verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an eating disorder (= in which someone stops eating a normal amount of food )
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Eating disorders can be very difficult to treat.
an eating/dessert apple (= one which is sweet enough to eat )
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Use dessert apples for this recipe.
eat a meal
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When they had eaten their meal, they went out for a walk.
eat an apple
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Some people say that you should eat an apple every day.
eat at/in a restaurant ( also dine at/in a restaurant formal )
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Have you eaten in this restaurant before?
eat fish
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You should eat more fish.
eat food
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He sat in the corner and ate his food.
eat lunch
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What time do you usually eat lunch?
eat meat
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I don't eat meat - I'm vegetarian.
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People are eating less meat these days.
eat/drink soup
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We chatted as we ate our spinach soup.
eaten supper
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Have you eaten supper ?
eat/have a diet
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People in Mediterranean areas generally have a very good diet.
eating apple
eating disorder
eating/drinking habits (= the kinds of things you eat or drink regularly )
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You need to change your eating habits.
enough to do/eat etc
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Erica was worried that the children weren’t getting enough to eat.
good to eat/drink
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They have to learn which wild foods are good to eat.
have/eat breakfast
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Paul got up, washed and had breakfast.
have/eat dinner
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Why don't you come and have dinner with us?
healthy eating
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the importance of healthy eating
loads to do/see/eat etc
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There’s loads to see in Paris.
ready to use/eat etc
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The computer is now set up and ready to use.
safe to use/drink/eat etc
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The water is treated to make it safe to drink.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
away
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It looked misshapen in this light, almost as if something was eating away at it.
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Especially if you come upon one at night, all lit up, eating away under banks of lights miles from anywhere.
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We carefully watched the flame of the hour candle eating away the wax from ring to ring.
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Competition among team members eats away the very underpinnings of successful teamwork.
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The acid began to eat away at the edge of her tunic, the bottom strands of her curly hair.
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Then the insidious eating away of energy and self-esteem begins in earnest.
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She has Alzheimers Disease, which is eating away at her mind.
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In the intervening years, as property taxes ate away at their nest egg, their proposals for other developments fell flat.
properly
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People who eat properly feel good about themselves.
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She said she encouraged him to eat properly and start exercising.
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Without an audience, but with a very hungry tummy, it wasn't long before Suzy began to eat properly .
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The four found Mary and Reggie in the kitchen, eating properly off plates.
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When I was on my own I would feel sad and would not eat properly .
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Eat properly Eating well before and during pregnancy is very important.
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I guess I was fairly content - bored sometimes, but happy to be alive and eating properly .
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Students increasingly complained that they could not afford to eat properly .
too
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This sets a bad example to teenagers, many of whom are overweight and eat too much junk food.
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Persons who eat too much are called gluttons.
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So trying to break the habit actually increases the compulsion to smoke or to eat too much!
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The worries about the food, and I ate too much, and adjusting to the differences in food.
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If you are one of the majority of business executives, you probably eat too much and occasionally drink too much.
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The greatest danger, therefore, was in eating too much.
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The rich eat too much meat and suffer from chronic constipation, diseases of the bowel, gout, and bladder stones.
■ NOUN
apple
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It is rarely remarked that what she sought to gain from eating the apples was Knowledge.
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Then her eating of the red apple was premature; she had overreached herself.
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We sat down to eat our apples .
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In fact you can eat it like an apple , though the citron is most always candied.
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This reminds us of Adam and Eve in the bible and the disobedience of man when they ate the forbidden apple .
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I eat all the apple strudel.
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Commonsense told them that anyone could eat dozens of apples a day without suffering any permanent ill effect.
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I sat on the earth banking that looks out over the Muddy Creek and ate an apple .
bird
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The birds that ate the new weights showed no ill effects.
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Some people breed these birds to eat .
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By masquerading as poisonous insects, they avoid attacks from birds that might otherwise eat them.
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The bird will go to eat the seed - when it does, jump on it.
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The birds came to eat the wheat.
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Bacterial rotting often does not look much like mould. % % % q. Local birds tend to eat little black insects.
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If they was any, birds ate em.
bite
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Would he care to stay on for a bite to eat ?
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Saguaros in bloom, the glare of a horned owl and javelinas rooting for a bite to eat .
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I cheekily went across to a detached cottage and asked if it was possible to get a bite to eat .
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They are about seven miles west of Larimore, and are headed into town for a bite to eat .
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The others went off to have a bite to eat before beginning their checks on the Sardinian shepherds they had picked out.
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Park-goers often wander into the restaurant for a bite to eat .
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As you are put immediately at ease, you settle down with a steaming cup of coffee and a bite to eat .
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Maybe Gray should invite his new coach out for a bite to eat .
bread
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I am too wasted to eat my bread .
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I finally got tired of it and vowed never to eat herbed bread again.
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Their reasoning is that, if people wanted pure carbohydrates, they would eat bread or pasta.
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She stopped cooking, and for days the boy and his sisters ate stale bread and tamarind jam by the spoonful.
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But I do not eat more bread and meat or, let us hope, drink more wine or spirits.
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The nutritive arguments still stand and I would not make a habit of eating lots of white bread .
breakfast
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Ten minutes later Doctor Jekyll had returned to his own shape and was sitting down, pretending to eat breakfast .
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You will be eating grape-nuts at breakfast next.
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He ate his breakfast at the Grill every morning of his life, desperate to get away from that barracuda.
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Neither she nor Nan ate a cooked breakfast .
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I would rather have boxed than ate breakfast .
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She ate me for breakfast and simply disappeared.
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Edusha ate her breakfast still wearing her bathrobe and her slippers.
cake
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You can have your cake and eat it; the only trouble is, you get fat.
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It is called having your cake and eating it, too.
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Noreen, frankly, wanted her cake and to eat it as well.
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In Yakima, Washington, people paid a dollar for all the cakes they could eat in a flapjack-eating contest.
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You can't have your cake and eat it.
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This is as close as I can come to having my pedagogical cake and eating it too.
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Women wanted their cake and to eat it too - they were getting more like men every day!
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I had my cake and ate it also.
child
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We're not talking about children eating deadly nightshade.
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The children ate organic foods from health food stores and from the garden at their home.
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She decided to make a fruit salad, and sat peeling and chopping as the children ate their tea.
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Pica Pica is when a child regularly and excessively eats inappropriate objects, such as dirt, coal, stones, fluffy materials.
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Studies reveal that school attendance and classroom performance improve when children eat breakfast.
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If red candies have a reinforcing flavor and green candies do not, the child takes and eats red candies.
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The overlap also allows the children to eat lunch in school and play together.
day
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You pin up a wall chart listing how many calories you eat each day .
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Men like to eat every day .
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Jones, 20, suffered sickness and diarrhoea and didn't eat for five days .
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Potatoes, on the other hand, we ate every other day .
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If possible eat on the same day that you buy them.
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Senior citizens eat lunch there every day .
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Did these people eat like this every day ?
diet
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This was not the case in our patients, however, as they were eating a standard western diet .
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We end up overcompensating for our desires, eating more of the diet food than we should, looking for satisfaction.
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Many ailments which are blamed on old age could be avoided if everyone ate a healthy diet .
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People who lose weight and keep it off eat a low-fat diet with an occasional splurge.
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They should also be encouraged to take plenty of exercise and eat a good healthy diet .
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The women featured in the article are reducing their risk of chronic disease by exercising and by eating a balanced diet .
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Ulene tries to practice what he preaches, jogging and eating a low-fat diet .
dinner
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Keith smoked Dempster's cigars, ate his dinners .
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To the accompaniment of foghorns and buoy bells, beside a crackling fire, l slowly eat my dinner .
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Of the 3, 351 teens surveyed, 53 percent said they eat dinner with the family regularly.
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She ate dinner alone before a fire made of driftwood that sent salty blue flames leaping up the chimney.
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Why be skeptical when I could be eating a free dinner at a fancy restaurant?
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About a week later, the family sat at the small table eating dinner .
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She went to the table and ate some of her dinner , looking at him.
drink
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The harvesters stopped work, sat down and started to eat and drink .
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Chavez, at 33 and perhaps fighting for the last time, eats junk food, drinks beer and loves to party.
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I go somewhere else and eat junk food and drink junk wine.
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At the same time, I eat and drink .
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Be it an alacarte dinner or a quick snack, Mulliners is the place to eat , drink and be merry.
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Mr Reynolds admitted that he had been afraid to eat or drink because of the possible effects on his bowel and bladder.
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Even if we eat and drink well, we become sluggish inside without exercise to stimulate the metabolism.
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Don't eat or drink too many and don't snack on them during the day.
fish
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How big do they grow, and will they then eat larger fish ?
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I recently ate raw fish with a sushi virgin.
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Instead, eat more fish , particularly oily fish such as mackerel. 9.
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They eat fish from streams polluted with chlorinated hydrocarbons.
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Why should they eat salt fish , when William and Joe commanded the seas?
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Then the Kuchas sat down and ate the fish in his honor.
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Although fairly peaceful, it will eat small fish like your Neons and Glowlights.
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It prefers live fishes , but it can be induced to eat cut fish and shrimp.
food
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How can I feed her nourishing food when she will eat nothing?
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Taco Bell: The burritos and fajitas are among the easiest foods to eat on the fly.
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She is concerned about the size of the portions of food I eat .
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Her secret, she said, is all the preservatives in the junk foods she eats .
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Even children suffer because of the inadequacy of the food they eat .
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It is, after all, merely another food amidst the dozens of foods we eat .
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He gave her food to eat , and watched her, while he quietly smoked a cigarette.
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The food they eat is not bought with money.
fruit
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You will eat the fruit of your labour; blessings and prosperity will be yours.
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One is not to eat fruits that have been plucked; one is to wait for the fruits to fall.
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You sometimes try to eat more fruit but the secret store of chocolate goes down just as fast.
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The small, round, dark blue skin invites instant eating , and the fruit is amazingly versatile on the table.
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Listen, if you don't want the Baywatch contract, just keep drinking loads of water and eat fruit .
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They were also the group who were least likely to eat fresh fruit .
heart
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Eric Clapton eat your heart out.
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Pablo Picasso, eat your heart out.
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Philip Schofield, eat your heart out.
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The square tango had to be seen to be believed - eat your hearts out, disco dancers!
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Kate is obviously eating her heart out for a colour changer and an intarsia carriage.
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Keith Floyd eat your heart out!!
lunch
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They ate lunch in a shady restaurant and then Leary went back to his flower-hung villa.
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After we eat a hearty lunch I begin my afternoon the normal way with my virgin pina colada.
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Members of the club joined in a wide range of activities and ate a healthy lunch at the Southlands Centre, Middlesbrough.
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What time does he eat lunch ?
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I ate no lunch but drank solidly.
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Kayla had been a shy girl, who prayed before eating school lunch .
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We went to eat lunch in a restaurant frequented by poorly paid clerks and secretaries and, no doubt, messengers.
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Riker and I and Reacher and the gunner sat around the Huey and ate lunch .
meal
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Not that they were eating gourmet meals .
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I had not been sleeping at night, and at meals I could not eat .
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We spend much of our time buying food, planning meals and eating them.
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Presumably the sight of a red and blue meal puts you off eating it.
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Trade having been done, they settled to take the meal , to eat , to indicate their good intentions.
meat
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It is said that in the under 16 age group one in six no longer eats meat .
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Of all these horsemen, not a tenth, not even a twentieth eat meat on the march.
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The rich eat too much meat and suffer from chronic constipation, diseases of the bowel, gout, and bladder stones.
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I feel very confident eating meat here.
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In just one mouthful I ate three of their meat dishes and three of their loaves of bread.
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They did not eat meat on Fridays or practice artificial contraception.
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We can only afford to eat meat twice a week, the rest of the time it's beans and rice.
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Nor did any allergic reactions arise in those who ate the meat of animals who had been fed a gene-spliced soybean diet.
people
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Nine in 10 people eat too much fat - which can be a trigger of heart disease.
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Many people are timid about eating pork cooked less than well-done.
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It was a curious but inspiring sight: here were people who lived, ate and slept liberation.
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Inside, in a room reeking of incense, are people eating .
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And very few people eat a healthy, balanced diet.
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This amuses us, since people are glad to eat such flowers as cauliflower, broccoli, and artichokes.
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Slim people generally eat the same kinds of food that fatter people like to eat.
pie
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Come and take potluck eat humble pie whatever.
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It is estimated that three-quarters of the region's population eat pies regularly both at home and outside. 3.
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Then he ate meat pie and drank tea and could not recall a meal that tasted better.
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The Midlanders have been eating humble pie this season, though they deserve better fare.
sandwich
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I tried eating a sandwich with my second cup of tea and I just about managed it.
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Tony ate five or six sandwiches at a sitting, his hulking form dominating the counter.
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After a while, to Robbie's relief, Fen threw off his knapsack, suggesting they stop and eat their sandwiches .
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When she broke off the smoke, the Pilgrims had no fire, they sat around eating sandwiches and devilled eggs.
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My temper was further inflamed to find them happily eating the sandwiches .
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At noon they ate the sandwiches and then continued north through mostly open water.
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Later I called to him, and we ate our sandwiches together.
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Increasingly, people are eating sandwiches and pizzas on bagels.
■ VERB
begin
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Without an audience, but with a very hungry tummy, it wasn't long before Suzy began to eat properly.
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Very slowly the boy cut himself another slice and began to eat it.
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She took the box and began to eat .
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As he began to eat again he heard Donald move towards the cupboard.
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Madeleine picked up her fork and began to eat .
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Browning said he had few side effects during the treatment and began eating steaks after the second week of chemotherapy.
like
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Talk about the kinds of bread each likes - ways they like to eat it.
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Men like to eat every day.
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But it doesn't look like what I usually eat .
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I am so tired of corn-bread, which I never liked , that I eat it with tears in my eyes.
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He likes to eat out, or listen to concerts, or attend antiques fairs.
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We like to eat , and fat-free foods just give us license to eat even more.
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I often feel ill, and I don't like to eat much.
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I like eating here now better.
sit
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At Christmas the pressure to sit down and eat with others is immense.
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A meal maybe, where me and Halle and all the Sweet Home men sat down and ate something special.
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The family sits down to eat .
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As usual, after the first appreciative murmurs, we sat and ate our meal in silence.
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If he wants to sit outdoors sometimes or eat with us.
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He picks up sticks and sits down to eat them.
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We staked out a spot on the beach and sat on a blanket eating buttered spaghetti and fried bananas.
start
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The next day he started eating again.
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Then she sat down and started to eat .
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Once you start eating in a healthier way, good weight control should become much easier.
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Once they start eating on a piece of wood, however, they can get a little more difficult to spot.
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She had already started to retreat into eating when she felt upset.
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Den he start ta eat kids?
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I didn't realize how hungry I was until I started eating , and my plate was soon empty.
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I told her to stop reading and start eating .
stop
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But like Taller or Stillman, Ornish recommends that dieters stop eating an entire food group.
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He only stopped working when he ate or slept.
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Whenever I was excited, or very happy, or very upset, I stopped eating .
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He stopped eating to grin at me.
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It was supposed to make John stop eating .
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He usually stops eating for a couple of days but I talk him out of it.
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Batter Up Despite my best efforts, I could not stop eating the skinny fries that came with the combination.
want
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You do not want to wash, eat , think, plan, cope in any way.
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The tourists from Tokyo want to eat a lobster dinner at four in the afternoon.
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You feel hungry; you want to eat more; your muscles ache after exercise, so you miss a few sessions.
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How did she tell her servants what she wanted to eat ?
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Did he want me to eat shit or the words stick in my throat and choke me?
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For most people, the sugary snacks simply add calories, while making you want to eat more.
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Never-ending telly, Mum's long face, and a turkey dinner that nobody wanted to eat , not even Henry.
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In Perrault, she wants to eat them herself.
watch
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To watch him eat , it makes me sick!
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She stopped watching maudlin movies and eating greasy ribs.
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He watched them eat and, listening to their carefree laughter, was content.
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They are talking, also eating oranges, and watching as the children eat theirs.
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She watched me eat for a while, mumbled something and left.
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He hated to watch people eat .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bite (to eat)
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Actually, he found it in the back of his throat, where it lodged after he took a bite .
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Examples: Apple shows an apple, with a bite taken out of it.
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I cheekily went across to a detached cottage and asked if it was possible to get a bite to eat.
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I took a bite out of the sandwich.
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Saguaros in bloom, the glare of a horned owl and javelinas rooting for a bite to eat.
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Seligson withdrew his candidacy and wrote a biting letter to Harleston.
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Very often it is this rod that gets a bite .
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Would he care to stay on for a bite to eat?
dog eat dog
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The media lead young people to believe that we live in a dog-eat-dog world.
eat heartily
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All through the meal he picked at his food, while Peter ate heartily with a quip about being a condemned man.
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Aunt Tossie, now in the full regalia of her widow's weeds, was eating heartily but in a subdued way.
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He always ate heartily on these occasions.
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Stephen took several and ate heartily .
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We ate heartily every night, we could afford croissants at breakfast, and we stopped scrounging for cigarettes.
eat humble pie
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Come and take potluck eat humble pie whatever.
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The Midlanders have been eating humble pie this season, though they deserve better fare.
eat/drink your fill
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Here the nomads water their flocks and the horses drink their fill when the tourists have dismounted.
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I stopped at some blackberry bushes and ate my fill .
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Menelaus gave them a courteous greeting and bade them eat their fill .
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There was still time for Frankie, if he was very quiet and very careful, to eat his fill .
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Why were those high-fibre eaters keeping slim even when they were eating their fill ?
have your cake and eat it
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First, is it an ethical investment policy to encourage people to try to have their cake and eat it?
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It appears the Ministry men can have their cake and eat it ... but only if we let them.
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It seems as though the council wants to have its cake and eat it.
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That way he could have his cake and eat it too.
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The benefits of standardization are coupled with the capacity to respond to change-a way to have your cake and eat it too.
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They don't imagine they can have their cake and eat it too.
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You can't have your cake and eat it.
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You can have your cake and eat it; the only trouble is, you get fat.
something to eat/drink/read/do etc
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But he was walking to a truck stop across the street, probably getting something to eat during his break.
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It had something to do with being a man.
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It had something to do with skills, and something to do with expectation and hope.
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Most calendar programs remind you gently when you have something to do.
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No, you can't dash out for something to eat.
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Of course, the beer might have had something to do with this.
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Then I rolled up my things in a blanket and went out and had something to eat.
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You've done it a thousand times already, but you do it again, just for something to do.
the proof of the pudding (is in the eating)
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Eat your dinner.
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Don't eat so fast - you'll get sick.
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Hey! - Someone's eaten all my chocolates.
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I'm not hungry, thanks - I've already eaten.
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I'm so full. I couldn't eat another thing.
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She was sitting on the wall, eating an apple.
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That big old car of mine just eats money.
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We ate dinner at around six, then went out.
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We eat out about once a month.
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We usually eat at seven o'clock.
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What time do we eat ?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And in order to eat , I needed customers.
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He would eat whatever food was brought him, but took no notice of anyone.
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I ate some fruit, followed by a tuna sandwich made with solid wholemeal bread and headed for Toby's house.
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I can not eat so much.
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She forced herself to eat some more dry biscuits and chocolate, washing them down with a small amount of water.
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This was, after all, the ceremony of eating one, not two chips.