I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a dance tune
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The DJ played some bouncy dance tunes.
a film/music/dance/arts festival
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The movie won an award at the Cannes Film Festival.
a writing/painting/dancing etc competition
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Greg won the school public-speaking competition.
ballroom dancing
barn dance
belly dance
classical ballet/dance etc
contemporary art/music/dance
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Each year there is a contemporary music festival in November.
country dancing
dance band
dance floor
dance hall
dinner dance
fitness/dance/fashion etc craze
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The jogging craze began in the 1970s.
folk dance
lap dancing
line dancing
morris dancing
pole dancing
sb's eyes twinkle/dance with mischief (= they show that someone wants to cause trouble, play tricks etc )
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Leo nodded, his eyes shining with mischief.
square dance
Strictly Come Dancing
sword dance
table dancing
tap dancing
war dance
wear sth to a party/a dance/an interview etc
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I’m wearing a scarlet dress to the party.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
classical
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The above examples are all slightly parodied versions of classical dance steps.
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Olivia Rojo boasts more than two decades of classical dance training.
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It has evolved from the simplest folk through the mannered court and finally to the expert classical dance .
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Yet Ashton found ways of so moulding classical dance that the ladies even danced sur les pointes in so Edwardian a setting.
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Technical characteristics Classical dance in its purest form requires symmetry and balance.
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A delightful repertoire of contemporary &038; classical dance &038; music.
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If choreographers have had training in classical dance , they already have a large vocabulary of movement on which to call.
contemporary
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Over a three-month period, opera attracted 1 percent of the population but ballet and contemporary dance fewer than 1 percent.
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A delightful repertoire of contemporary &038; classical dance &038; music.
folk
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The event will be followed by a Pan-Orthodox folk dance celebration.
little
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Take your little partner and dance and sing: anything from waltzes to tangos, nursery rhymes to blues and rock.
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The vain girl did a little dance in them, but when she tried to stop, the shoes kept on dancing.
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I looked at Harvey, but he was staring at his feet which twitched for another little dance .
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The first section of the piece initially called for little formal dance movement.
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As he stepped out of the elevator and strode towards her, she felt her heartbeat do a funny little dance .
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Nicky Black did a little cold-day dance , hands in pockets, giving a buck-tooth grin.
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He was still looking down and still doing a little dance .
merry
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Willie leads his Man a merry dance at any party, chasing any woman in sight.
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But he led the field a merry dance until being overhauled inside the final furlong.
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Against all forecasts, against all evidence, the little guy sometimes leads the invincible giant a merry dance .
modern
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The fact that all the acts are the same couple of blokes is just the way it is in modern dance .
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At one point Ronald was chasing me and I was pulling out all my modern dance technique.
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In some ways these two -- one from modern dance , the other from rock music -- are an odd match.
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Now Alvin set about creating in earnest his groundbreaking modern dance repertory company.
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I believe she was studying modern dance and had been a pupil of Mary Wigman, or of one of her disciples.
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He was more comfortable with the straight forward physicality of another kind of modern dance that Crumb showed him.
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One New York season or performance a year tended to be the rule for modern dance in the 1950s.
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The modern dance choreographer Lucas Hoving helped performers learn how to make dances.
ritual
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The swords may have been ceremonial, or they may have been used in an acrobatic ritual sword dance .
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Other heroic figures which figure in the monthly ritual dances are equipped in the same way.
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Viv Richards shows his reaction at Gower's exit as the ritual dance begins.
square
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Red notebook Bed linen Samba square dance double duvet cover; pillowcase.
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Then everything reverses, as in a square dance .
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It may be only a matter of time before goals trigger outbreaks of mass aerobics and the odd square dance .
traditional
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Just how traditional the dances are is a matter for debate.
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Performances will include traditional harvest dance processions around the campus, along with explanations about the background of Kwanzaa.
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A show to bring warmth to your heart, a large measure of live music with traditional dance circle steps.
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Secondly the traditional dances and customs of a particular country that can give local colour and atmosphere to a plot or theme.
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This includes a traditional waltz dance show at the Cafe Hubner, followed by dinner in the famous wine village of Grinzing.
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Every country has its own way of performing the traditional dances which go hand in hand with certain musical characteristics.
■ NOUN
band
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Trumpet players in dance bands possess many different sorts of mutes with a corresponding number of resultant timbres.
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Mart Kenney was a perfectionist, and his high standards set an example for scores of dance bands across the country.
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Radio brought entertainment to a mass audience, in particular light musical entertainment: it produced the age of the great dance bands .
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The dance band is playing, sounds like a military tune, certainly not like the local dances back home.
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The first dance band at the Show Room was made up of people in the dale and they called themselves the Arcadians.
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This gives us an unbalanced picture of dance band and jazz arrangements today.
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They're a dance band with a message, pleasure politicians with some Big Ideas.
barn
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This will be followed by an evening barn dance .
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Central Birmingham Group held a barn dance which raised £200; door-to-door the group collected £1,300.
class
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The center also offers tap and ballroom dance classes , yoga and Chairobics, which is a low-impact exercise program.
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Others spoke of a lifetime of dance classes .
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The sessions started with a modern dance class as a warm-up.
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I know he had a dance class earlier, and he probably went to Topanga to surf.
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There was no extra money for amenities, even such necessary-seeming ones as dance classes .
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Holtz had suggested offering dance classes as a way of establishing both the center and the Ailey company.
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Tap dance classes were not an enjoyable experience for a shy and introverted child.
club
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Club promotion reflects the importance of dance clubs and the contribution they make towards a record's popularity.
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Nor is it a dance club , even though there is a dance floor and occasionally, live music.
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Gospel music has also become a vibrant part of the sound at the hippest dance clubs .
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Indeed, many Boston dance clubs find that fashion shows are their most popular events.
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The pressure to keep up with the passing dance club trends is rather transparent on some tracks.
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The investigations give a glimpse into the problems the Sheriff's Office had with policing the popular dance club .
company
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My spare time is spent watching the professional dance companies come through New York.
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Read in studio A new dance company has been formed to give a boost to the performing arts outside London.
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He could be sloppy about the details of running a dance company .
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Blueprint for success ... a New dance company starts with a flourish.
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Theatre groups, artists, dance companies-every venue is at risk.
dinner
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Her president's reception and dinner dance tomorrow night launches the main weekend of events.
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The Harp Hotel Àlacarte, tabled'hôte and bar snacks. Dinner dance on Saturdays.
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In August Sarah was invited to a dinner dance by a commercial traveller who came to the shop.
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Anne thought often about Sarah and her sophisticated partner on the Saturday night of the dinner dance .
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Cut it down, dye it red and press it into service for that next dinner dance ?
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The season went well and the club recently held its presentation dinner dance where the trophies were awarded.
floor
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Enjoys windsurfing, working out at the gym and strutting his funky stuff on the dance floor .
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When Jack put a foot on the dance floor , some, then all couples stopped and the band trailed off.
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In the big middle room was a dance floor , with colored lights and a few gook couples doing the fox-trot.
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Putting her glass on the bar, she went on to the dance floor with him.
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With two conflicting styles of dancing taking place simultaneously on sometimes crowded dance floors , collisions are bound to happen.
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The music was loud and the dance floor full.
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I was running around the dance floor like a maniac.
hall
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The changing styles in the fifties and sixties affected this great dance hall like all the rest.
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In dance halls people were dancing the shimmy, the fox-trot, the Charleston.
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I walked inside the dance hall .
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When she talked to the current victims, she found they were all patrons of two very popular country music dance halls .
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On Saturdays in those Isle of Arran summers the picture palace became the dance hall .
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Here he encountered the bars and loose women and dance halls that would soon make him a famous artist.
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Here the taxi dance hall represented little more than clandestine prostitution.
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Age Concern runs tea dances , as do some local authorities, hotels and dance halls .
line
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A bright yellow strip of tape separated the country-western ballroom dancers from the line dance crowd.
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There is music -- western, of course -- and a line dance by the staff every 40 minutes.
music
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Until his accident, Rodrigo was the boom of 2000, provider of happy, slightly mindless dance music .
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When Al Jourgensen started the band in 1981, Ministry made synthesized dance music .
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Both zither and dance music are played once a week.
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The show will feature dance music by Bach, waltzes by Strauss and Tchaikovsky, and a play-along piece.
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Previously naff companies are suddenly revamping their image by involving themselves in dance music .
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At times the Crown Prince swapped the staid dance music for rather, more lively rock and roll.
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Later releases found her tripping nonchalantly through country &038; western, rock and dance music .
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When the dance music starts they play games.
routine
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No experience is necessary and all dance routines will be taught by the club's choreographer.
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It's a very young role and she has to lead the gypsy dance routine .
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Suzi Hoflin came in with two of her pupils and put Ingrid through a reasonable enough gypsy dance routine .
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To the outsider the movements of a kata resemble a dance routine .
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She'd rehearsed a number at her house with our choreographer the evening before, a whole dance routine .
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Three o'clock in the morning, bopping through a weird limb-jerking dance routine , and she looks like a child at playschool.
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My costume fits O.K.; the tight velvet pants worked well in the dance routine work-through this morning.
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I've been practising this mega dance routine .
scene
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Their original intentions were to break up the monotony of the London dance scene and inject a little humour and imagination.
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At 16, Williams dropped out of school to sing in nightclubs and the flourishing dance scene at South Side social clubs.
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He had scribbled notes to himself back in Los Angeles about baptismal dance scenes .
tap
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Every night I come in and tap dance in costumes.
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Where, in brief, was tap dance on the eve of millennium?
troupe
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A Chechenlanguage theater and national Vaikakhk dance troupe began work.
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No previous dance troupe manager had attacked the entertainment world so vigorously.
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Merce Cunningham founded his dance troupe at Black Mountain.
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Improvisation and ingenuity, not tradition, are the backbone of a unique dance troupe that is becoming a Tucson favorite.
■ VERB
begin
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Then Tranmere began their rain dance and the revival began.
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Now began an elaborate shadow dance .
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Angrily, she thrust herself away from the bedpost and her hands began again their energetic dance on the brightening wood.
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The two children began a fast stamping dance around and around, the rescued ball held aloft in triumph.
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Diana passed her interview and, in the spring term, began at the Vacani dance studio on the Brompton Road.
do
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Every third Tuesday they do the devil dance or the witch sniffing or whatever you want to call it there.
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A wide receiver does the same dance in the end zone and draws a penalty.
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Then he, Michele, and Romy do an interpretive victory dance for their former classmates.
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The vain girl did a little dance in them, but when she tried to stop, the shoes kept on dancing.
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If that friend has Netscape animation, the sonnet will do a wavy dance .
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Any family has to do its intricate dance together for at least twenty years and sometimes longer.
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He did a dance of his own after the shot went in.
hold
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The Spencers held a dance that weekend in his honour and it was noticeable that Sarah was enthusiastic in her attentions.
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Processions took place, sacrifices were held with dances and Song, there was general rejoicing.
lead
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It's a very young role and she has to lead the gypsy dance routine.
perform
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Bunched tightly together by older men in animal skins and carrying spears, they perform a ceremonial dance to insistent drumming.
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In the procession from Athens, as the mystae came over a bridge, people impersonating BAubo performed lewd dances before them.
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He began to run about in front of her, to turn, to perform grotesque dance movements that were not without some grace.
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The female of the species performs her mating dance .
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Martina and I performed the uncertain dance of people parting, with its limited steps.
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She performs a ritualised dance that tells the other bees the distance, direction, and quality of the food.
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Verrucas Children now perform dance and gymnastics lessons in bare feet.
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In 1990 I noticed in my community tank, a pair of Cardinal tetras performing their spawning dance .
play
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Lawrence was a big fifteen-year-old, and sometimes made money playing for dances in the Strasburg pool hall.
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Fischer was playing in dance studios, working weekends in fox-trot bands.
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Tom turned the radio on to a station that played dance music.
sing
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He says they get to sing and dance , it's fun.
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I have also seen them sing and dance .
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We like to sing and dance , we like to combine both of them.
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This rat wanted to eat ropes the way Gene Kelly wanted to sing and dance .
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They will drink, shout, sing and dance .
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Will mankind, even under advanced capitalism, let alone any future more liberated society, ever cease to sing and dance ?
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Publicity officer Elizabeth Cooper said the character does not have to sing or dance .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a song and dance (about sth)
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Barney, he had these two sons - tried to set up a song and dance act.
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But to the children of Gloucestershire, it's just making a song and dance about having fun.
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I think most conductors would have stopped and made a song and dance.
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If she had wanted to stay she'd have made a song and dance, but it was better to move.
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Look here, there's no need to make a song and dance of it.
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This theme has a curious persistence, but one does not need a song and dance about it.
dance/sing/cook etc up a storm
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She danced up a storm at an Alexandria, Va., club where the Desperadoes played right after the election.
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They are blowing trumpets singing up a storm and waving as they walk past us.
lead sb a merry old dance/a right old dance
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Dances used to be held in the church hall at least once a month.
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Alan took Amy to the dance last weekend.
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Do you want to go to the dance on Saturday night?
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Hungarian folk dances
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I prefer old-fashioned dances like the waltz or the tango.
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May I have the next dance ?
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school dances
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The Society are holding their 15th anniversary dinner dance at the Broomshill Hotel.
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The surprise hit of that summer was 'Macarena', which was also a dance craze.
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Twyla Tharpe's dance troupe
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As the dance finished we curtsied again and the Duke of Edinburgh stopped to congratulate us.
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Martina and I performed the uncertain dance of people parting, with its limited steps.
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Most black dance students of the time tended to be steered by well-meaning teachers into the more welcoming field of modern dance.
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The dance was loneliness and anguish laid bare.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
about
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Now I come to think about it, that pesky Lad was dancing about somewhere outside.
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When I still refused, they gave their war cry and began dancing about to frighten me.
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He lit a cigarette and gazed at the page of his book until the printed words ceased to dance about .
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Then I just forgot about dancing for good.
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It danced about briefly on my retinas, then disappeared.
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The light danced about , we were above the thin cloud line and suddenly my pains had gone.
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They also dance about possible new nest sites, and about water sources when water is needed to cool down the nest.
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His opponent was dancing about in a neutral corner, one eye on his quarry.
around
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Ben danced around them, still barking.
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He'd watch him dance around the room emitting stifled screams.
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I remember several moments when the trumpets played and rays of heavenly light danced around my children's heads.
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He danced around the area, shaking an Ascon, a gourd filled with snake vertebrae.
round
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It moved sinuously, dancing round its adversary, thrusting with a slender spear and protecting itself gracefully with a brightly-polished shield.
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I used to dance round them and sing at the top of my voice.
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Those watching joined hands and danced round the bonfire amid an air of frenzied excitement.
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The day will include dancing round the maypole by Stokesley Primary School.
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He could hardly dance round with him too, so he had allowed the Duke one stately dance and then reclaimed him.
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They made their fire on the sand and danced round it.
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She danced round the bigger girl, getting a few scratches down the back of her suit, even drawing some blood.
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You dance round and round in a circle until ... Well, everybody knows what happens in the end.
to
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He finds bands to dance to.
together
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It was natural to dance together .
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Just a minute ago we were dancing together .
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For a start, I smelt your spoor on her when we danced together at the wedding.
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I think we not only have enjoyed dancing together but have both been stalling because we are kind of scared.
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We had danced together at the Music Box while her boyfriend was away at college.
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We went to the dance floor and danced together , the three of us.
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On the other hand, I remember seeing them dancing together at a ball shortly before the birth of Prince William.
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We first danced together under Jeff Ritcher back in the seventies.
■ NOUN
ballroom
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First ballroom dancing , then golf, then polo and now chess.
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If a man has a weakness, besides an apprehension of people who enjoy ballroom dancing , it is gadgets.
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The children were encouraged to take ballroom and folk dancing as part of their physical training curriculum.
band
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The Stanford crowd surges on to the floor, waving banners, dancing to the band , inching forward to high-five the players.
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From three strategically located stages, well-known musical groups provide a dancing beat while roving bands serenade the crowd.
belly
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My belly danced with fear, in spite of the food I had just eaten.
floor
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As large a group as can fit has gathered in the available floor space to dance .
folk
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The children were encouraged to take ballroom and folk dancing as part of their physical training curriculum.
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Each evening at Skei there will special events such as folk dancing .
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Although traditional, these instruments are still used to accompany folk dances today.
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Similarly, she arranged and encouraged folk dancing groups in the town, monthly reading circles and visits to theatres.
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The participants in folk dance can and certainly do show elation.
girl
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It's very hard to ask the girl you adore to dance if you know your hands are running like taps.
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The king surmised the girls were dancing their shoes to bits and put out a general announcement to the kingdom.
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Yet it is the head movements of the young girl as she dances to Pie Jesu that are so telling.
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That night he went again and watched six girls dance in the moonlight.
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Dangerfield selected the thinnest girl and began dancing a waltz to the hymn-tune.
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A girl his age was dancing a jig to the music.
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A couple of girls danced enthusiastically and several others tapped their feet.
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Soon all the girls were dancing .
head
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The images swirled and danced in her head like figures around a maypole.
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Some managers come away from virtual reality demonstrations with unhealthy visions of holograms dancing in their heads .
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And though these weep Over our harms, who's to know Where their feet dance while their heads sleep?
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With visions of organ-pipe fruit dancing in our heads , we nod off with giant Kino Peak looming nearby.
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Then the stumbling run across the car park, the lights dancing wildly inside his head .
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She had the oddest desire to touch the dark curls that danced on his head .
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It is a bit like asking how many angels can dance on the head of a pin.
line
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Gary Sheffield and Charles Johnson were leading a line of dancing players upon the podium.
music
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Through shouts and music and dancing we worship the Goddess with joyous bodies.
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There was no music , just dancing .
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I admired and understood his music and we danced very well together.
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From the other side of the footlights, Mulcahey could hear the murmuring beneath the noise of the music and the dancing .
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Almost always the crossing of boundaries between the sexes occurred during ecstatic rites involving loud music and wild dancing processions.
night
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Some nights I dance , but when I am in Cannes then I can detect.
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For three days and nights she danced in the streets with the crowd.
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They were also expected to work as crew or technicians even on nights they danced .
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But even they would be shocked at the idea of staying up all night dancing or taking drugs.
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One night , the dancing seemed to roll up like a wave and crash into our table.
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The bride, rising higher and higher out of her wedding dress as the night went on, danced all by herself.
people
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But I don't want to sing about football results or importune people to dance .
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Then she sat down upon a settee and watched the people dance .
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The people with her neither danced nor sang.
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The Hyatt Regency walkways collapsed while several hundred people were dancing on them.
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The floor had collapsed - people danced a good deal harder in those days, as the Secretary of State will no doubt remember.
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I remembered the people dancing in the streets when the dictator Ershad was deposed in 1990.
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In dance halls people were dancing the shimmy, the fox-trot, the Charleston.
song
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But what may have been problematic to the feet was pure pleasure to the ear, more languid song than lilting dance .
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Despite the wealth of songs and the dancing , despite the sacred rituals, the culture is fragile.
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See what the bridge was like, the one in the children's song where people were dancing and singing for ever.
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The first is a mixed bag of songs and dances , only a couple associated with Rivera.
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This theme has a curious persistence, but one does not need a song and dance about it.
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They sang songs and danced in the temporary bleachers.
tune
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Why did he get the feeling that he and Egbert were dancing to a tune ?
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She was dancing to his tune a little too, and she was uneasily aware of it.
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This is how I like things - me pulling the strings, getting them to dance to my tune .
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But now it dances to a different tune .
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Now he danced to Kirov's tune , without knowing the steps.
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Everyone was in a circle now, dancing to a rollicking tune played by the small band, and changing partners.
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On the surface all is well; but the steps taken are danced to a different tune .
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You must learn to flow with your experience, not make others dance to your tune .
woman
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That woman he had danced with.
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Each time the music began half a dozen unsteady men wandered through the restaurant asking the women to dance .
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The women who danced were beautiful.
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One of them opened up on the table rather too naturally to reveal a beautiful woman dancing in the streets of Rio.
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The woman danced , short and squat, alone behind her closed eyes.
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And in the village of Marlott, following ancient custom, the young women gathered to dance every holiday.
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One of the women danced on top of three tables.
■ VERB
ask
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Each time the music began half a dozen unsteady men wandered through the restaurant asking the women to dance .
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I saw a blond librarian ask him to dance and begin a thing with him.
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That was the first thing that struck me when I asked you to dance .
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A guy Susan knows comes by, and asks her to dance .
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He asked me to dance but I said I couldn't.
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I started to ask her to dance and changed my mind.
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Maggie, Natasha and the rest of the girls went into the hall together and immediately Moira was asked to dance .
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How does a mythical figure ask a lady to dance ?
begin
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They have begun to dance a strange dance.
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As she talked, she began to dance for him.
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Thus linked, with her weapons neutralised, the pair begin to dance .
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He was getting dressed when the building rumbled and the bedroom furniture began to dance .
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Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, chose his own partner too, and began to dance .
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When I still refused, they gave their war cry and began dancing about to frighten me.
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And began to dance; the embrace turned into a dance.
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Finally, an hour late, they arrived, and everyone began dancing .
learn
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Apparently the ballerina Pavlova came here to learn to dance like a swan for the ballet Swan Lake.
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I soon learned to dance , beginning with other girls as partners.
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If the rug is pulled from beneath your feet, learn to dance on a shifting carpet.
sing
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He neither sang nor danced , but with his six or seven years could already dominate both the public and his brothers.
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The people roused the protector spirit of the sun, Nga Bal, by singing , dancing , and playing their instruments.
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It's more than being able to sing and dance .
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But a play interspersed with singing and dancing .
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But Lady Macbeth and Portia were not called upon to sing and dance .
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They sang and shouted and danced and prayed and raised their hands in thanksgiving.
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There was I, singing and dancing all over the place.
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He sings and dances to that one along with Mark Harmon, Curtis-Hall and Elizondo.
start
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Yesterday, he wrote, it started to dance for me again.
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A rock group record had replaced the melancholy singers, and a few couples had started to dance .
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She has a large whisky and ginger and starts to dance again.
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Across the bleachers, the Oregon band puts down its instruments and starts dancing in the aisles.
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Some folks in the back have even started to dance .
want
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The young kids want to dance and have fun, they don't want all heavy stuff.
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This was not because I didn't want to dance but because I had not yet learned how to do it properly.
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Then he asked Primo if he wanted to dance with Deedee and Primo said no.
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He wanted to dance , but could see no opportunity of so doing.
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He wanted to dance with her all night.
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A young female wants to dance and enjoy herself, I know.
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I wanted to dance with him and celebrate the renewal of our friendship.
watch
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Then she sat down upon a settee and watched the people dance .
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Lustful travellers came from all over the world to watch him dance , naked except for a silk cap atop his curls.
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I kept watching you dancing out there.
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As a solitary concession, non-Brahmins were permitted to watch them dance .
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In California Plaza, you can dine while watching the dancing fountain.
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He'd watch him dance around the room emitting stifled screams.
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That night he went again and watched six girls dance in the moonlight.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a song and dance (about sth)
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Barney, he had these two sons - tried to set up a song and dance act.
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But to the children of Gloucestershire, it's just making a song and dance about having fun.
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I think most conductors would have stopped and made a song and dance.
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If she had wanted to stay she'd have made a song and dance, but it was better to move.
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Look here, there's no need to make a song and dance of it.
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This theme has a curious persistence, but one does not need a song and dance about it.
dance/sing/cook etc up a storm
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She danced up a storm at an Alexandria, Va., club where the Desperadoes played right after the election.
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They are blowing trumpets singing up a storm and waving as they walk past us.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Everyone got up and danced.
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I have an old photo of my parents dancing a waltz.
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If you like dancing to drum and bass, come to the Coven on Saturday night.
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Nakamura danced several solos in the "Nutcracker Suite."
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She danced with the San Francisco Ballet for six years.
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The disco starts at 11pm so you can dance the night away.
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Will you dance with me?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A party of enthusiasts danced a quadrille on a flat rock near the middle of the stream.
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He doesn't dance on his own for long.
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She danced and danced, at one point passing by the funeral of the kind old woman.
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She had arrived with her parents some time ago but seemed to be dancing with a matador.
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She only wanted him to go on dancing till he dropped.
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They dance off into the cosmos.
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They responded by dancing with their tongues tucked happily into their cheeks.
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Two or three couples began to dance .