noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
carry
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Patients were dying by the hundreds, but there was nobody to carry away the corpses .
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A bell sounded in the church at Gushibov, either calling Gentiles to Mass or because they were carrying out a corpse .
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One of the men with sticks came over and carried his corpse away.
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That said, our witnessing of a four-hundred-year-old tree carried like a corpse along the highway troubles him, too.
find
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A week later villagers found the corpse of his eldest daughter, 12, by the creek.
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They find a corpse in the tub with a gun alongside him.
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If you send men into the forest you will find her frozen corpse in that cave she called her home.
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Everything that could be smashed had been, but we found no corpses .
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The shock of finding the corpse had made him forget to shave.
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Every morning, when l opened my door, I found five or six corpses on the step.
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After we'd found the corpses of the assassins.
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When I passed the place again, half an hour afterwards, I found him a corpse .
lie
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The corpse still lay sheeted on the bed.
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The corpses lay there for several days in the rain.
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The corpse lay on the ground, arms and legs detached from the body.
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Twisted, blackened corpses lie side-by-side on a cold-looking concrete floor.
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When I used to read to you in bed you must have thought that Coleridge's mummified corpse was lying between us.
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Its corpse lay at her feet, slowly sinking into the moss and mud.
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Only his corpse lying on its back, a knife plunged into its heart.
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The corpse of a man lay there: red-haired, red-bearded, face long and marble-white.
see
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Then we were by the counter and through the glass I saw a feathered corpse , twisted to show its plumpness.
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Now here is a happening that illustrates my meaning: I believe it was in Rostov that I saw my first corpses .
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You saw the corpse , Sir John, and the chamber?
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He opened his mouth to speak, but saw the corpse stretched before him and shut it.
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You know, Clerk, I have seen many a corpse .
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I saw the corpses of eight, photographed some of them.
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I went down to the execution yard where I saw three corpses .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The streets were filled with the stench of decaying corpses.
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Thieves are digging up corpses in order to steal jewellery and gold teeth.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Brief peace settled over Ulthuan, like the shroud over a corpse .
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Everything that could be smashed had been, but we found no corpses.
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For a year or more Menelik had lain in the palace, a living corpse , paralysed and speechless.
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It is in these brasses that one discovers the three different ways of positioning the arms of a corpse .
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Nilsen was finally arrested when pieces of the corpses he was flushing down the toilet blocked the drain.
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They often made presents of their relatives' corpses to whites.
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This was sublime ridiculousness, to give away a blood-soiled shirt to a walking corpse .
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Tubs, their ribs opening, held the corpses of camellias, their desperation for water manifest.