noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a desk calculator (= a big one for using on a desk )
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He had a big fancy desk calculator.
a desk/table/dresser etc drawer
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The passports are in my desk drawer.
a table/desk/bedside lamp
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He read by the light of the bedside lamp.
an advice centre/service/desk/bureau
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They offer a 24-hour advice service to customers.
cash desk
check-in desk
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the check-in desk
city desk
desk clerk
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Leave the keys with the desk clerk .
desk clerk
desk job
desk jockey
desk tidy
front desk
help desk
hot desk
writing desk
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
front
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The unit is controlled from the front desk and it is programmed to accept cards with the correct codes.
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They are used to keep track of what happens in the classrooms and at the front desk .
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I marched to the front desk and enquired the price of single room for one night.
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Economy hotels offer clean, comfortable rooms and front desk services without costly extras like restaurants and room service.
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As front desk personnel come and go, training and retraining is crucial for the daily success of any system.
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A large black man sat behind the front desk with his sleeves rolled up.
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After checking in and taking a shower, I tried to ring Merrit from the front desk .
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Soon the big fellow did the same, fixing his trousers even as he passed the front desk with wet face averted.
large
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Evans looked pleased with himself as he settled behind his large antique desk .
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A large desk was opposite her, cluttered with paper, a typewriter and pencils.
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She sat in a small, windowless cubicle behind a large desk with five telephones in front of her.
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At one end stood a large desk .
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He sat at a large desk covered with papers, journals, medical books, a portable typewriter pushed to one end.
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The large mahogany writing desk was immaculately tidy.
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He is sitting behind his large desk and does not gesture you to sit.
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To 1982 again, to the high-ceilinged room in east Beirut where Pierre Gemayel sits behind his large oak desk .
■ NOUN
cash
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In a restaurant that place was the cash desk .
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Loretta was paying for the tickets at the cash desk when she felt a hand on her shoulder.
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He had planned to hold up the cash desk of an Oxford Street store.
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I paid the woman at the cash desk and smiled at her.
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Computer tags carry a coded message which the computer at the cash desk can read.
clerk
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The desk clerk was a worried, grey-haired man with steel-rimmed glasses and a medal.
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Al Perry, Hotel Congress desk clerk .
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There was no desk clerk in the notebook.
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On the third night, she went up ahead while he uncorked a bottle and shared it with the desk clerk .
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The same desk clerk was on duty when Kragan left the hotel two hours later, at nine in the evening.
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It had to be the desk clerk .
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At the time, he said, Jackson was working as a desk clerk at the hotel.
drawer
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Or at a pinch he might be able to squeeze himself into the desk drawer and hide.
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He kept a gun in his desk drawer at the office and one night I took it out and shot him.
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He opened the desk drawer and took out a page at random.
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Keep the paper in a desk drawer or folder.
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Taking his magnifying glass from a desk drawer , he fell upon the plans and scrutinized each one intently without speaking.
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Notebooks filled margin to margin with my tiny scrawl spill out-of the desk drawers .
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There was a silver cigarette lighter in the desk drawer , he remembered, rarely used now that he'd almost given up.
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Put a copy in your locked desk drawer and another in the secret compartment of your briefcase.
help
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Upon contacting the help desk , your call will be logged and you will be asked to provide information concerning the problem.
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By and large, Windows 95 fixes this problem, which is what your help desk is probably talking about.
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In any organisation the most active and critical area is the computer support help desk .
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A help desk provides immediate quotations and on the spot cover if required.
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CustomerQ integrates customer support, call tracking, help desk and product defect tracking in a single module that includes Informix.
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These include communication the corporate help desk , probably with the help of remote diagnostic probes.
job
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A police surgeon had advised him to find a desk job within the force, but none had been available.
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Men who make a living working with their hands tend to believe the myth more than men with desk jobs .
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And it's a desk job at a moderate salary in London terms.
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You could find them working in the crime laboratory, the radio room, in desk jobs in headquarters.
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Now that he was to become a father, Stewart hoped for an 055 desk job in Washington.
lamp
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An ideal gift for any student is an adjustable desk lamp , the more flexible the better.
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The desk lamp with an emerald-green shade and small prints of Degas' dancers were the only distinctive features of the room.
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There was a shaded desk lamp by the telephone, and that was it.
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From the desk lamp , glassy nuclei of brightness followed the words he wrote.
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The daylight did not penetrate far into the room where only his desk lamp was lit.
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In the bald white light of my desk lamp I took another look-and there were more eggs now than before.
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It is operated by the light from an ordinary desk lamp to provide an excellent level of illumination at its screen.
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I switched the desk lamp off, and sat in darkness.
news
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This can cause problems on the news desk and does not create a very good impression.
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But try telling that to the news desk .
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That evening, Scott took his place at the news desk and ran an eye over his script.
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Contacts: News editors and news desk reporters, picture editors, specialist editors and correspondents.
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I told the news desk they should send some one else, one of the junior reporters.
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When he was taken ill, I ran the news desk .
reception
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Dragging her mind back to the matter in hand, and mumbling apologies, she wormed her way to the reception desk .
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A recent high-school graduate sat at the reception desk .
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The two women behind the reception desk avoided her eye.
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I worked reception desk and switchboard.
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And with this in mind she returned to the reception desk to ask Stella if she could use the phone.
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As I walked through the door one of the two book-end bouncers began to saunter over to the reception desk .
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The foyer, too, was empty as she walked across it, nodding to the girl behind the reception desk .
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I wasn't sure if that girl at the reception desk understood my message when I asked you to phone me.
top
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Three feet of desk top separated them.
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The desk top had a brown wood-grain Formica finish.
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She was struggling to reach the bell under her desk top .
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It always banged on the desk top , each morning, before he remembered to tuck it below his tie.
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As he waited for it to be answered he drummed lightly on the desk top .
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For example, the underlying metaphor for the working space on the screen, is a desk top .
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They are quiet and clean, fit on a desk top and will soon match the quality of print produced by typesetting.
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Dalgliesh saw that his desk top was almost clear.
■ VERB
leave
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They have to clock out when leaving their desk and clock back in before returning.
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Our chairman, John Gutfreund, left his desk at the head of the trading floor and went for a walk.
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The tape she left on the desk .
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Every week we practice leaving our desks quickly, crossing our arms over our heads, lying still on the classroom floor.
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For one thing this would prevent people from leaving their desks to find a more private area where they can light up.
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A week into his job, he found a cartoon left anonymously on his desk .
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They left their writing desks and poured into the streets, led by Master Ferrebourg himself.
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By this means, scholars from other universities world-wide will have improved access to the library's collections without leaving their desks .
lie
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He opened his diary which was lying on his desk and checked by name against his written entry.
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He picked up the file that lay on the desk and flipped it open.
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A long envelope from personnel relations lay on my desk with my name typed on it in bold print.
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For four weeks I let it lie on my desk , unwilling to take the final step.
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His hands trembled, lying on the desk .
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Rust pointed to it lying on his desk .
move
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Emily moved to the desk and sat down, spreading the pages of figures out before her.
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Ralph drew back his window curtain, moved his desk so that the sun kept his tea warm.
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Kate saw his bulky form moving towards her desk .
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With mounting excitement which neither betrayed they moved over to the desk and peered intently at the blotter.
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By the time she came back Sylvia had moved her desk and found a new best friend.
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As he moved from his desk he slipped and spattered the page with blots.
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I have known a life transformed simply by moving a desk to a more advantageous position.
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She moved behind the desk towards him.
reach
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The passenger must pass through a security gate before reaching the check-in desk .
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Each piece of legislation therefore still faces pitfalls before either reaches the president's desk for signature.
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He reached into his desk and pulled out a current code manual.
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Under current law, the president is required to either sign or veto in its entirety any legislation that reaches his desk .
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Another batch of letters has reached my desk , some pleading, others offering help to my more unfortunate patients.
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He agreed to restore the money once a testing bill he supported reached his desk .
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He reached across his desk to a small black metal box and triggered a switch.
return
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He returned to his desk and checked the names of the fourteen banks.
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Solution Use the computer in company library then return to desk to check voice mail every hour or two.
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And with this in mind she returned to the reception desk to ask Stella if she could use the phone.
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It would be a pleasure to return to one's desk in Septuagint College and resume one's ordinary work.
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The woman had not yet returned to the desk .
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He returned to his desk and sat down.
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Southworth returned to his desk , taking the brandy with him.
seat
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She seated herself at the desk , relocated a floral display and smiled as the first patient walked into the room.
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Because I am seated at that very desk !
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In his mind's eye, Vologsky could see Major Tzann seated at his desk , holding it between trembling fingers.
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And they will be seated there at that desk .
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The General was seated at his desk .
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He was seated at a desk in front of an office with caged windows.
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Canon Wheeler was seated at his enormous desk in front of the ghastly picture of Marsyas.
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He shot Mark Kelley, seated at a nearby desk , three times in the face.
sit
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He sat at a large desk covered with papers, journals, medical books, a portable typewriter pushed to one end.
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Blue goes to his office every day and sits at his desk , waiting for something to happen.
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Bogle himself sits at the desk by the door and takes the money.
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So... you make a pot of coffee, boot up the computer, and sit at your desk .
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As he sat at his desk , flicking through pieces of paper, it suddenly struck him that Jakowski really was dead.
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Geoff wanted to sit at the head desk and be the man right off.
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Julia sat on the desk and swung her legs.
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Marsha sits at her office desk , casually dressed, as usual.
sitting
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This was Mr Ross's office and he was sitting behind a desk .
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He was sitting at his desk in the study when he happened to glance up and look out the window.
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Michele was sitting behind a leather-topped desk .
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You notice a coworker sitting at her desk flipping through some papers.
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He is sitting behind his large desk and does not gesture you to sit.
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A recent letter from the senate of a local liberal arts college is sitting on my desk .
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He was sitting behind the big desk in his office when the telephone rang.
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They feel comfortable sitting behind a desk .
stand
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By eleven o'clock I was standing in front of Patterson's desk laying down the law.
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We stand around his desk , cursing Carolyn.
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They were standing at the desk by now and the girl was working on the bill.
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Pretend that the reader is standing by your desk .
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The unit's underside is also well constructed, standing fast on a desk thanks to six strong non-slip feet.
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Finally, unable to stomach the task anymore, Kim stood up from his desk and walked out of the room.
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A few seconds later, William stands gloomily behind the desk .
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Horton, standing at the desk when Truitte walked in, greeted him warmly.
trade
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The government trading desk was a counterpoint to the visible gluttony and ethnicity of the mortgage department.
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The mortgage trading desk evolved from corner shop to supermarket.
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But on the municipal trading desk Samuels could not be touched.
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They arrived at the Salomon Brothers mortgage trading desk hat in hand.
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The good news was he had landed a plum job on the mortgage trading desk .
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Banks with international operations, securities trading desks and other non-lending businesses fared best.
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The mortgage trading desks on 4I were between the elevators and the corner in which I had chosen to hide.
walk
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Keith walks to his desk at the front of the room.
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We went inside and walked up to the desk .
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She walked to the desk and put down the vase and by the time she had done this Gabriel was gone.
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Then Bernstein was walking back to his desk with the first page of the story; soon he was typing.
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With a thoughtful look Goebbels walked back to his desk .
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She walks back to her desk , takes out a large yellow box of chocolates and passes them around the room.
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Stone stood up and walked slowly round the desk .
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Then he walked back to his desk in the room and turned to face me again.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
desk/car/sink tidy
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A nurse was seated at the reception desk .
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Lloyd is running the sports desk .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Conway's secretary, Marie, was sitting at a desk .
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He pulled the crumpled bills from his shirt pocket and dropped them on the desk .
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His hunched figure padded across to the desk in the bay and Swod gestured for the police officer to sit down.
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If I had any class at all, I would get up from this desk and go buy bagels.
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Lucy Lane was sitting at the desk , turning the pages of a loose-leaf manuscript file.
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Or at a pinch he might be able to squeeze himself into the desk drawer and hide.
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The desk floated through the door into the hallway.
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The people placed on other desks were permitted to call themselves salesmen or traders.