noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a weekend cottage British English (= a house you have in the country, where you spend your weekends )
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A friend of mine has a weekend cottage on the South Coast, and we often go down there in summer.
cottage cheese (= a type of soft white cheese with small lumps in it )
cottage cheese
cottage hospital
cottage industry
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Hand weaving is a flourishing cottage industry in the region.
self-catering accommodation/apartment/cottage etc
tied cottage
timbered houses/cottages
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
little
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The luncheon table in the little cottage was spread with cheese, olives, sardines and bread.
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Twin Lakes Fish Camp provides trailer hookups, tent camping sites, and several little cottages .
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Following that, we returned to our little cottage and settled in for the night.
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Keith Richards used to stay in the little cottage at the bottom of Ron's garden.
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His deep radio voice inflated the little cottage .
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My chance came some weeks later, when he visited me one November evening in my little cottage .
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Mine was the Kloeckls', an old couple who lived in a little green cottage by the lake.
old
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The cart stopped beside an old cottage near the edge of the mainland.
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Rents the old Tanner cottage , remember it?
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It was the oldest cottage in the area and I spent hours looking out to sea.
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They stood on the veranda and admired the view and praised what Oliver had been able to do with the old cottage .
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This together with the oldest farmsteads and cottages is built in whole or part of cobbles.
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An inn and a few old cottages stood to one side of the lock.
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Once completed, the house blends in well with older cottages in Weobley.
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By chance he said there was an old cottage up here.
small
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A small cottage industry of biotechnology firms has sprung up to investigate this, using a variety of methods.
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Snow White came upon a small cottage in the mountains.
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Now thirty-five intrepid Lionisers were gazing at the outside of the small single-fronted cottage with its tiny parlour overlooking the street.
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A hundred yards out, he looked back at the small yellow cottage on the slope above the lake.
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Sammy lived in a small cottage on the bank of the Berkeley to Gloucester canal.
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We walk on through two small clusters of cottages , the East End and the West End.
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He was a hardworking, frugal and thrifty man who was saving to buy a small cottage from his employer.
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Voice over Border Oak builds around 30 timber framed homes a year from manor houses to small cottages .
thatched
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There is not an abundance of thatched cottages in the wolds, but those that do exist are real gems.
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Turn left when level with thatched cottage on track.
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The road brought them to the centre of the two rows of thatched cottages .
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Elizabeth Manor House, thatched cottages , farm and craft buildings.
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They were the sons of Thomas Jackson, a humble farm labourer who brought up ten children in a thatched cottage .
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I lived with an elderly lady in a little thatched cottage which looked like something out of Hansel and Gretel.
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There was a row of whitewashed thatched cottages on the right.
tied
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The book was influential in the abolition of the tied cottage in the years following the war.
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Grandfather's wage was the magnificent sum of twelve shillings per week and of course he lived in a tied cottage .
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Mr. Dunn Does my hon. Friend accept my view that the Labour party would really like tied workers living in tied cottages ?
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The crux of the tied cottage problem, it was argued, was the shortage of rural housing.
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The Act gives protection, if sometimes uncertain protection, to most full-time workers living in agricultural tied cottages .
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He lives in a tied cottage owned by them.
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In addition there is one other institution which symbolizes the continuing dependency of agricultural workers upon local farmers - the tied cottage .
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Agriculture tied cottages are houses provided by farmers as part of their workers' terms of employment.
tiny
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With Marjorie, she rented a tiny cottage at the edge of a dairy farm in Dorset, Vermont.
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This tiny cottage was occupied by a charming, grandmotherly lady called Mrs. Newman.
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The Plot Mr and Mrs Kim-Soon lived in a tiny cottage on the side of a mountain.
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Writers, artists and Bohemians now lived in some of the tiny terraced cottages facing the quay.
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Today they have a 14-year-old son and rent a tiny white cottage in Delano.
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Laugharne is a picturesque blend of genteel georgian houses and tiny cottages .
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In contrast Mr. Hargreaves' general stores was in a tiny cottage - again the front room had been adapted.
■ NOUN
cheese
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Waistliner - combine cottage cheese , diced red pepper and sweetcorn. 7.
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There are several curd styles of cottage cheese .
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Sieve the cottage cheese , or pur e in a food processor or liquidiser and beat in the egg and milk.
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In 1980, the per capita consumption in the United States was 18 pounds of cheese of which one-third was cottage cheese.
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Combine the fromage frais and cottage cheese .
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Meanwhile, in a blender, liquefy the cottage cheese and milk.
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Top with the cottage cheese , and sprinkle the mixed herbs on top.
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They include the various cottage cheeses , cream cheeses, domestic Neufchatel cheese, and the whey cheeses of Scandinavia.
country
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Two country cottages converted to supply one double and one double plus one single bedded rooms.
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The country cottage with roses round the door.
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If Minton, however, visited Lehmann at his country cottage for Sunday lunch, he did so in Ricky's company.
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The rest have been demolished, vandalised or turned into country cottages .
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Of course many will still opt for the country cottage look which remains as fresh and comforting as flowers in May.
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I have to find another flat, a quiet one, or else a country cottage where Marcus can be a hermit.
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She was going to buy a country cottage in the Cotswolds and live there with her sister.
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Main picture: Faded furniture, old-fashioned fabrics and flowers combine to create a country cottage feel.
door
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In Giselle Albrecht enters, in peasant clothes, and knocks on Giselle's cottage door .
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Cold icy winds swept under the gaps of cottage doors rattling them fiercely.
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I felt rather like a man who has knocked on a cottage door and found himself in a palace; vaguely foolish.
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In fact Irina at the cottage door had not been his first sighting.
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Gabriel put them all into a canvas bag and hung them on a nail inside the cottage door .
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Throughout the day I left the cottage door open.
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One night in bed I thought I heard knocking at the cottage door .
garden
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Nadine was sitting on the grass in the cottage garden , under a three-quarters-dead apple tree.
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Tulsa is a classic cottage garden , with more than 500 varieties of perennials tumbling over each other in a battle for space.
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Why not knit a cottage garden in bright colours to remind you of summer all year around?
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But even this little collection of cottage garden produce won't change hands without some stern bargaining.
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Formal beds and borders must be accompanied by a formal pool, while a cottage garden atmosphere dictates an informal feature.
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Such survivals in the unbroken tradition of the cottage garden are now rare examples of such excellence and are very scarce indeed.
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The friends of Church Farm Museum have planted a delightful, traditional cottage garden outside.
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Our cottage garden is an informal mixture of herbs and other traditional plants - it is a haven for bees and butterflies.
holiday
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Cottage raided: Cash totalling to £1,500 was stolen when thieves broke into a holiday cottage in Gayle, near Hawes.
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Nant-y-Glyn Leisure Holiday cottages &038; chalets set in a lovely sheltered valley.
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But a week or so in a holiday cottage isn't the same as becoming a permanent resident.
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Many local people also expressed concern at the number of holiday cottages and second homes in Wensleydale.
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Can anyone can offer a holiday cottage ?
hospital
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He'd got Miss Lockwood into the cottage hospital .
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They said cottage hospitals were a thing of the past and uneconomical.
industry
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Industry experts say this booming cottage industry now accounts for about a quarter of the X-rated video market.
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Health care is switching from a cottage industry of small hospitals to major affiliations in a huge health-care system.
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A craft which had once been profitably combined with farming became a miserable cottage industry dependent upon the towns and the bag-hosiers.
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A cottage industry has even sprung up among companies that provide information about other people seeking information.
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The vast majority of the population are labouring peasants or artisans in the cottage industries of the villages or the small cities.
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He also asserted that the day of the cottage industry was over.
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Technical standards unite this cottage industry of desk-top publishing with the presses of newspaper and magazine publishers.
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They controlled this cottage industry by buying, selling, transporting and exchanging raw wool, spun yam and woven cloth.
stone
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Simple stone cottages with solid walls are a good bet.
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A terrace of visually pleasing stone cottages facing the neat village green are dated 1846.
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At weekends he is likely to be found at his stone cottage complete with Aga, stream and duck pond.
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We arrive at the stone cottage tucked deep into the lee of the hill.
weekend
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This was a real village once - none of your weekend cottages and retirement homes like mine.
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The Newleys' weekend cottage was called Miller's End.
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When we got back from Berlin we spent a week out in the country at Beate's parents' weekend cottage .
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Have you built a weekend cottage ?
■ VERB
build
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I found them built into a cottage .
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Have you built a weekend cottage ?
buy
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He was a hardworking, frugal and thrifty man who was saving to buy a small cottage from his employer.
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In the 1960s she and husband Harry bought a Whitby cottage as a weekend retreat.
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Since buying the cottage , house prices had started on a steady descent.
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She was going to buy a country cottage in the Cotswolds and live there with her sister.
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This man wanted to buy his cottage and demolish it.
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Four years later Mrs J was able to sell the shared house and buy a cottage for herself.
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We bought our cottage from him.
leave
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She adjusted the hat as best she could and left the cottage .
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Perhaps it would be best if you left me at the cottage and went back to London.
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When I was about twelve the farm at Pilton was sold, and Uncle Bill had to leave his cottage .
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Had I even left my cottage at two o'clock?
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They had to leave their cottage within a week but fortunately another job with a cottage was obtained in Downton.
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Throughout the day I left the cottage door open.
live
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That meant he could live in a cottage with a view of the churchyard - like Dymlight has.
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If true, it could spell big trouble for many people, and not just those living in seaside cottages .
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Families cherished their forbears, whether these had lived in humble cottages or in manor houses.
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His sisters return to their positions as governesses, and Jane goes to live in a cottage by the school.
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All the witches who'd lived in her cottage were bookish types.
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The Plot Mr and Mrs Kim-Soon lived in a tiny cottage on the side of a mountain.
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Sammy lived in a small cottage on the bank of the Berkeley to Gloucester canal.
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Officers are now comforting his 85 year old former housekeeper who also lives at the cottage .
move
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They'd moved to their cottage a few years ago and ran an electrical business in Didcot.
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She found them and moved into their cottage .
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The next day the Rivers family returned to their separate places of work, and I moved to the cottage in Morton.
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Simon was sitting in Thomas's armchair, which was too big to be moved to the cottage .
reach
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When they reached the cottage they both felt the need for unity.
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When they reached the cottage , Wade parked near the porch and carried her suitcase inside.
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He had to get to the postman before he reached the cottage .
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Just as they reached the cottage , Dario came out, complaining about having a little flu.
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Mummy's car was still moving, though it had reached Jane's cottage now.
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It was a little past seven when he reached the cottage .
rent
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They had rented a cottage overlooking the sea on the East Hill at Hastings.
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Hewlett rented a cottage behind their house in Palo Alto.
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One Easter, we rented a cottage in Sandwick.
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In the kitchen of our rented seaside cottage , something was moving.
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I understand that you have rented the cottage , miss.
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With Marjorie, she rented a tiny cottage at the edge of a dairy farm in Dorset, Vermont.
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Today they have a 14-year-old son and rent a tiny white cottage in Delano.
return
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It was with these thoughts that I returned alone to the cottage .
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Following that, we returned to our little cottage and settled in for the night.
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She'd have to return to the cottage .
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He spent his days wandering around the rugby pitches doing nothing and refused to return to his cottage .
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If - when - she returned , she might return to the cottage and not to the farm.
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It was still raining hours later when Sara returned to the cottage .
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Ludens received one shock as he was returning to the cottage .
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When I caught up with Jean-Claude, he told me to return to the cottage alone.
stay
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We have been frequent visitors at Government House and have been staying also at their cottage , New Norfolk.
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Keith Richards used to stay in the little cottage at the bottom of Ron's garden.
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Guests would stay in a cottage in the garden.
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He and Polly and the twins had been to stay at the cottage once, that was all, for a weekend.
walk
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They had walked past the cottages and were half-way down the hill when the first drop of rain fell.
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Willie walked slowly past the cottages .
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Doing as she had bid herself, she walked into the cottage and then spoilt it all by slamming the door.
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They confirmed that Black was an innocent person who walked into his own cottage on lawful business that Saturday afternoon.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A few secluded cottages are located along the narrow winding road.
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a row of thatched cottages in a rural village
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She lives in a charming cottage deep in the Kent countryside.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Beatrice was pleased and invited Guillaume to her cottage for tea.
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Earl grabbed the girl, looked right then left down the row of shuttered summer cottages, and shoved the girl inside.
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He also asserted that the day of the cottage industry was over.
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He could just make out the two rows of cottages and the fields beyond them.
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It was with these thoughts that I returned alone to the cottage .
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The cottages look sort of bare.
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The interior is furnished simply but very pleasantly in keeping with the old-world cottage ambience of the house.
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They controlled this cottage industry by buying, selling, transporting and exchanging raw wool, spun yam and woven cloth.