that longtime coach and scout John Killilea died.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
basketball
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Most basketball coaches would probably be eager to take a shot at slumping Syracuse right about now.
football
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He had the idea of offering parents a party formula of football coaching parties.
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No one sniggered when football coaches , business executives and politicians became fairer haired.
head
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Stability is not firing the head coach every three or four years.
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The 37-year-old former Pepperdine player took over as head coach last season.
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But then Garrett fired Parker and named Bibby as the interim head coach on Feb. 7.
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She was thirty-one at the time, and this was her first head coaching job.
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But on the other hand, there are only 29 head coaching jobs out there.
player
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Most officials have been as effective again this season as most players , coaches and viewers.
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As Tark himself noted, many of the players he coached at San Joaquin Memorial are now civic and business leaders.
team
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The team is being coached by Rachel Heyhoe Flint, one of the best female cricket players in the country.
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They are out there showing everyone what a team coached by Jody Runge can do.
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Both teams will be coached by Ulstermen, and also there will be an Ulster umpire, Tom Morrison.
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He took over a team that Bill Walsh coached to only three wins in 1994, and he elicited seven victories.
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Nothing wrong with that for a team and coach under such pressure-playing to the conditions and to your strengths.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
express train/coach/bus
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And the brakes feel like they could stop an express train.
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He took the ball like an express train and burst through the midfield defence.
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It still sounded like an express train in the confines of the small garage.
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It was perfect for low-fare express coach services.
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The subway trip seemed endless, even on the express train.
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Transfer to the Kobe line and catch the 8: 20 express train.
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Visitors have to take a local train to visit Delft; the express trains speed by.
hen house/coach house/storehouse etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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As well as teaching French, Martin coached tennis in his spare time.
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He seems to enjoy coaching children.
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James used to coach high school football.
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We need someone to coach the school team.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Drake started coaching lawyers on their opening statements a decade ago.
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He once coached Hollander, and he was thrilled to see the young man top Davis and make the world team.
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It was raining then, but she was focused on the job, on the opportunity to coach in the Pac-10.
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She also sang with Lothian Gaelic Choir and coached disabled horse riders.
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When I played pro ball, I'd volunteer and coach in the off-season.