verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
area
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Police cordoned off and evacuated the area , which is just yards from the Brent Cross Shopping Centre.
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Police evacuated the immediate area and began a meticulous search for other bombs after the second explosion.
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A leak of plutonium could mean evacuating a large area .
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A landslide also blocked the Cedar River southeast of Seattle, he said, and officials were considering evacuating area residents.
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They were still evacuating the area when a device exploded at the Northern Bank.
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In another reprocessing plant, an air monitor alarmed, and as a precaution, personnel evacuated the area .
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Police evacuated the area before the bomb exploded, causing only minor damage.
city
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I was dispatched to the grammar school, which itself had been evacuated from the big city to a small town.
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Indeed, rebel movements prompted international relief workers to evacuate the city Friday, fearing impending violence.
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Hostilities resumed when the order came to evacuate the cities .
family
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The boys were evacuated by the Rothschild Family and billeted in Britain.
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She wanted to evacuate all of her family from the North.
home
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More than 600 people were evacuated from their homes in Norfolk and eight bungalows collapsed after the sea washed away their foundations.
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About 30 police of whom a third were armed surrounded the semi-detached house and evacuated neighbouring homes .
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Residents within line of fire were evacuated from their homes and advised to take refuge at the Shuttle and Loom pub.
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In Mold, Flintshire, 100 people were evacuated from their homes .
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Around 100 people were evacuated from their homes and other premises in the area around the burning factory.
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At Bedeford, north Devon, people were evacuated from their homes as a dam holding back flood water overflowed.
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Several families were evacuated from their homes in Ulster last night after a bomb alert.
people
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Authorities began evacuating people in the state of Oaxaca as the hurricane battered villages with high winds and intense rain.
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A: I meant just-I meant only that the only means I could evacuate the people would be a hand grenade.
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Faced with conflicting advice from radio stations and the state authorities about whether to evacuate , many people just fled.
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A series of eruptions there in 1999 caused officials to evacuate hundreds of people .
police
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The police evacuated the theatre and the prefect of police banned the show.
resident
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A landslide also blocked the Cedar River southeast of Seattle, he said, and officials were considering evacuating area residents .
■ VERB
force
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This would force the military to evacuate .
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He said that relief workers and soldiers were now forcing people to evacuate .
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In fact so bad has the problem become that whole Alpine villages are being forced to evacuate themselves when the warnings sound.
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At the lowest point in David's fortunes he is forced to evacuate Jerusalem.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A five-block area had to be evacuated following the discovery of 500 pounds of dynamite in a house.
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Terra, 60 miles southwest of Salt Lake City, was evacuated as the fires threatened to spread.
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The stock exchange was quickly evacuated after receiving a bomb threat.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Besides, he knew in his heart of hearts evacuating Heymouth was the right thing to do.
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He then waited until another officer took control before allowing himself to be evacuated.
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Last month, 400 Pittsburg residents had to be evacuated when a train hauling military explosives derailed.
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Local residents were evacuated in case there needed to be a controlled explosion.
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Part of the village was evacuated while Army bomb experts made safe the device.
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Police evacuated the immediate area and began a meticulous search for other bombs after the second explosion.
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We had to evacuate because they were afraid it was going to crack.
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Why the chamber should have decided to evacuate after half-a-million years stability remains a matter of conjecture.