I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a spider crawls somewhere
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A huge spider just crawled under that chair.
an insect crawls (= moves along the ground )
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A tiny insect was crawling up his arm.
crawl into bed (= get into bed feeling very tired )
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We finally crawled into bed at three in the morning.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
about
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There were several families under the trees now, with little children running around and babies crawling about in the grass.
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Unlike those I had found in the winter, these ants crawled about weakly.
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Individual cells may crawl about over the surface of the sponge like amoebae.
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It crawled about outside the murmuring door and fell to the earth.
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Primeval and unfinished, crawling about like a busy white slug.
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Its tiny head and legs project from one side but it can no longer crawl about .
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He was strong, crawled about for a short while and walked quite strongly at ten months.
along
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He crawled along the branch until he reached the nearest flower.
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Paranoia crawls along on its belly in this forest.
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He crawled along the shelf, peering, feeling with his hands.
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Below, cars crawl along on mats of shadow; further off are two long ranks of primrose-yellow taxis.
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You either hear this truth or you crawl along the ground looking for worms.
around
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Just as soon as the young ferrets can see and crawl around the nest is the time to make a start.
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Inspectors may have to climb ladders or many flights of stairs, or may have to crawl around in tight spaces.
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Sooner or later you will find one or more adult insects crawling around inside the cage.
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Teddi was just out of her crib, and my parents had let her crawl around to play with her toys.
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All I can remember is crawling around the floor trying to get away from her.
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But it gave you some pause to think of what else might be crawling around there.
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The hands had crawled around to 1.26 a.m.
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Robert and Peter were crawling around under there, poking sills and floor joists.
away
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She felt cold and sick and wished she could crawl away and lie down.
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Last he heard, only one boy had dropped to the ground and managed to crawl away .
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Maggie felt like curling up and crawling away .
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But they crawl away from the fire and wriggle on top of the water.
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The fifth turned into a small yellow caterpillar and crawled away .
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If I had believed what they said about me, I would have crawled away and given up.
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Angalo nodded in a puzzled fashion, and crawled away into the darkness.
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It left a mark, they could see it now, gleaming on the sand as muddy swell crawled away .
back
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Clutching himself he crawled back to the cabinet and ran a tentative hand over the woodwork.
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Later, he's the one who's dumped and comes crawling back .
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Tom crawled back out into the sun and pulled Willie out after him.
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He regained consciousness and crawled back to the house to be taken care of by his young wife.
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They can find a way to crawl back if they want to.
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The other survivor, Bennett, crawled back and has since lain a cripple.
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Jinju had crawled back to the road.
down
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Secrets, she thought, feeling a cold, clammy fear crawling down her neck.
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I told her the whole ugly story, and step by step I crawled down into the horror of it again.
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I have crawled down the barrels of guns on all five continents, only to spring forth again - triumphant.
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It crawls down the vine and enters the soil, whereupon it reaches and punctures the roots for nourishment.
forward
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Then she crawled forward again, by inches.
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Miguel was parking the car-backing up, crawling forward , until the trunk of the Ford Escort ahead gleamed with his headlights.
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She began to crawl forward again, her eyes continually flickering between the tracks on either side of her.
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The shell would barely crawl forward , and certainly not overtake light.
in
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He crawled in here and the police came.
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The ravenous little blood-suckers were nipping at our ankles and crawling in through the eyelets of our boots.
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I might even be able to crawl in beside Helen for an hour.
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I was a little more agile and just jumped and crawled in .
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They crawled in , Creed crouched over her, Prunella taking most of his weight.
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What made you want to crawl in with them mucky birds like that?
off
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I brought my family in to see him, but he crawled off to hide among some pots.
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Now it is a dumb, stupid mastodon of a thing, crawling off to Bal Harbour to die.
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Surely these forces can not result in the ship crawling off the launch pad?
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Even drunks at parties manage to crawl off the mats to be ill.
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She would have hated it if she had to admit defeat, and crawl off to a hotel somewhere.
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I crawled off his body and sat down in the road, tears streaming down my face.
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A camera catches a technician crawling ofF the set!
on
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It was like being the first sea creature to crawl on to the shore and discover his gills had become lungs.
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She crawled on the ground in agony, fingers digging into the sandy soil like steel claws.
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She crawled on to the bed and hugged herself like a child with no one there to bring comfort.
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The Cockroach crawls on , at least for another day.
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And so the morning crawled on .
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He roared and crawled on up the valley.
out
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I crawled out cold, cramped, and feeling sick - to a world that seemed to have disappeared altogether.
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Glover would crawl out after him on the roof at the top of the house and look down on the lake.
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I awoke feeling cold and crawled out to the front of the trench.
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Used to crawl out on the roof in that little pink wrapper, but not anymore.
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He crawls out , his face streaked with oil, and dries himself with a rag.
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Fearful, yet inquisitive, Moon-Watcher crawled out on to the edge of the cave and peered down the face of the cliff.
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Not until they come down will people begin to crawl out from under their loads of debt.
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He was so tired his bones ached; but he crawled out of bed, put on his pants and watch.
over
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I am a fly on the face of the Almighty, crawling over the surface to see what's what.
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Directly below her were some tiny creatures crawling over the surface.
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Shivers crawled over her heated skin, her palms went clammy, and the blood drummed in her ears deafeningly.
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He crawled over to the fallen branch by the big pine, found his second shotgun and unwrapped it.
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The temptation to crawl over to him was strong, but she resisted.
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Small birds flitted in the shade of the branches and bees were crawling over the red and white clover.
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A mass of flies buzzed out of the knee-high undergrowth and crawled over his face and arms.
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Men crawled over the area like ants over an anthill, and several small handcarts rolled along here and there.
round
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As it crawls round and round in circles it keeps revisiting the same pebbles.
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Reaching the point where Fernand had disappeared, she crawled round the angle of rock.
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Ten yards further on, Siegfried found a trip-wire and gestured McCready to crawl round it.
up
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I stood, swayed, dropped my hands to the steps and crawled up .
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Miguel crawled up the street slowly, slipping into a parking spot a block down from the fire.
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They also stop insects crawling up the waste pipes.
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He crawls up to her on all fours like a gentle but ravenous bear and begins to nuzzle her.
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He tried to crawl up her and she screamed and fell over.
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Then one morning I wake to feel one crawling up my arm.
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The larvae of red worms crawl up the blades of grass and are eaten by horses.
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He left the place quickly, embarrassment crawling up his neck as he found his way to the door.
■ NOUN
ant
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Then ants would crawl through the cracks in the floor and build a big nest in the middle of the bedroom.
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Unlike those I had found in the winter, these ants crawled about weakly.
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All he was aware of now were ants crawling up the leg on an endless march towards the wound.
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A million red ants crawling inside a silk sheet, that was what I should have seen.
bed
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She crawled out of bed , peered into the mirror, and gave a small groan.
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He was so tired his bones ached; but he crawled out of bed , put on his pants and watch.
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A second slab of beef has crawled out of bed and found his doorknob.
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Once, a few years ago, his father had broken into the house and crawled into his bed .
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It would be wonderful to crawl into bed , to ask Matron for an aspirin.
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She snapped him up as soon as he finished the sausage she fed him and he crawled into her bed crying.
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She crawled on to the bed and hugged herself like a child with no one there to bring comfort.
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Jen came out of the bathroom, dressed in a shirt this time, and crawled into bed alongside me.
floor
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Sobbing, gasping for breath, she began to crawl across the floor .
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She crawled across the floor in the darkness, her body drenched in sweat, her eyes stinging from all the smoke.
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She fell down on her knees and began crawling across the floor .
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All I can remember is crawling around the floor trying to get away from her.
hand
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She peered out and saw him crawling on hands and knees along the ledge.
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She crawled on her hands and knees.
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He crawled on hand and knees across the landing, the ancient boards creaking beneath him.
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Nuri was on the beach, waiting, when I crawled up on my hands and knees.
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A small baby crawled out on its hands and knees, its face covered in grime.
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A climber literally crawls , hand over hand, up a vertical face, sinking the ax with every step.
place
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The place was crawling with kids - bundles, toddlers, nippers, loping adolescents.
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He left the place quickly, embarrassment crawling up his neck as he found his way to the door.
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The place was crawling with closets, and not a thing worth stealing in any of them.
skin
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Despite the heat of the sun, her skin was crawling with goosepimples.
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The woman made his skin crawl .
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You may even feel your skin crawling after a difficult meeting or with the impact of crowds of people.
wall
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Water rose up through the floorboards; blackening fungus crawled over the walls .
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The rats eat that poison, then they crawl into your walls and die.
woodwork
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They could smell a funeral a mile off, and out they crawled , out of the woodwork .
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There are wallabies crawling out of the woodwork .
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Just the club cashing in with the sad sheep crawling out of the woodwork everywhere.
worm
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The larvae of red worms crawl up the blades of grass and are eaten by horses.
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He played an almost extinct worm crawling through dead leaves.
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Or let the worms crawl on dry newspaper and listen to them carefully.
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The worms crawl on to the sticks, which can then be picked up and dipped directly into the fry tank.
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The root gives off a chemical which incites the worms to hatch and crawl into it.
■ VERB
begin
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Sobbing, gasping for breath, she began to crawl across the floor.
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After Smitty had gone out, Converse began to crawl to-ward the bathroom door.
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He began to crawl uncertainly around.
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He covered himself with a blanket that suddenly seemed to move on its own-an army of insects began crawling over his skin.
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She began to crawl and he almost lost her.
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Not until they come down will people begin to crawl out from under their loads of debt.
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She fell down on her knees and began crawling across the floor.
manage
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A blast of air knocked him over but he managed to crawl through a tunnel under Euston Road.
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Last he heard, only one boy had dropped to the ground and managed to crawl away.
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Mr Duddy spent a day stuck on the sheer sides of the cone before managing to crawl out on his own.
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Even drunks at parties manage to crawl off the mats to be ill.
start
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He sent Charles back to start crawling .
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Two other wounded men and myself started crawling farther.
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Then he started crawling toward a parking sign.
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This time, I stayed down and started crawling .
try
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He tried to crawl up her and she screamed and fell over.
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The three of us shrieked hysterically as one lobster tried to crawl his way out up the sides.
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Sergeant Alan King died after being stabbed repeatedly by Vernage as he tried to crawl to safety.
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Seeing the video, she tried to crawl into the television set, then dove, hysterical, under the bed.
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Then you will easily see any you may have dropped which are trying to crawl away.
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Down below on the staircase, the thing that had been Farley Peters was trying to crawl up the steps towards him.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be climbing/crawling (up) the walls
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Realizes he is moving in her desperately, as if he is climbing the walls of a closed building.
crawl/come out of the woodwork
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Creativity was coming out of the woodwork .
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There are wallabies crawling out of the woodwork .
make sb's flesh creep/crawl
make sb's skin crawl
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The thought of him touching me just makes my skin crawl.
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It made her skin crawl, the deference.
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The woman made his skin crawl.
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They make the skin crawl like it is on fire, even as it is bathed in sweat.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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It took several hours to drive the 50 miles, crawling along through the snow.
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The old Buick barely managed to crawl up the hill.
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We sat in the car with the radio on, crawling along behind a long line of other cars.
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When did Sam start crawling?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Fearful, yet inquisitive, Moon-Watcher crawled out on to the edge of the cave and peered down the face of the cliff.
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Glover would crawl out after him on the roof at the top of the house and look down on the lake.
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It terrified her to think that the whole riddled mountain crawled with men like that one.
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Miguel crawled up the street slowly, slipping into a parking spot a block down from the fire.
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She crawled out of bed, peered into the mirror, and gave a small groan.
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They also stop insects crawling up the waste pipes.
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They seemed to be crawling in the tunnel for a lifetime before they found another grille.
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You either hear this truth or you crawl along the ground looking for worms.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
pub
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Drinkers Plan: The traditional pub crawl doesn't have to be another dreary Friday night wander.
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The last bar on my pub crawl is the most contentious.
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But it was more than just a pub crawl .
skin
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It made her skin crawl , the deference.
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They make the skin crawl like it is on fire, even as it is bathed in sweat.
space
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The first is the crawl space beneath any suspended timber floors, where rot can quickly develop unless ventilation is good.
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Teacher Song, a slender man, fit easily into the crawl space .
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Chang-Kyu would hide in the crawl space under the floor.
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Under most floors were dirt crawl spaces that could be used for storage.
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Hindered by scolding women and jeering men, the soldiers lowered themselves into the cramped crawl spaces .
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Q.. The tub drain and trap under a bathroom and over a crawl space froze last winter.
■ VERB
make
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But it was Gerry Conlon's account of being interrogated after the Guildford bombings that made the scalp crawl .
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It made her skin crawl , the deference.
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They make the skin crawl like it is on fire, even as it is bathed in sweat.
slow
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It seemed to take for ever, slowing to a crawl as it drew parallel with him.
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Industrial expansion had slowed to a crawl .
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Adam slowed to a crawl , as if stopping for him.
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And discussions over the construction of theme parks and movie theaters slowed to a crawl .
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Sometimes when the movie slows to a crawl , they chain-smoke while wearing hats.
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Here, though, time slows to a crawl .
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The ball just seemed to slow down and crawl through the air....
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
crawl/come out of the woodwork
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Creativity was coming out of the woodwork .
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There are wallabies crawling out of the woodwork .
make sb's flesh creep/crawl
make sb's skin crawl
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The thought of him touching me just makes my skin crawl.
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It made her skin crawl, the deference.
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The woman made his skin crawl.
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They make the skin crawl like it is on fire, even as it is bathed in sweat.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Traffic has slowed to a crawl .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Her scissors move through the material like a swimmer doing crawl , among the archipelago of tissue paper.
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The entrance is dry but soon becomes low, developing into a crawl where the stream from Lower Long Churn is admitted.
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We go back in a creepy crawl up the trail, same scenario.