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COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a dying breed (= not many exist anymore )
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Real cowboys are a dying breed .
sb’s last/final/dying wish
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Her last wish was to be buried in her husband’s grave.
the dead and injured/wounded/dying
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Most of the dead and injured had been passengers on the bus.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be dying for sth/to do sth
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He was dying for a cigarette.
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He was dying for a long time, then there was a year of mourning, now we have a new emperor.
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My experience in workshops is that people are dying for more honest forms of communication.
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She was dying for him to leave so she could get on with business.
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The ill are dying for want of medicines.
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To know what they might be dying for.
be dying of hunger/thirst/boredom
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Each note pleaded to love a little longer, longer, as though it was dying of hunger.
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I for one am dying of thirst and hot enough to boil over.
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These huge corporations are dying of boredom caused by the inertia of giantism.
be dying/dropping etc like flies
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Grocer profits While other retailers are dropping like flies , supermarkets are making fat profits.
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Our kids are dropping like flies .
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The men were dying like flies , of fever.
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They should be dropping like flies , but that hasn't been the case.
in the dying minutes/seconds/moments (of sth)
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And, in the dying seconds, Miklosko blocked Smillie's close-range effort.
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Hereford usually crack or collapse in the dying minutes.
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Jason Chandler made certain in the dying minutes of the game, Good Sports winning 2-1.
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One moment of astonishing creativity in the dying seconds on Saturday transported him to the centre of Arsenal's universe.
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Sean Farrell popped in the opener and Danny Allsopp made sure of the points in the dying seconds.
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The World Champion launched a direct attack in the dying moments of the first session.
with your last/dying breath
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With his last breath , he told me he would always love me.
II. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
breath
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The upholder, rueful harbinger of death, Waits with impatience for the dying breath .
breed
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There are still a few of this dying breed around.
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Little old ladies who had relished home baking were a dying breed and the younger generation simply couldn't relate to them.
day
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Though the sinful propensities remain in us till our dying day , they need not be dominant.
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They kept writing to her about retrenchment till her dying day .
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His screams were so terrible that none who ever heard them forgot them till their dying day .
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I thought: that story is relevant to nothing, but I shall remember it until my dying day .
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He would insist to his dying day that an arctic wolf had savaged him.
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He chose Everton over Arsenal and will regret that decision to his dying day .
ember
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Left alone, Breeze crouched over the dying embers and tried to realize that this was Christmas Eve.
fire
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They were sitting on either side of a dying fire .
man
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The Padre found that they even sometimes flew into his throat while he was reading or praying with a dying man .
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The dying man should be surrounded by his friends and family, should make, as it were, a day of it.
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Viktor stood while he blessed the dying man and anointed him.
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The narrow, hot streets dinned with the silver bray of trumpets and the shrieks of dying men and women.
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Magee ignored the crimson puddles and knelt beside the dying man again, this time rolling him over on to his back.
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To disturb and shake a peacefully dying man simply to oblige your friend here who thinks he is a healer?
minutes
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In the dying minutes , full-back, Paul Bodin burst through.
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Jason Chandler made certain in the dying minutes of the game, Good Sports winning 2-1.
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Hereford usually crack or collapse in the dying minutes .
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A hummingbird, taking advantage of the dying minutes of daylight, feeds on flower nectar in the fragrant garden.
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Slaven put the ball in the net in the dying minutes but the goal was disallowed for offside.
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But these batting efforts were overshadowed in the dying minutes , when David Lawrence suffered an horrific injury.
person
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Having worked on providing everything the dying person needs, the next step is to prepare to say goodbye.
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Just as the dying person will make preparation in anticipation, so will the people around.
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It allows the process to start, often with the dying person having a part to play.
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There seems to be no place for a dying person on the surgical wards.
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If there are no relatives or friends, staff should be organised to stay with the dying person .
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Relatives or friends will say that the dying person must have whatever they want.
seconds
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And, in the dying seconds , Miklosko blocked Smillie's close-range effort.
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One moment of astonishing creativity in the dying seconds on Saturday transported him to the centre of Arsenal's universe.
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The decisive goal in the dying seconds of the first half was a beauty.
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Tranmere turned up the heat and Mark Proctor retaliated in the dying seconds of the first half.
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A lightweight bout saved in the dying seconds - Manchester's still got a lot to answer for.
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He survived a hard blow to the jaw in the dying seconds to win 20-10.
wish
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Who was Jenny to deny a man his last dying wish ?
woman
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You can't repay a dying woman .
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One dark, stormy night I visited the dying woman .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Even as she lay dying in a hospital bed, she was still thinking of her children.
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He gave the dying man a drop of water from his flask.
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The priest was killed as he was giving the last rites to a dying man.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Magee ignored the crimson puddles and knelt beside the dying man again, this time rolling him over on to his back.
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Some of the patients, especially the dying , wanted to confide in the man and woman who had eased their suffering.
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The dying planet has a metaphysical relationship to my own mortality and to that extent my inquiry into landscape is inherently ironic.
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The bucket seethed with dying fish.
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The other prime mover was that the slump is now in its dying throes.
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When it comes to death, counselling the dying , or helping the bereaved, we Christians have become secularised.