noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a departure gate (= an exit from an airport to get a particular flight )
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It was a long walk with all our luggage to the departure gate.
an entrance gate/door
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Soldiers were guarding the entrance gate.
gated community
pearly gates
starting gate
the factory gates (= the entrance to a factory )
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A crowd of protesters had gathered outside the factory gates.
the garden gate (= the gate between a garden and the street )
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Martin was waiting by the garden gate.
wicket gate
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
back
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We left by the back gate of the manor following a trackway through a wood.
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The back gate was raised, the canvas flaps lowered, and we were on our way.
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We deployed on to the cold, deserted streets, two teams from the back gate and one from the front.
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I got in through the back gate without being challenged.
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She entered the kitchen from the back gate closing the door on the small yard with a click of finality.
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He opened the little back gate and peered around in the dark for the shelter.
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I can open the back gate at midnight.
front
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In autumn a rowan tree at the front gate was showered with berries.
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They locked the front gates of their Seoul home, my residence, and would not let me out.
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At the front gate , I paused.
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Every day seeing her husband and her boys approach the front gate .
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Motor cycles will roar away from the front gates and, later, cars.
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Even more daunting is a flight of 5 steps to her front gate .
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Once we had arrived at my place I parked the car and led Amanda through my front gate and up to the flat.
great
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Corbett asked the others to stay at the great gate whilst he went across the open square.
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Wherever it was, the entrance to it was a great gate of clouds kept by the Seasons.
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In this wall was a great wrought-iron gate of eighteenth-century workmanship.
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The seven great gates which were the Thebans' pride remained closed, and famine drew near to the citizens.
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Cranston and Athelstan pushed by him and hammered at the great gate .
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The white buildings of the cortijo, with its great gate and tower, still dominated the yellow landscape.
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They manned the towers and bastions and the great gates were shut fast.
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A small postern door in the great gate opened.
main
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Faintly disappointed, she emptied her lungs and resumed the walk which would bring her to the main gate .
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Two months after I had driven through the main gates , I finally got to the flight line.
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A boy has come off his motor-cycle at the roundabout outside the main gates .
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Most visitors to the preserve now park their cars outside the main gate and either hike, bike or ride horses in.
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It was originally the main town gate , built by Matej Rejsek in 1475-:83, and decorated in a marvellously intricate style.
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Once inside the main gate you could see how hard the designers were working to make it neat.
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The ride begins at 10.30am outside the main gates to Sherwood Forest Visitor Centre.
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Selkirk and four soldiers, well-armed, carrying picks and shovels, were waiting rather self-consciously near the main gate .
open
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Jimmy, entering through the open gates , stared at the motorcar, a sign of real riches.
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Several women and a man stand before the open wooden gates of the courtyard of the church.
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A late crow said a word as her entry through the open drive gate disturbed his first sleep.
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So he threw open the gates and welcomed all baptized persons into full church membership.
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They ran, on rubbery legs, through an open gate and across a dirt yard towards the lit window.
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I pushed open the creaking gate and ventured inside.
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The tall man had been leaning against the stable's open gates , but straightened up as Lucille appeared from the house.
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We mounted and rode across the darkened causeway, past the sentry, half-sleeping at the open gates and on to the trackway.
pearly
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And it's five, six, seven, open up the pearly gates .
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St Peter had opened the pearly gates and St John Ogilvie had prodded home the penalty.
wooden
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A brief moon between clouds outside sharpened the lines of boxwood that led to the wooden gate .
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They led us through the narrow streets to the tall wooden gate of the ryokan.
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She paused to stare at a wooden gate swinging crazily on its hinges.
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Several women and a man stand before the open wooden gates of the courtyard of the church.
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Tom carefully opened a sagging wooden gate and went up a stone path that led around the side of the house.
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A few pointed inquiries brought me to an old wooden gate that was in need of repair.
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They pushed open the long wooden gate where he sat.
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A narrow weaving crazy path Leads to a wooden gate , While cats slink along the wall From dusk until I wake.
■ NOUN
city
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It has a rich and colourful history, which can still be traced in its fortifications, towers and old city gates .
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The bride was too tall, and riding into the city could not fit under the city gate .
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There are towers at intervals for reinforcement and there are eight fortified city gates which were originally richly decorated with sculptural work.
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The two neatly fit under the city gate , and the groom counted a third fool to himself.
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The main roads within the city gates are paved with dark local stone and have pavements and kerbstones.
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He had ordered the opening of the city gates and capitulation.
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The King had decided I would stay in the largest available building, just outside the city gates .
entrance
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The old citadel remains; a fortified entrance gate , a ruined keep, some fine slabs of wall.
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Three Miramar entrance gates -- main, north and west -- will be open for visitors.
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The Usher Art Gallery decided that it needed to replace its imposing main entrance gates which were taken away in the war.
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The single entrance gate bears a lock from the age of dungeons.
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However, those who passed through the entrance gates where Hades stood might never return to the mortal world.
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The windows overlooked the long drive to distant entrance gates .
factory
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People must turn up at the proverbial factory gates fresh, fit and ready to toil.
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Mr Peters asks the highly relevant question: why do so many workers leave their talents at the factory gate ?
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The second order relates to the banning of meetings in the vicinity of the factory gates .
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The danger of an upturn in inflation was highlighted today in figures showing the price of goods leaving the factory gate .
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Cars were pouring out of the factory gates when he reached them and two buses added to the congestion.
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City economists also worried that factory gate price inflation was proving difficult to curb.
farm
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Those with milking herds had a ready market for farm gate sales of butter and cheese.
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The tractor ruts led straight on to a farm gate .
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And here, barring the road, was the familiar old farm gate still in place.
garden
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Why did his knees creak like a garden gate when he sat down beside her?
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Walking home, he goes through one large garden gate , only to see the other one fall down.
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These are the Buddhist counterparts of the cherubim stationed by Yahweh at the garden gate .
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Once, I remember, she even lay down by the garden gate .
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Gates gone: Tyneside police are investigating a spate of thefts of wrought iron garden gates .
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The wherry pulled in and we disembarked at the great garden gate .
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An elderly couple were leaning over their garden gate .
iron
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Within a dozen yards, I came to a set of iron gates closing off the steps east of the high altar.
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An ornate iron gate presided over its entrance.
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They walked towards the tall iron gates of the school.
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The wrought iron gate , as usual, was open and he parked in front of the house.
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Each house had an iron gate and a short tiled path up to the front door.
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I awoke to find myself still standing before the water-colour painting of the curled iron gate .
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Decorative projecting bricks, alcoves, wrought iron gates , and so on, are a security risk.
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At the entrance to the driveway were large iron gates .
lock
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The rising water, filling the channel, meant that it was not difficult to reach Simon from the Lock gates .
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The jarrah timbers from the tracks were gradually used in the repair of lock gates .
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He sat astride the Lock gates and began to pull himself out along the top of them.
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Leakage at the lock gates and sluices. 4.
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I took the dinghy as far as we could go, right up near to the lock gates .
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They are used mainly for inspection of foundations, assessing the condition of lock gates and checking the progress of repair work.
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He began to run towards the Lock gates .
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Then she saw him, hanging on to one of the many bracing beams that ran horizontally across the Lock gates .
receipt
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Official attendance at Windsor Park was 6,500 but gate receipts for the international reflected a crowd of 9,000!
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They used to keep the gate receipts in a brown paper bag.
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Recently relegated to the first division, the projected loss of Premier League gate receipts meant a further deficit of £400,000.
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We get our revenue from two sources, gate receipts and television.
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Even membership subscriptions and gate receipts held up.
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The gate receipts are going down faster than the guys who step into the ring against him.
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Leave popular players out of your side and gate receipts could drop.
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Unless Anderson has come up with a new math, the restriction means a $ 250, 000 reduction in gate receipts .
school
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I took the steps in big bounds and pelted across the asphalt to the school gates .
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When she reached the school gate she discovered that there was no-one there.
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Mummies don't chair board meetings, mummies are the people who wait at the school gate in the rain.
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More significant than these are the phrases which imply that teachers have a responsibility which extends beyond the school gates .
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There were three or four cars lined up outside the junior school gates .
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I know that in Beirut I simply took my child through the checkpoints and delivered her at the school gates .
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They have to sort out the problem before the caretaker locks the school gates .
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The fight at the school gates has for ever been a staple of playground life.
wicket
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Turn left into Bleak Terrace and go back on to the Fell through the wicket gate to the village boundary wall.
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The huddled figure shambled alongside the yew hedge towards the wicket gate .
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Cranston pulled at the bell and they were allowed through a wicket gate built into the ponderous door.
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He went up through the wicket gate and into the cemetery, a quiet, surprisingly well-kept plot.
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Outside the wicket gate he paused for a moment before setting off along the Backs in the direction of the town centre.
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The Co-operative also had double doors with a wicket gate leading into a cobbled yard.
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We brought her in, four of us carrying her on a wicket gate .
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But the rector was opening the wicket gate at the side of the public house, and vanished from sight.
■ VERB
close
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In 1963, the Bureau closed the gates of Glen Canyon Dam.
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Once I was outside, I left the engine running and ran back to close the gate .
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Development, so denied, often results in closed gates , bad affect, boredom, and mindlessness among students and teachers.
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The Rifleman ducked under the arch, then waited as Harper closed the two heavy gates .
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The closed gate suddenly seemed miles away.
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They could close the gates and have him bottled up.
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Affect is the gatekeeper and determines whether the gates are open or closed .
drive
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I pulled out of the eight, stamped the accelerator down through the floor and drove for a gate .
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Two months after I had driven through the main gates , I finally got to the flight line.
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They drove through the gates and up the avenue of ancient lime trees.
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He hid his face as his gray sedan drove through the prison gates .
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I couldn't leave, not if we drove past my gate .
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As Miller related it to his mates later, they were both asleep when they drove through the gates .
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I drove through the main gate .
enter
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Jimmy, entering through the open gates , stared at the motorcar, a sign of real riches.
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I enter the fiery gates at noon.
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This is the first piece of fantasy that greets you when you enter the gates of the Studios.
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A pleasant-looking woman with a pleasing Seoul accent greeted my father as he entered the gate .
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From this you may form some idea of their distress, and the holy violence used in entering the strait gate .
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They were all pleased to enter the great gates of Holy Rood Abbey though Corbett sensed there was something wrong.
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From here cross the road and enter the church gate .
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Although entrance is free we have to lay aside everything to enter through the narrow gate , so that it costs us everything.
guard
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Two green glazed lions guarded the gates to keep evil spirits at bay.
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Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from inside.
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Hence, there are now two uniformed security guards at the gate to Treasure Island at all times, Florin said.
lead
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A brief moon between clouds outside sharpened the lines of boxwood that led to the wooden gate .
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Near the edge of town she surprised me by taking my hand and leading me to the gates of the cemetery.
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He led us through a gate and into a perfect little rose garden.
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He walked up to the main court and took the path that led to the gate nearest his street.
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Pass through this and follow the wall on your left which leads to another kissing gate .
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A stilted walkway led through a gate to the sand.
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She led her to the gate .
leave
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We left by the back gate of the manor following a trackway through a wood.
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His campaign never even left the starting gate .
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He left a gate open and Mr Cod wandered off, never to be seen again.
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There were too many thieves in the village to leave it outside the gate .
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The danger of an upturn in inflation was highlighted today in figures showing the price of goods leaving the factory gate .
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The answer lies in those muttering organelles left behind at the gate when the sperm entered the egg.
pass
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After he passed the gate , only toe prints could be seen.
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If any of the rabble attempt to pass the palace gates , blast them out of existence.
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Enter farmyard, turn right and keep right, to pass through gate and on to road.
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Every day refugees pulling carts passed the gates of the Institution.
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Soon he was cannoning off lime trees and, as they passed the second gates , crashed into the left-hand gatepost.
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We heard a suppressed murmuring and smelled rotting rags and old urine as we passed the gate .
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As they passed through the gate , Vasilissa took one of the skulls.
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They passed through two gates , one of horn through which true dreams went, one of ivory for false dreams.
reach
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Norman reached the allotment gates and peered around.
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They looked back once more when they reached the gate .
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Pass through this and cross the meadow to reach a metal gate with a stone stile at the side of it.
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We reached the border gate at half past four and when we did, the bus came to an abrupt stop.
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In the fourth where the track to the farm bears right, keep walking on the grass until you reach a gate .
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He reached a gate and turned from the road.
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After a short distance you reach a gate with a gap at the side.
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When they reached the lower gate everyone was watching the mill, the strikers, the loggers, the blackshirts.
shut
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She was on call to open and shut the gates at any hour, in any weather.
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Water managers have already shut a gate north of the crash site to reduce the southerly flow of water.
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He shut the gate behind Willie and the wetness from the top splashed into his face.
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If it shut the gate at night, the traffic would cease.
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He shut the gate then just ran straight out on to the road.
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But the town remained steadfastly loyal to the Old King and shut its gates against him.
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Others were fighting to shut the gate , pushing against the sheer bodyweight of the beasts in the gateway.
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She glanced back as she shut the gate behind her.
stand
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Three days ago on our way up here we passed a field with two horses standing at a five-bar gate .
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A small army of men toting machine guns stood at the gate , which slowly swung open in front of us.
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Then she was standing at the church gates and looking down Lyra Street; looking, but not understanding.
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Hairy Back was smoking his pipe and laughing with a neighbour as he stood at his gate .
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I stood before the gate awhile and looked into the courtyard, breathing in garbage and sewer odors and another indescribable smell.
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In the film they stood at the gates of a temple.
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I just stood outside the gates and watched.
start
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Pete is also about to start renovating the gates for Bathurst Park in Cirencester.
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His campaign never even left the starting gate .
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An important Hollywood Park race is run at the wrong distance after the starting gate is positioned incorrectly.
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If your horse didn't make it to the starting gate , sorry, there's no refund.
stop
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As he stopped at the gate of the field, Bathsheba looked up and noticed him.
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What if you guys had been stopped at the gate ?
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Late one night, he stopped at the gates of a Franciscan monastery to seek shelter.
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But for Gingrich, politics never stopped at the campus gate .
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Although there is a growing literature on prisons, prison research arbitrarily stops at the prison gates .
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I stopped beside a gate and examined my shoe but found nothing wrong with it.
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Square buses stop by the gate and laugh to themselves.
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Everything went according to plan and at noon the steward was stopped at the gate .
swing
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The two cars swing out of the palace gates , and disappear down the avenue.
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Tom swung the graveyard gate to one side and Sammy shot through jumping and barking in the puddles.
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The jeep swung towards the gates of the sports ground, where more crowds were in place to cheer him.
turn
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She turned at the gate and waved to me.
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She didn't turn into the gates , although they were open.
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They looked perfectly ordinary, and they turned in through the gates and went up the drive.
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He'd turned back towards the gates when a noise made him whip round.
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Reluctantly Theodora turned towards the gate to walk back to the Julians' and the interrogatory telephone.
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It turned in at the gate and came chuntering up the track to pull up beside them.
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It was ten o'clock when he turned in between the lodge gates and guided the Porsche down the winding drive to Tavey Grange.
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Blanche Arbuthnot turned in through the gates of her old home.
wait
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At the house of the Chief Scribe, Reni's major domo was waiting at the gate to meet them.
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Peach waited by the gate to the villa, searching the dark road anxiously for the lights of the car.
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Most days, Debon accompanies her and is waiting outside the gate when the final bell rings.
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I wait by the gate as they pick their way down to the slimy bottom of the dip.
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More often than not she would give it to a starving family waiting at the gate .
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Mummies don't chair board meetings, mummies are the people who wait at the school gate in the rain.
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We know that he kept away from the moor, so it's unlikely that he waited at the moor gate every evening.
walk
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They walked by a large gate and an enormous, neatly-kept garden.
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He could hear him as he walked on towards the gate .
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Few know when they may see their husbands, or what to expect when they walk through the gates .
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She walked up to the gate at the end of Kee's garden and waited.
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Kiah and Rilla walked to the gate .
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He was smiling as he walked through the hospital gates .
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In a while I saw Heathcliff walking through the gate .
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Slowly she walked back towards the gates of the Hall.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
like a bull at a gate
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They may fight like a lion or go at something like a bull at a gate.
the pearly gates
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a garden gate
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The new Disney movie took a gate of $4.6 million.
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This game should get the biggest gate ever.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Enter farmyard, turn right and keep right, to pass through gate and on to road.
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Gritz and his team immediately drove in a recreational vehicle to the gate at Justus Township, Smith said.
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Next morning the sun rose to see a variety of signs hanging, not always squarely, on the battered quarry gate .
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On the next day the old king hid at the gate and observed it all.
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They walked towards the tall iron gates of the school.
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With the gates yet to come down, there is little agreement on how deregulation might shake out in the industry.