adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
settle sth finally/eventually
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The case was finally settled by the Appeal Court.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
agree
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Four more divisions took place then, before it was finally agreed and ordered to be sent to the House of Commons.
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After weeks of wondering what to do, the engineers finally agreed on a solution.
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She finally agreed and sent me to a spinal expert.
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Crazy Horse finally agreed to go if Lee accompanied him on the journey.
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After weeks of talks, it was finally agreed that Sade would sign to Virgin.
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The Olympic Committee finally agreed , and the organizers went to work.
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It was for that reason and no other that I finally agreed to stay on.
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Basilio finally agrees to marry Rita to Bernardo.
arrive
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We finally arrived at the house.
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When dawn finally arrived , an ill-rested city streamed to witness the cause of its apprehension being sent to her eternal punishment.
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That night we finally arrived at Peshawar Airport.
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Marshall had finally arrived at his office and slowly, carefully, began reading the fourteen pages, starting with page one.
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They finally arrived at Lizzy's ward.
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We finally arrive on station and are submerged by midmorning.
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That's not what he thinks would or should happen, the day his lover finally arrives .
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When the day of reckoning finally arrived , the truth was found to lie well in the middle ground between these extremes.
become
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But like many people we had sustained injuries and we had finally become disillusioned about ever becoming fit.
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He had suddenly woken up realizing that his blurry baby had finally become quite outrageous.
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After a decade in deepest black, fashion has finally become fun again.
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They were allowed to come back, and they became finally great favorites of Zeus.
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Love, love that had always held pain through fear of losing it but had finally become a torment.
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It has become finally clear that packing largely destitute and idle people into public housing creates a rotten place to live.
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A: Will doing business on the Net finally become profitable next year?
break
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John Strachey finally broke with Mosley in 1931 and became a Communist.
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This was important, for Bonar Law's health was on the point of finally breaking up.
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The sound of stockinged legs moving across the room finally broke the silence.
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But Simpkin finally broke her to lead 5-4, then had two set points.
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It was the Livsey century that had finally broken the Warwickshire resistance - Jeeves to the rescue once more.
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Inexplicably, the usually reliable pumps started to malfunction and finally broke down.
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When Niki finally breaks through the crowd, he finds a Lotus in front of him.
catch
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Breaknecking it has finally caught up with me.
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He was finally caught , and it hardly mattered who had caught him.
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He finally caught up with her about thirty yards away from the pond.
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Men have finally caught up with women in locking themselves out of their rooms.
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She knew as sure as eggs was eggs that Kate, bless her, had finally caught herself a man.
come
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They finally come together at the lowest level of their relationship.
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Nor was he willing to let bygones be bygones once a quarrel had finally come to an end.
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By the time morning finally came she felt like a total wreck.
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The dean had a house and car, and had had a wife, until the papers finally came through.
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This man she's married finally came to his senses, but he was refusing to marry her at one point.
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So many things that should logically be solved several rungs below finally come to him.
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The day his lover finally comes home from that other city.
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Liz had finally come to my office on the suggestion of her doctor, who was treating her for migraines.
decide
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This can not be decided finally by the tribunal itself.
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Merrell Dow finally decided the cost of defending itself outweighed the revenue produced by sales of the drug.
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They waited in the airport for two hours before finally deciding they would go home.
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She finally decided on the ham, potato salad and deviled eggs.
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Perhaps, she had finally decided , I shall simply have to learn to live with it.
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It was finally decided to refer the matter to the departmental assemblies.
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Remember that you are your own best critic and only you can finally decide what it is you wanted to say.
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She finally decided that was less important than the chance to reach millions of people.
end
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Riders were offered food and drinks when their trip finally ended .
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Bombed out of one small premises, Grandpa had moved from factory to factory, finally ending up in what was now Belmodes.
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The section gathers energy, finally ending with a brilliant and triumphant flourish.
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The royal marriage had finally ended .
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Only then comes the point where the crust finally ends and the mantle rock begins.
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The fairytale finally ends when Harry is born on September 15.
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But Thursday, the long battle finally ended .
find
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Of course, when my friends finally find out, they were really excited.
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Many of the missing literature books finally found their way to school Wednesday.
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Hugh finally found his machines for living in.
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You beat us the first time around, but we finally found a jury that got it right Wednesday.
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When Zeier finally found an open man downfield, he threw a pass off the head of umpire Bob Wagner.
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It takes nearly two hours, but they finally find the spot.
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They finally found her lying in bed in a smoke-filled bedroom, and helped her to safety.
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She had finally found her public voice.
get
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On the day we finally got the job finished we received a visit from John Hall.
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As you can imagine, when he finally got to my office, his self-esteem was badly tattered.
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I'd got a baby - forty-two hours in labour, but I'd finally got a baby.
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Once I finally got around to finding a definition, I see that it was never any such thing.
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It is 0320 before the team finally get to bed, with the Captain promising them a lie-in until 1000 hours.
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The urgent need for this cover as a presidential election looms forced the compromises that finally got results.
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It seemed like just another insult, but this was the one that finally got the bully's face slapped.
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A few weeks ago, she finally got new glasses, courtesy of Medi-Cal, in time for school.
give
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When you were finally given this flat in February this year, you must have been over the moon.
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Lawmakers finally gave the Health and Human Services Department the power to issue privacy regulations.
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In 1784 the house was remodelled and was finally given its neo-Baroque features in 1860.
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In 1977, the battered organization finally gave up and dissolved itself.
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They may keep this up time and time again until, with luck, the predator finally gives up the chase.
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The doctors attending on him finally gave up hope.
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With one last defiant surge of power the jeep finally gave up the ghost.
leave
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When he had finally left the bungalow after the funeral several weeks before, David had drawn all the curtains.
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Leonard and Dennis finally left for California, but I left Colorado before they did.
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Polly finally left the peace camp with the gap that Jack had left in her heart and soul still not filled.
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When she finally left Loreto, it did not come to me as a surprise.
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The forensic scientist had finally left the road at last light, certain it had nothing more to yield.
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She was exhausted when they finally left , and she stayed to talk to Zack, to thank him again.
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It was not until early in 1106 that his and the king's messengers finally left for Rome.
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The coming and going in the city, earning money just for myself having finally left a foolish marriage.
make
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More importantly, the defense finally made a critical play when called upon.
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She finally made her return by jumping the 760-foot Auburn Bridge near Sacramento.
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When they finally made the coast, Cassius discovered the badge was gone, and no search would bring it back.
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She finally made it to university, after which to my regret I lost touch with her.
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Rodman probably feels that that was the sort of job Grandfather bucked for all his life and finally made .
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As my eyes slowly adjusted to the darkness I could finally make out the bats.
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So what finally made network executives realize they could profit by adding more skating to their traditional sports lineups?
reach
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We finally reached the top - to discover that the party behind had used some of our gear at a belay.
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Its urbanization, progressing steadily, had finally reached the ultimate.
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We looked at each other - we had finally reached Isparion's elusive summit.
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As I stood looking out at the crowd, I felt I had finally reached a new stage in my life.
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Helicopters circled overhead as the caravan finally reached the end of its historic journey.
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The seemingly interminable day was finally reaching its dark conclusion.
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But it would be tragic to have finally reached the real tough issues only to see it all fall apart.
settle
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I want at least four when I do finally settle down and get married.
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I finally settled on the idea of studying pharmacy.
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But Geron and the Roslin scientists could at last assure investors that the patent question was finally settled .
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Hashimoto finally settled on Wataru Kubo of the steadily disintegrating socialist party.
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The position regarding administration orders over unregistered companies has not been finally settled by judicial decision.
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The seismic jolt to Los Angeles home values appears to have finally settled down, way down.
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Last week the government finally settled the case for the sum of $ 508m.
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He finally settled on Reno, then the Dade Country, Fla., prosecutor.
turn
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Adam finally turned the icon over and found on the back a small silver crown inlaid in the wood.
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The soldiers regarded us suspiciously, but finally turned back to the partition where another woman was moaning in pain.
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He finally turned to her, shook his head slowly from side to side and swung back to contemplate the dusk.
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Six months earlier there had been hope that a new era was about to dawn, that things would finally turn around.
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At Karlsruhe, the Rhine had finally turned blue and the river here is the boundary between the Palatinate and Baden-Württemberg.
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One night, therefore, Blue finally turns to his copy of Walden.
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He takes off his cap and runs his hand in his hair, finally turns back to her.
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These Tonellis have finally turned me into a total loser.
win
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Derek led 12-6 then trailed 2016 before collecting two threes at the last two ends to win finally by 21-20.
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The concept finally won approval last year in a simple piece of legislation, less exalted than a constitutional amendment.
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But he has finally won a mint.
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So we kept pushing them and we finally won .
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A nail-biting finish, but finally won by Moira Creek at her first attempt and a complete stranger to Pooh culture.
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The U. S. Postal Service has finally won the right to ridicule its competitors.
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Over 50 people entered the handicap event which was finally won by 14- year-old Scott Friedberg.
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Nixon finally won the presidency in 1968.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Finally , I'd like to thank all those people who helped make the conference such a success.
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And finally , don't miss Albuquerque's amazing punk band, playing tonight at the Lunar Club.
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And finally , I'd like to thank the cast and crew for all their hard work.
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I was put on hold for about ten minutes before I finally got to speak to my dad.
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The Senate ethics committee has not yet acted finally in the Cranston case.
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We finally found a decent apartment close to campus.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But you finally have a chance.
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From there he moved on to Edinburgh, and finally shut himself away in his much embellished palace of Falkland to die.
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He finally drew the cigar into red heat and discarded the final match.
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It seems to have finally resolved itself into an increased interest in practical deterrence and street-level prevention programmes.
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Then it started on Cumbrian limestone, blossomed to Lakeland quarries and so, finally , to Raven Crag.