verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
down
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Yanto crouched down and peered under the wagon.
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Not crouched down into the starting blocks with her fingertips pressed so lightly on to the oven red brick track.
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She clambered over the side of the last truck and crouched down out of sight.
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In mid-sentence, they halt, then bend or crouch down and bury their noses in the clusters of blossoms.
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Pausing outside his living room door, he switched on the hall light and crouched down on his knees.
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Well, anyway, you see old Arthur there crouch down , muscles quivering.
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Culley had climbed a small bluff and crouched down on his heels to clear the skyline.
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Sailing inside the Boom By crouching down , you can rise up inside the boom and rest your back on it.
over
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A man, his face washed in an eerie red glow, was crouched over a fruit-machine.
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Left alone, Breeze crouched over the dying embers and tried to realize that this was Christmas Eve.
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I pictured nocturnal gamblers crouching over their cards, sleepless lovers writing letters, nurses sitting by the beds of invalids.
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Vron crouched over a flat mirror.
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A man was crouching over her, a knife in his hand.
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She crouched over the bag, untied the knotted corners and peered in.
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He moved closer, crouching over the boy.
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When he looked again he saw a black shape on the ground, another black shape crouching over it.
there
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It was a bad moment as she crouched there , looking at him.
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It crouched there , as snug as a contented cat, catching the sunshine full on its face.
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Waiting for me down on the sands - a great hulking shape, crouching there , darker than darkness.
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Well, anyway, you see old Arthur there crouch down, muscles quivering.
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The floor was hard and cold and her knees throbbed with pain, but still she crouched there .
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As he screamed, the fleshless man climbed on to his chest and crouched there , the wizened head darting to his throat.
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And then Murtach was crouched there naked in the night, watching him.
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He had a heavy-shouldered hunched look, as if he were crouching there as he lay.
■ NOUN
corner
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The mad girl crouching in the corner with her frock up and the unforgivable substance coming from her mouth.
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He just crouches on the corner at lunchtime and occasionally bays, like a wolf or coyote.
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Mortimer crouched at the corner of the short tunnel through which Benny had entered the previous day.
knee
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Pausing outside his living room door, he switched on the hall light and crouched down on his knees .
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Tony Angotti crouched so quickly his knees popped.
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Prunella crouched on elbows and knees , offering herself to him again.
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Loi and Trondur spent wet hour after wet hour crouched on their knees , trying to refasten the bamboos.
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The figure was hooded, the head crouched low over its knees .
man
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A man was crouching over her, a knife in his hand.
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The pool man was crouching beside the water, one of those men with blond hair and muscles.
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After many days there was a movement behind her and she turned to see a strange-shaped man , crouching , watching.
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Pushing the hair from her eyes, she sat up, staring at the man crouched down beside the fire.
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Two elderly men were crouched over a naked girl who was strapped face down to some form of wooden rack.
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The man ran crouching , hands on his face, into a wall and collapsed.
■ VERB
find
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He was confronted by the 70-year-old owner who found him as he crouched on the stairs.
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Some of the trainees, including Jones, found the female private crouched on the floor, shaking.
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I climbed it in the dark, found Janir and crouched on the mat beside him.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A black cat crouched in the corner.
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I crouched behind a bush as the soldiers marched by.
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The plumber crouched down and looked under the sink.
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There were six people in the clearing, crouching around the campfire.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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I crouched beside him and looked into his wild eyes.
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I gestured to the remaining woodchuck to crouch .
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In the surrounding debris of apartment blocks more militia would be crouched, forming the outer defence ring of the beleaguered stronghold.
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Leif, the beggar, was crouched in the inglenook, stuffing his mouth full of richly sauced venison.
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The sparrows in the ploughland were crouching in terror of the kestrel.