I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
garage band
garage sale
newspaper/garage/cafe etc proprietor
parking garage
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
double
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To the right there was a ramp down to a double garage on basement level.
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Each Hadon home has a double garage .
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It includes master bedroom with ensuite shower room, three further bedrooms, second bathroom, gas central heating, double garage .
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Three bedrooms, gas central heating, full sealed unit double glazing, garage , manageable gardens.
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The house had a double garage which Millar turned into a study and office.
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It was the size of a double garage , open on one side, built of stone and roofed with tiles.
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Number forty-seven was a huge red-brick house in gracious grounds, with a double garage and parking space for three more cars.
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A coach-house of slightly later vintage served as a double garage .
local
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Keeping a car fully maintained at your local cost-a-lot garage can work out at a small fortune - and it never ends.
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So Swannson-on-Wheels will gain considerable benefit from the purchase of a relatively local garage facility on the outskirts of Tetbury.
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The guide will be available in local garages , at the tourist information centre and in guest houses.
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A local garage owner has leant them a car to help in the short term.
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Your local garage should be able to do a quick spot-check and tell you.
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Richard sells the charcoal to local shops and garages .
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I explain to them that the local garage which supplied us with petrol has closed and we therefore no longer have an account.
old
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The old garage across the road is to be demolished and sold.
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He bought old refrigerators at garage sales and turned them into coolers for storing his flowers.
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Dad's old garage , still doing business.
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The houses in this raw, rocky canyon are made from wooden pallets and old garage doors.
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Next door was an old brick garage , which I converted into a cottage for my Nan.
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There are no individual addresses. Old garage doors are treated as building materials.
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That will involve, subject to planning permission, pulling down the old Knowles garage and building luxury apartments.
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The company starts with shortwave radio, the old garage hobby of all those curious middle-aged guys down the block.
underground
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They said little after that and Sorge was soon being escorted, with Nowak, down to the underground garage .
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However, no one got out and the driver pulled into an underground garage and away from the people.
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They drove directly into the underground garage off Hermann Goering Strasse.
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The architects also used the hill to house an underground parking garage .
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He parked the car in an underground garage near the hotel.
■ NOUN
bus
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Another bomb fell in front of the bus garage at South Croydon on 10 May 1941.
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Just beyond the station, Elmers End bus garage was built and opened, also in 1929.
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On the right is the old St. Annes tram depot, now a bus garage .
door
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She pushed against the garage door and it slid upwards.
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The club owner said he gave them a garage door opener and let one deputy spend the night.
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Passing discreetly through the solid wood of the garage door he slid right into the skulking Omally.
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He backed her out of the parking space, then drove towards the automatic garage doors .
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The driver swung wide around my car and paused, apparently activating an automatic garage door .
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She put away the car, quietly locked the garage door and stood for a few moments looking out over the valley.
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Up ahead, in North Dakota, storm clouds came all the way down to the ground like an overhead garage door .
floor
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This was the world's first sports car that didn't leave a puddle on your garage floor .
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Barnabas sat down at once and gazed at him, mopping the garage floor with his tail.
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At his command all four took off their masks and tracksuit tops and threw them through the windows on to the garage floor .
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His wife found the body on the garage floor .
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Floor , garage floor, and step paints are hard wearing and not slippery, although they can not be called non-slip.
owner
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Career motor trader and garage owner .
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A local garage owner has leant them a car to help in the short term.
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Suddenly the garage owner , whom you still employ to maintain the car, hauls you into court to block the sale.
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And the professional job has other garage owners in the Omagh area worried.
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Shopkeepers, garage owners , hoteliers etc., will happily accept such cheques knowing they will receive their money.
proprietor
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Did the garage proprietor also make a contract of sale in relation to the World Cup coins?
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First, they claimed that the garage proprietor made no contract at all with the customer in relation to the World Cup coins.
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There was not just one contract made between the garage proprietor and the customer.
roof
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I went and sat in the sun on the garage roof , now that it was quiet.
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By the year 2001 the tracks will circle the perimeter of the short-term parking garage roof in the middle of the loop.
sale
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He bought old refrigerators at garage sales and turned them into coolers for storing his flowers.
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We have to be careful, my family, around thrift stores and antique stores and garage sales .
■ VERB
build
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Dad and Pop had built a garage and had just finished laying a concrete drive.
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That project will have to wait until Ridolfi finishes building a second garage .
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It was an old red-brick building surrounded by wooden garages and old trees that stuck up from behind fences.
convert
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Asbestos safety Q I would like to convert my garage into a fish house.
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About 25 million people are working from spare bedrooms, paneled basements and converted garages .
find
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Confided Paula Gilfoyle was found hanging from a garage beam at her Wirral home on June 4, last year.
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The children were found in the garage wearing only soiled diapers; one of them was covered with paint.
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Again I had time to find a garage that had opened early and had a welder.
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I once got up at three in the morning and found John in the garage working on a car.
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She found the garage well alight.
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Curtain rods found on shelf in garage of Ruth Paine.
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Five months later he was found dead in his garage , having hanged himself.
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At any rate, he had soon found a garage , and one with a mechanic who worked on a Sunday.
keep
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The coveted ingredient is discreetly kept in the garage .
leave
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Fogarty left the garage and went inside the house.
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Whether to take Barnabas to the office or leave him in the garage .
lock
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She put away the car, quietly locked the garage door and stood for a few moments looking out over the valley.
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Sister Maria Kisito supplied the petrol that the militiamen used to set alight a locked garage in which 500 people sheltered.
open
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Another says he has been unable to open his garage door for days after a skip filled with bricks was dumped outside.
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Then he turned his attention to the door that opened into the garage .
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He padded softly down the steps and along the hall, then opened the garage door and turned on the light.
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Suddenly he was on his feet and opening the garage door.
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At any rate, Mom decides her greatest desire is for the genie to open and close the garage door for her.
own
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Fred owns a garage and has tried to get everything together ready for the business accounts to be drawn up.
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The carpenter knew a man who owned a garage and who still had a truck, more or less in working order.
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He used to own a garage , that one with the big car showrooms on the High Street.
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He owned a garage and a used-car lot.
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Mr Maxmilian Frizzell owned the biggest garage and car salesroom in Tollemarche.
park
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Unfortunately, it was damaged in the 1994 earthquake while parked in his garage .
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For example, Wynns floated the idea of eliminating surface street parking near the museum in exchange for a parking garage .
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She parked outside the garage and turned off the engine.
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By the year 2001 the tracks will circle the perimeter of the short-term parking garage roof in the middle of the loop.
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Downtown business types worry about things like access to parking garages .
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It was supposed to have been turned into a parking garage long before now.
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They also uncovered more than 60 sticks of wired dynamite in the trunk of a car parked in a Vallejo garage .
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Museum trustees argue that a parking garage must be built to satisfy the needs of their vehicle-dependent patrons.
run
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But he used their names to advertise a Human Potential Centre run from a garage next to his home.
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I ran a garage business there.
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Mr Dodd realised his hands were on fire and ran from the garage .
steal
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The owner had put up a £1,000 reward after the red car was stolen from his garage in Warwick.
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The most valuable, worth £750, was stolen from a garage in Linden Avenue.
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Bikes stolen: Two mountain bikes worth £2,550 have been stolen from the garage of a house in Eglinton Avenue, Guisborough.
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Garage raid: A computer and a portable cassette player worth £180 were stolen from a garage in Northallerton.
turn
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He went to the window, made sure her car wasn't coming, or turning into the communal garage .
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It was supposed to have been turned into a parking garage long before now.
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Next year she plans to turn the garage into a games room for table tennis.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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It was supposed to have been turned into a parking garage long before now.
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She was found hanged by a rope in the garage of their home.
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Simon Cormack was detached from his ankle-chain and both men were led upstairs, through the house and into the garage .
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The guy who brought it from the garage would remember very well.
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The high-jump stand was thrown into the garage and I entered the Grove Model School on a 20-week course.
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They add that if the museum is to remain in the park, an underground garage would be vital.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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It wasn't forth garaging the car for a couple of hours, which was all the time he could allow himself.