adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
swinging...back and forth
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He was swinging his bag back and forth .
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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bring
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For without the women and their connection to the Earth, who would bring forth the prophecies?
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Any kind of injury brings forth the repairing response, happily for us.
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He gave us a new set of principles, goals, and expectations which brought forth the best from each of us.
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Why does Elsbeth not bring forth a child?
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What horrors will it bring forth ?
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Alex fidgeted impatiently as Miles was brought forth on a stretcher, ignoring the welfare of the Base Coordinator completely.
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Mrs Nishimae goes to a cupboard and brings forth an envelope for Christine.
burst
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Will tomorrow's flashes of scientific insight burst forth beneath the strobe lights of studio 54?
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Athena burst forth , armed as a warrior.
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It is time to leave off, his daughter tells him, it s time to burst forth like a butterfly.
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But it is hard to resist a plant once you see it burst forth in flawless bloom from the frozen ground.
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Within that frigate were seeds of destruction that would soon burst forth .
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Sown in March, they will be full and leafy by the time the roses burst forth in early June.
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Thwarted in the East it then burst forth in the West.
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Resurrection, therefore, means that moment when one bursts forth from the sepulchre of the old man.
call
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But how was the demand to call forth the supply?
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It was dominated by Franklin Roosevelt, the cunning, determined, good-natured president called forth by the crisis of the Depression.
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The Eddie was not called forth by an act of human will.
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What was it that had called forth the mental association?
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Her story ... evokes the imagination, calling forth a reader's response ....
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Who knows what such a happenstance might have called forth from my unpredictable nature?
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The kind of response which it calls forth is not a factual wonder why but a wonder at.
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He called forth again the language of the elect, but turned it from the Puritan community to the whole nation.
come
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They created an egg from which came forth the sun, who fashioned mankind and gave order to the world.
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A sweet spirit of holy song came forth in notes like that of a nightingale and it filled the whole building.
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Come forth from slumbers of thy cold abstraction.
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Then would come forth a slow laugh.-You win, Brice, you win, he would say.
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Lono, who came forth from the waves, did not write.
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His voice had moved down the register until it came forth as a kind of feral growl.
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At the miracle of my birth, I came forth when my father summoned me.
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And while his memory searched wildly for a scripture, nothing came forth .
give
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It had been repainted since the war, but, as far as she knew, it had never given forth music.
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The Earth gives forth plants in the way women give forth babies, out of a hidden darkness.
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She was still giving forth when he came in to investigate.
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The Earth gives forth plants in the way women give forth babies, out of a hidden darkness.
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While the oven and the dough are warming up, the yeast may revive and give forth one final push.
go
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I rose, went forth , and followed thee.
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The King went forth with two great dogs following him, his sole retinue and bodyguard.
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Some say that like Judas he went forth and hanged himself.
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No wonder people came, and no wonder they went forth to proclaim the message to the world.
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In fact, he had told her in no uncertain terms to go forth and multiply.
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Obediently as always Psyche went forth to look for the road to Hades.
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This was the chivalry of Abyssinia going forth to war, unchanged as yet from the armies of the past.
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Back and forth went the untouched pages; the unbearable heat of the locomotive filled the air.
hold
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And how will it feel after he has held forth on television for five years?
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They like being the centre of attention, are more narcissistic, and more likely to hold forth about their achievements.
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Perhaps six feet around and coated with mirrors, it twinkles above the Empire Bar while a swing band holds forth below.
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What right did anybody have to hold forth about his marriage?
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In every report he has written so far, action holds forth over interpretation.
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Lily was holding forth , her pinched face sallow with indignation.
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Excessively bizarre, loving to hold forth , but speaking with spirit.
issue
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Cheap electricity would soon be issuing forth from reactors fed by an inexhaustible resource - seawater.
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Conjectures issued forth from every field and occupation.
pour
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No hardship: the wit pours forth on every page, along with the lamentations.
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Will it make research funding pour forth increasingly?
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Scholarly ink, mixed with scholarly gall, was poured forth upon this fascinating and wholly insoluble mystery.
put
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Texts put forth a gospel of real manhood and real womanhood.
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Newsletters are designed to put forth the vision of the school and systems.
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Then the plants will bush out, putting forth fresh shoots at frequent intervals.
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Driving the process was the ongoing debate over what might be the very best face Lisa could put forth .
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The plant grows rapidly and puts forth floating leaves.
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Put forth some ideas as to what might be helpful.
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Slowly, the teacher enables the student to become more adept at putting forth effort for longer periods of time.
putt
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Then the plants will bush out, putting forth fresh shoots at frequent intervals.
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Slowly, the teacher enables the student to become more adept at putting forth effort for longer periods of time.
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Suddenly as they exchanged memories each saw the other putting forth leaves.
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But we have to be concerned about the policies Republicans are putting forth , anti-choice, anti-environment, anti-women.
sally
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Their mountainous homeland with its fortress valleys was a near impregnable base from which to sally forth .
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But Tommy was so good natured about everything and he would sally forth and start asking people where his strays might be.
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We need, therefore, to sally forth once more into the mathematical jungle of vector spaces.
send
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It sends forth long, trailing stems with leaves up to the water surface, where they float.
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Imagine what a message that would send forth , both inside the city and out.
set
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The norms of domestic life it set forth drew a clear ideological boundary between rational members of society and the feckless.
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These rudiments of space and close personal relationships grow out of the tasks set forth in the classroom.
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Joe set forth the Chennault case once more in a twenty-one-page memorandum sent to Hopkins in early March.
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No formal, authoritative documents set forth these rules, and they find no embodiment in statute law.
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Rousseau introduced a new moral system, which was in essence a reiteration of ideas already set forth by Shaftesbury and Pope.
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Individual Unit Histories - all are meticulously set forth .
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Here Whitman sets forth his basic tenets and suggests the central movement that is to follow.
spew
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The plates realigned and subduction resumed, sparking volcanic activity which spewed forth the granite rock covering much of the Sierras.
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The magic porridge pot that has spewed forth riches in the past may work for us for a few decades more.
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As I sat there, the china spewed forth from the open door and cascaded down the ready-made ramp into my lap.
venture
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It ventured forth only to kill cattle or flatten crops, poisoning the air with its fetid breath.
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As they venture forth from parents to explore their own worlds, children must make their own discoveries.
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After breakfast I ventured forth , and was at once overwhelmed by the beauty and the scale of the buildings.
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All field-workers took weapons with them, and would venture forth to collect firewood only in large parties.
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Even pony trap revivalists feel safe to venture forth here.
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Twice on Sundays he would thus venture forth , as well as to Evensong on Wednesdays and Fridays.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
and so on/forth
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A central zone leads to other areas where you can test yourself, gain information, do puzzles and so on.
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And so on and so on, the critiques having merit but missing the point.
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Asteroids contain a variety of rare radioactive isotopes of potassium, uranium, thorium, rubidium, and so on.
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I also become more mentally sensitive to social problems, the ills of the world and so on.
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It would have to be done very quietly and so forth and so on.
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Symbols are things that bear some resemblance to what they represent: drawings, silhouettes, and so forth.
back and forth
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Brach flies back and forth weekly, between New York and L.A.
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The chair squeaks when you rock back and forth.
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A few of the mounts shifted their feet; here and there a rider slid his sword back and forth in its scabbard.
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It goes back and forth though.
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My feet hurt, and the side window waggled back and forth each time I kicked it, but nothing else happened.
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Petey heard him trying to brave it out, rocking back and forth to make the pain subside.
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The road twisted, two lanes of blacktop angling back and forth up the side of the mountain.
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They passed it back and forth.
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This gives you the freedom to move back and forth and swing your arm - you must feel free!
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To switch back and forth between the two documents, press Shift-F3.
put forth leaves/shoots/roots etc
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Suddenly as they exchanged memories each saw the other putting forth leaves.
set sth ↔ forth
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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They marched forth into battle.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After a sleepless night Stavrogin sets forth .
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He is champion of the sceptics, and he sallies forth with his banners flying.
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Men passed back and forth from the rank and file.
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More bullets spattered the front of the cottage, drilling lines back and forth in the stonework.
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She hovered back and forth just barely above the ground, often returning to the same area again and again.
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They created an egg from which came forth the sun, who fashioned mankind and gave order to the world.
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To switch back and forth between the two documents, press Shift-F3.
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What horrors will it bring forth ?