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COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
all kinds/every kind
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He’s done all kinds of work.
almost all/every/everything
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Marsha visits her son almost every day.
any/every eventuality
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We are prepared for every eventuality.
at every (possible) opportunity (= whenever possible )
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She went to the museum at every opportunity.
each and every one of
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These are issues that affect each and every one of us.
enjoyed every minute
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I enjoyed every minute of it.
every angle
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Look at every angle of the situation.
every available sth
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You should practise speaking the language at every available opportunity.
every chance (= a good chance )
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There’s every chance that the baby will survive.
every conceivable
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We were discussing the problems from every conceivable angle.
every few days/weeks etc
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The plants need to be watered every few days.
every imaginable
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He seems to have been influenced by every imaginable musical style.
every inch of the way
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Italy deserved to win, though Greece made them fight every inch of the way .
every indication (= there are very clear signs )
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There is every indication that it is true.
every last (= used to emphasize that you mean all of something )
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All the money was gone; every last penny of it.
every shape and size
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The plants grow in every shape and size .
every waking moment (= all the time you are awake )
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He spent every waking moment in the lab.
every year
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They go back to the same resort every year.
every/each day
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The museum is open to visitors every day.
explore every avenue
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The president wants to explore every avenue towards peace in the region.
for every...pocketbook
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The aim was to provide a car for every age and pocketbook .
from every walk of life/from all walks of life
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Our volunteers include people from all walks of life.
have every faith in sb/sth (= trust them completely )
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We have every faith in your ability to solve the problem.
have every sympathy for sb (= feel very sorry for someone - often used when you have had a similar experience yourself )
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I have every sympathy for people who find it hard to give up smoking.
have every/complete/absolute confidence in sb/sth
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A manager must be able to have complete confidence in his staff.
have no/every intention of doing sth
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I have no intention of retiring just yet.
in each/every direction ( also in all directions )
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At the top of the tower there are splendid views in every direction.
in every sense
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He is lucky in every sense.
in every way possible
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The company helped promote the scheme in every way possible.
looks every inch
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With her designer clothes and elegant hair, she looks every inch the celebrity.
made every endeavour
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They made every endeavour to find the two boys.
make every effort to do sth (= try very hard )
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I made every effort to see their point of view.
most every
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He plays poker most every evening.
of every hue/of all hues (= of many kinds )
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political opinions of every hue
pander to...every whim
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Highly trained staff will pander to your every whim .
practically every
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She sees him practically every day.
sb’s every whim
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Their father had always indulged her every whim.
use any/every means to do sth (= use any method or many methods )
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He will use any means to get what he wants.
use every excuse in the book (= use every possible excuse )
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He used every excuse in the book to avoid seeing the doctor.
watch/follow sb’s every move
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His eyes followed Cissy’s every move.
wish sb (every) happiness/wish (every) happiness to sb (= say that you hope someone will have a happy life )
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I would like you to join me in wishing every happiness to Annabelle and Steven.
wish sb (every) happiness/wish (every) happiness to sb (= say that you hope someone will have a happy life )
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I would like you to join me in wishing every happiness to Annabelle and Steven.
worth every penny
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The hotel was expensive but it was worth every penny .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(every) now and then/now and again
(every) once in a while
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I only see her every once in a while at school.
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All of these Helen used, displayed, wore, not once in a while, but every day, blushing.
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But look at them once in a while.
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He calls me once in a while or I call him.
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He just comes round once in a while and they go out.
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I do need to see every once in a while.
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I think you should change your shampoo and conditioner once in a while to avoid product build-up.
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I used to take him out fishing once in a while.
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They were both lonely, so why not see each other once in a while.
England expects that every man will do his duty
at every turn
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Government officials demanded bribes from us at every turn .
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Above: the craggy coastline offers new treasures at every turn .
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Emboldened by their mandate from the voters, the parties challenged de Gaulle at every turn .
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Everyone wants to define this free spirit of music, and at every turn the 26-year-old DiFranco rebuffs.
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He relentlessly shadowed Michael from the start, harrying the Ferrari at every turn .
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She had to be particularly vigilant when it came to the large amounts of water threatening them at every turn .
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The latter we were born into, but at every turn we exile ourselves from our own Eden.
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There Amelia was, an intensely ambitious woman without any professional training, blocked at every turn .
each and every
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He was a winner who still felt he could challenge the field each and every week.
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I always ask myself: How can the driver bear to do this each and every day?
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I suppose I should have put it back, even if it meant wiping off each and every bill.
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The Bruins face an opponent that likes to use each and every second of the shot clock.
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Then I made the description so precise I would always find some reason to reject each and every candidate.
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We need to examine the case for it in relation to each and every old person, whose circumstances vary so greatly.
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Yet each and every one of the weird and wacky items have one thing in common they are all absolutely 100% true.
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Yet each day these tensions are coped with in some fashion by each and every teacher.
every (last) ounce of courage/energy/strength etc
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It had taken every ounce of courage she possessed to board the aircraft after her last experience.
every bit as important/bad/good etc
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Barbara was every bit as good as she sounded.
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Here, the Fund runs many family projects that are less well-known but doing work that is every bit as important.
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It is for this reason that good balanced design is every bit as important as meticulous craftsmanship.
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It takes no more than five minutes and tastes every bit as good at the oven-baked variety.
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The explanation is every bit as important as the numbers!
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The traffic was every bit as bad as had been predicted.
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Things every bit as bad happen there, too.
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To her horror it was every bit as bad as she'd feared, and possibly even a tiny bit worse.
every cloud has a silver lining
every dog has its/his day
every inch
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He speaks with a public school accent and looks every inch the business executive he, of course, is.
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He was aware of every inch of her as he had never been aware of anything.
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I frel that it has, with every inch of my being.
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Now it's all ruined, every inch .
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Peterborough made them fight every inch of the way.
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The cold would grow solid, palpable, something to be felt with every inch of your skin.
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The Sharps estimate that they have hiked nearly every inch .
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This is an hour-long conducted tour in an old tram car, nostalgia every inch of the way.
every man jack
every nook and cranny
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We searched every nook and cranny.
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Everything moveable was taken out, every nook and cranny probed.
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Scores of supply vessels, tugs and survey ships filled every nook and cranny and even spilled over into the fish docks.
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The full survey will ensure every nook and cranny is inspected.
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We feel every ache in every nook and cranny, and the nooks and crannies themselves seem to multiply.
every penny
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He's worth every penny they paid him.
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His father was a rickshaw puller, so every penny the family had was laboriously earned.
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Licensed dealers will hold surplus money on deposit from them and take every penny they can.
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Smart public managers spend every penny of every line item, whether they need to or not.
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So, every penny that we receive goes towards cost-effective direct provision for the single homeless.
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The price-£ 50-seemed steep, but it is worth every penny .
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The way the salaries are escalating, we have to make every penny we can in this game.
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We do not dare budget every penny of our income.
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We would live frugally, on a strict budget, and save every penny we could.
every penny counts
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A doubling of the set-aside rate is not good news, coming at a time when every penny counts.
every second year/person/thing etc
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Dalziel was well known, hailing and being hailed by nearly every second person they passed, it seemed to Pascoe.
every single
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And the fabulous Brecon Beacons National Park flows past every single carriage window.
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Everyone in Calcutta knows that I am willing to take every single child.
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In the eternal struggle against administrative incompetence, we need it every single day.
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She was there every single night, a formidable figure in her long, black skirt, cardigan and black straw hat.
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The whole of that crab, every single pincer and leg, however long, had been excised with the knife.
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We want an accounting of every single dollar.
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When he came to reclaim them, every single one had been lost or sold.
every so often
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Every so often we go down to the beach.
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Every so often , Frank looked up at me and smiled.
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The silence was broken every so often by the sound of guns in the distance.
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And every so often a transvestite would swagger past, some more obvious than others.
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I come and visit him every so often .
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I followed Mundin into the shed, turning every so often and glowering at Fifi, who trailed behind us.
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It looked as though it weighed a ton and seemed to quiver every so often .
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It will do that every so often on your birthday.
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The every so often it was mopped, the every so often sprayed.
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They talked in a close huddle and every so often would both turn round and look at me.
every time sb turns around
every which way
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Dendrov branched every which way , a forest of tangled stags' horns.
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He shook his head in wonder and his hair went every which way .
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His hair, dyed tomato red for a new movie, sticks up every which way .
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I have tried every which way to get it back down on the bottom.
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I tried blanching and not blanching, cutting them every which way and freezing whole.
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Instead the field lines would be going every which way .
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Martin put a couple of slick fakes on cornerback Larry Brown, turning and twisting him every which way .
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They went every which way and there seemed no end to them.
every/any Tom, Dick and Harry
for each/every
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In 1988 for every 25 writs issued, one case was determined by trial.
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Log files are kept for every log-in session for every student management system user.
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Separate assessment instruments for each unit?
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She cautioned that for every fire reported, eight go unreported, because local jurisdictions can contain them without help.
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The metric tensor requires one transformation for each of its indices.
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There is a different price factor for each eligible bond and for each delivery month.
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We identified the actions that you originally saw as negative for each person on the management committee.
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Whole groups of state-owned enterprises would be sold, with the Council of Ministers being responsible for each enterprise on offer.
hang on sb's words/every word
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And the children of Elvis did hang on his every word.
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As a result, you find yourself hanging on to every word and gesture.
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We weren't all hanging on your every word anyway, even back then.
have a finger in every pie/ in many pies
in every particular/in all particulars
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Hann's analysis is right in almost all particulars .
it's every man for himself
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In journalism it's every man for himself.
it's not every day (that)
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It's not every day that a helicopter sits down in your backyard.
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After all, it's not every day you win an arena referendum and a game against the defending champion Lakers.
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It's not every day a young woman pulls a gun on a burglar.
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Well, it's not every day , is it?
love/enjoy/hate etc every minute (of sth)
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And even when the tires went flat or the road grew rough, we loved every minute of the journey.
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And he thoroughly enjoyed every minute of it.
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And I give it all I got and enjoy every minute of it.
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But we were careless and happy and full of fun, and enjoyed every minute of the day.
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He went down early each morning and jumped up and down in the briny, enjoying every minute of it.
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I got a goal and enjoyed every minute of it.
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I know we all enjoyed every minute of the three hectic months.
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The first mile was pure pain and I hated every minute of it.
of all stripes/of every stripe
of every/some/any etc description
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Academic excellence was matched with extra-curricular activities of every description - from drama through sport to foreign travel.
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But there is nothing against rugs of any description .
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For example, he wanted to be a member of as many clubs - of any description - as possible.
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Her knowledge of publishing trends, literary history, and books of every description and genre, however, filled rooms.
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It is authorized to decide all cases of every description , arising under the constitution or laws of the United States.
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Superb apple pie with sultanas and cloves, interspersed with crusty bread sandwiches of every description .
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The action must take place against a backdrop of some description , even if it it is a blank black curtain.
on either/every hand
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Ancient oak gave place to modern pine forest on either hand .
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Gaston was a fishmonger who left evidence of his occupation on every hand he shook.
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Mist curled from the water on either hand .
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The drive is spectacular: gorges and tropical rain forests and waterfalls on every hand , but I thought only of Poppy.
once a week/once every three months etc
strain every nerve
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Vincent strained every nerve to turn himself into a draughtsman acceptable to the illustrated papers, and the strain showed.
there's one born every minute
use/try every trick in the book
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I tried every trick in the book to reform him.
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Victoria used every trick in the book to undermine Patsy in order to get the new job colleagues knew Patsy had earned.
with every fibre of your being
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And in that moment she wished with every fibre of her being that it really was possible for her to stay away.
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What she was sure of, though, was that she wanted him with every fibre of her being.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Every room in the house was painted white.
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Every teacher knows the problems that difficult children can cause.
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Every year on her birthday, Jackie throws a big party at the Vineyard House.
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Fire regulations state that every single child should be out of the building in three minutes.
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It rained every single day of our vacation.
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She bought presents for every member of her family.
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The police questioned every single one of the passengers on the plane.
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Thousands of tourists visit Spain every year.
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We go to the movies almost every Saturday night.