I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an entrance exam (= in order to enter a school or university )
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Jane passed the entrance exam but decided not to go.
an entrance examination (= to enter a school or university )
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He had now failed the college entrance examination twice.
an entrance/entry fee (= a fee to enter a place )
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The gallery charges an entrance fee.
entrance hall
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a huge tiled entrance hall
the entrance gate
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Derek met us at the entrance gate.
the entrance to a tunnel/tunnel entrance
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To the right was the entrance to a second tunnel.
the entrance to a tunnel/tunnel entrance
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To the right was the entrance to a second tunnel.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
back
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There's no back entrance , no side entrance.
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They had in mind a back entrance occasionally used by delivery trucks in the dead of night.
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The back fly entrance has a single zip, giving a small bellend space to store a rucksack and boots.
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As we return to the school we cut across the large paved parking lot and head for the back entrance .
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It was parked outside the back entrance to a two-storey building.
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With a sigh, Hari moved to the back entrance and knocked again.
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I followed, and found a space in the car park near the back entrance to the supermarket.
front
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At the front entrance there are two wide door openings so access in and out is extremely good.
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Police barricades were set up at the front entrance , and police cars occasionally circled the building.
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As Brassard was leaving, he warned the security man at the front entrance that Celia was expecting a visitor.
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Returning to the front entrance , he found Hendrix still waiting for her food, smoking yet another cigarette.
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The steps at the front entrance were demolished and a ramp was constructed together with new steps.
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They had been strictly segregated from the ladies and gentlemen who entered by the front entrance and walked on carpet.
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She turned from the front entrance .
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Flats with shared front entrances are not particularly desirable either, even if they do have entry phones fitted.
main
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In peace and war, the Union Flag has fluttered above the main entrance .
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And there are just four X-ray portals at the main entrance to Olympic Park.
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This prime site is adjacent to the dual carriageway at the main entrance to the port.
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Koi swim in a pond just inside the main entrance .
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On the pediment of the main entrance , the gold hands of the blue-painted clock moved towards the hour.
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She found a parking space close to the main entrance .
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There is a sudden flurry outside the main entrance , a Gothic porch.
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As we got closer, we could see that the Hall was a heavy, dark building with a large main entrance .
rear
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The nearest rear entrance belonged to a home bakery.
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From there, a quiet backstreet led to the rear entrance of her apartment block.
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I got dressed and went into the barn and looked for the old wooden trunk near the rear entrance .
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They did however have the convenience of a rear entrance .
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She garaged her car and thought briefly of entering the apartment block by the rear entrance .
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Beside it was an alleyway which provided rear entrances to a row of Botanic Avenue shops.
separate
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She confirmed that when seeing each other they always tried to use separate entrances and exits.
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We already have two bathrooms and two separate entrances .
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When the second car, 762 was rebuilt, a new layout with separate entrance and exit was included.
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The sole unit, quiet, with a separate outside entrance , sleeps four to five and has a kitchen.
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The Studios have a separate entrance in Harrison Street and have direct access to the Stalls seating area.
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There are three types of apartment available each with separate entrance .
■ NOUN
door
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Just inside the big double entrance doors were hundreds of tiles which never seemed to be sold.
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He asked if Adrian had posted the Closed sign on the entrance door .
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A short flight of stairs adjoins each entrance door and leads down to the central sleeping area.
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Occasionally, l glanced at the entrance door .
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The entrance to the site is close to the entrance doors .
exam
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Even so, without his father's family connection he wouldn't have scraped through the entrance exam .
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An entrance exam guides students into one of four academic tracks, ranging from highly gifted to remedial.
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He failed a university entrance exam .
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She was still holding the newspaper clipping about the woman who committed suicide when her son failed his college entrance exam .
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It is another two years before they sit their university entrance exam .
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There are juku to help four-year-olds pass entrance exams for elite kindergartens.
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Students often have a good idea of what scores they need on college-entrance exams to earn acceptance letters and scholarships.
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There are even juku to help kids pass entrance exams to get into prestigious juku.
examination
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Voice over Professors flew in especially from Prague to supervise the entrance examinations and emphasise the benefits of studying in their country.
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He claimed to have taken entrance examinations for Stevens, but no records remain.
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Having passed the entrance examinations he joined as an Aircraft Apprentice at Halton in August 1928.
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There had been a rush to take part when the national college entrance examination was restored in 1977.
fee
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All except the 25 pence of the £4.25 entrance fee goes to the rider coming second.
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Of them, 186 collect an entrance fee .
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We not only pay an entrance fee to access these facilities, we also pay a community charge for local amenities.
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After a major uproar, that was trashed and replaced with an $ 11 entrance fee .
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But the not-so-bright can sometimes secure a place if the parents stump up a large entrance fee .
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For example, the entrance fee at Yosemite is now $ 5.
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The entrance fee was another 15 dollars but this is nothing to Nikitenko.
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Strangers may be politely questioned before paying the $ 16 entrance fee .
foyer
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The two co-exist as memories of their cultures, with a healthy clash where the two collide in the entrance foyer .
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Today the art teacher, Charlotte Bond, and several students are working on the mural in the entrance foyer .
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There was no sign of her in the entrance foyer , nor in the street outside.
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The entrance foyer was packed when Georg sidled in that evening, hoping that no-one would see him and recognize him.
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The original entrance foyer on the main road behind the square was barred and boarded and papered over with layers of handbills.
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Bordered designs were used throughout the remaining passageways with a Chlidema square for the entrance foyer inset in a marble surround.
gate
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The old citadel remains; a fortified entrance gate , a ruined keep, some fine slabs of wall.
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Three Miramar entrance gates -- main, north and west -- will be open for visitors.
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The Usher Art Gallery decided that it needed to replace its imposing main entrance gates which were taken away in the war.
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The single entrance gate bears a lock from the age of dungeons.
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However, those who passed through the entrance gates where Hades stood might never return to the mortal world.
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The windows overlooked the long drive to distant entrance gates .
hall
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The origins of the hotel are also apparent in the impressive entrance hall , cocktail bar and lounge.
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The second entrance hall is bigger with more marble, a grim but opulent place.
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Internally, the only significant architectural feature was the two-storey entrance hall , and this is to be retained.
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There was a glass cupola in the entrance hall reached from an attic suite with exposed beams.
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But at least they had removed the studio photograph of a royal princess which until recently had graced the entrance hall .
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The entrance hall was lit by three light pillars.
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Both the entrance hall and the grand banqueting room on the first floor can be hired.
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The entrance hall of the hotel was as big as a railway station itself.
requirement
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For mature candidates, there are modified entrance requirements .
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Develop performance-based admissions standards in addition to, or in place of, more traditional entrance requirements .
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Normal entrance requirements for degree courses should apply, and parallel courses should make differentiated demands on students.
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The Columbia program was enjoying enormous popularity because it offered the widest possible latitude both in studies and in its entrance requirements .
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In view of the competition for places, all applicants are required to have covered the same basic entrance requirements .
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Food fights have no entrance requirements .
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Passes counting towards entrance requirements must be obtained at no more than two sittings of examinations.
tunnel
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The resident here has clamped his opponent and is lifting him away from the tunnel entrance .
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Half way down was a stone arch over the tunnel entrance .
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Railway builders gave a special dignity and significance to the treatment of tunnel entrances .
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The nettles in the tunnel entrance had been partially flattened.
university
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He failed a university entrance exam.
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It is another two years before they sit their university entrance exam.
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The social class bias in university entrance is not matched by a corresponding bias in university performance.
■ VERB
block
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The travellers had already been thwarted by Gloucestershire police, who blocked entrances to a site in the Forest of Dean.
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The rubble had temporarily blocked the entrance to the cavern below the Horseshoe Falls.
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They have defied bailiffs by blocking the entrance to the building.
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Five were arrested on a charge of trying to block an entrance to the Treasury Building.
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The stone that blocked the entrance to the tomb was placed there for a purpose.
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In London, two skips and six barrels full of toxic waste blocked the front entrance to the environment building.
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They blocked the entrances in protest at what they claim is the unnecessary culling of badgers organised from the base.
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We arrived at one which blocked one of the entrances to Debenham.
gain
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Picking her way over the rough ground and through the hazards, she gained the kitchen entrance .
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About fifty people attempted to gain entrance , but were held back by the police.
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She will gain entrance to the text through a consideration of how articles of clothing function for women and for men.
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But there are the keys, without which the adventurers can not gain entrance to vital areas of the Castle.
guard
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The woman guarding the entrance way does not wish to know this.
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We failed to clear the farther islands which guard the entrance , and had to turn back to Po Ti.
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They see that the stone guarding the entrance to the sepulchre has been rolled away.
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Draitser retaliated by posting security guards at the hotel entrance to bar Tatum.
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But the camera was designed to guard the lift entrance , and not show what lay beyond.
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Minders guarded the entrance as they played in the hot jets.
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Now look up at the towers guarding the entrance to Charles Bridge.
lead
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He dropped us in a short street which led to the entrance to the Taj.
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A walkway from the street, set off from the sidewalk by a stone wall, led to a side entrance .
make
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It makes my superfluous entrances and exits possible, that would have been difficult or undreamt-of, otherwise.
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Conscious work on negative emotions makes the entrance of positive emotions more and more certain, as each day passes.
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He made for the central entrance to the choir under the organ and almost collided with Dhani, who giggled.
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By the time Johnson made his second-half entrance with 7: 05 left, it was 67-47.
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One of the things I remember about Michael was him waiting to make his entrance each night.
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She was letting me make my entrance .
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Characters made their entrances from the two lifts and swept down the stairs to their appointed places.
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Dominic used to love making an entrance .
mark
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It would mark our open entrance into the field of politics.
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The Parkins' house stood in a drive marked at the entrance with a notice restricting access to residents only.
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Use an arbor to frame a view or to mark the entrance to a path, he suggests.
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After a twenty-minute drive, Blanche spotted a notice marking the entrance to Malbis Castle.
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An hour later, we made our way to the flashing beacons marking the entrance to Channel Islands Harbor.
reach
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As I reached the entrance to the lift the iron concertina gate clattered open.
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They reached the entrance to what was probably the least damaged of the buildings, long and windowless.
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They reached the entrance in mutual silence and, seething in mounting outrage, she was propelled inside.
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Duregar's army moved steadily southwards until it reached the eastern entrance to Death Pass.
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Renwick shook off the effects of his talk with Lorna Upwood and concentrated on reaching the entrance to this enormous building.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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college entrance examinations
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Davis used a side entrance to avoid the waiting reporters.
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It took us ages to find the entrance to the park.
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The price includes most meals and entrance fees to museums.
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Their conversation was interrupted by the entrance of four visitors.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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It makes my superfluous entrances and exits possible, that would have been difficult or undreamt-of, otherwise.
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It turns toward an expressway entrance only a few blocks away.
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Kragan turned right outside the hotel entrance and walked towards the Rue de Rivoli.
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The erasure, then, is more or less the same procedure as the entrance .
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The sole unit, quiet, with a separate outside entrance , sleeps four to five and has a kitchen.
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There were the usual grumbles, but they faded instantly as the ambulance backed up to the entrance , doors already opening.
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You waited at the entrance to Terminal One, saw me arrive in a taxi.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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I was entranced by her sheer beauty.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He was immediately entranced by her voice and built a band called Ton Ton Macoute around her.
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Her icy, delicate beauty entranced Kay.
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Jockey shorts on sale in outdoor bins on Broadway entrance him.
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You know I did, I was entranced by them the other day.