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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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car
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Investigations are continuing to discover how the two cars came to collide at the Great Stainton crossroads on the narrow road.
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That car collided with the vehicle in which Waltrick was riding.
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Nine cars and a van collided , spilling wreckage across all three lanes of the motorway.
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I had a glimpse of four or five cars collided into one another, and a gathering of forty or fifty people.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
crash/collide/smash etc head-on
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But that image collided head-on with life last month.
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He and Carter were doomed to collide head-on .
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Shortly after the £5 million junction was opened, two trains collided head-on killing four people and injuring 22.
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The cab control car of a commuter train being pushed from the rear collided head-on with an Amtrak diesel locomotive.
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They can collide head-on with what we believe to be right.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Barker and Mason collided while going for the ball.
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Four or five cars had collided in the fog.
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I backed out of the door and promptly collided with someone. 'I'm sorry,' I said.
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The transport helicopter he was in collided with another and crashed.
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The two players collided and Jordan fell to the floor.
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When the plates of land that form the earth collide or slide past each other, earthquakes result.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All of the Amor asteroids cross the orbit of Mars and could collide with it.
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But that image collided head-on with life last month.
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Duvall lashed backwards, but Jimmy had leapt to his feet, colliding with one of the hessian screens.
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For no apparent reason he had collided with a car coming in the opposite direction, killing the other driver instantly.
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The human desire for certainty collides with our love of enigma.
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They were politely kind to each other, as people always are whose ambitions temporary collide in public.
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This requires that the machine be placed on a surface such that the tray is not constantly collided with by passers by.
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What was happening, and why did the super-powers collide just here and just now?