noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a gift from God
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Life is a gift from God.
a gift tag (= a tag attached to a gift that says who it is from )
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You can buy gift wrap with matching gift tags.
a gifted child (= extremely intelligent )
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a special school for gifted children
a talented/gifted individual
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He had taken a group of talented individuals and built a superb team.
a wedding present/gift
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He gave them a painting as a wedding present.
accept a gift/present
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Accepting presents from him made her feel uncomfortable.
free gift
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There’s a special free gift with this month’s magazine.
gift certificate
gift shop
gift token
gift wrap
gift
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Her illness made her appreciate more the precious gift of life.
receive a prize/award/gift etc
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He went up to receive his award from the mayor.
toy/pet/shoe/gift etc shop
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Her brother runs a record shop in Chester.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
free
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Last year Golf Monthly gave one of these pitch repairers as a free gift which I still use regularly.
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They want photo stories, tales of holiday romances, horoscopes and advice columns as well as free gifts of make-up and jewellery.
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Hassall Homes, of Wakefield, Yorkshire, is even offering the normal five percent deposit as a free gift .
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And our free gift this month is a recipe leaflet showing you how to create delicious calorie-reduced meals.
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Polished performer Making the most of your free gift .
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The Karimojong happily accepted these unexpected free gifts but have not been too enthusiastic about development projects introduced after the famine.
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There's also a free gift wrapping service on any purchase over £10.
great
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It looks forward to a greater gift in the future while stressing a real gift in the present.
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He had squandered his great gifts of talent, intellect, and personal magnetism.
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The gift of love is the greatest gift a man can give himself.
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He understood that his playing skills were limited, that his greatest gift was the tenacity Laird Cowher had given him.
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The shop - great gifts and souvenirs, superb specialists selection.
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Professional counselors, psychiatrists, and psychiatric hospitals have great gifts to offer.
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It is a state of exaltation of the individual, a great and rare gift of a great and rare invigorating dream.
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The civic culture and the open polity, then, represent the great and problematic gifts of the West.
ideal
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An ideal gift for any student is an adjustable desk lamp, the more flexible the better.
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These will be on sale very soon and would make an ideal Christmas gift .
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Net Set, available in matt black or 14K gold plate finish makes an ideal tennis gift .
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Just the thing for thinking up excuses for sick days and an ideal gift for the hypochondriac in your life.
precious
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He bestowed a precious gift , Touching Mankind's soul world-wide.
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How lucky we all were to be loved by such a woman; what a precious gift she was to us all!
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After all, Tyler's son was the most precious gift of all.
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All that wonderful time is still with us: memory is a precious gift .
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University education was the precious gift they never had.
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That wonderful love they had shared and which had given her the precious gift of a son.
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It seemed to her a precious gift , far more than just an alleviation of present discomfort.
rare
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It is a state of exaltation of the individual, a great and rare gift of a great and rare invigorating dream.
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He had a rare gift for casting presidential power in heroic terms.
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Unfortunately skilled chairmanship is a rare gift .
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Great Groups are made up of people with rare gifts working together as equals.
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Hicks displays a rare gift of extracting informed humour from randomly assembled streams of bemused observation.
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He is a writer of rare gifts , and among his gifts is a capacity to wound.
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But Luke turned out to have the rare gift of making his subject not merely comprehensible, but absorbingly interesting.
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But he was very systematic in his descriptions and had a rare gift for the significant detail.
small
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Directors do not normally expect payment for their services though a small gift might be appropriate.
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The holiday is also celebrated with small gifts for children and the distribution of meat to the needy.
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Even small gifts could strain resources.
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There is a certain woman that glows at the smallest gift .
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Everyone who enters the competition will receive a small gift ..
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Their constant bowing and gestures of gratitude over even a small gift , while charming on the surface, seemed basically artificial.
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She told me that he just had time to wrap a small gift of appreciation.
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When we gave our landlady even a small gift , she would bow half a dozen times and thank us for days.
special
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According to Mensa, some parents resent their child's special ability and do little to encourage their offspring's special gifts .
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Time to get out the tree, the ornaments, the special gift baskets and the ceramic figurines to decorate the house.
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She had encouraged her and taken an interest in her special aptitudes and gifts .
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Cheri has special gifts in fashion and design.
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September 26 is also Grandparents Day - so while you are in Woolworths why not buy them a special card or gift ?
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Molly receives a box of doggie goodies and the runners-up will receive, by post, a special gift .
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The author of each issue's Letter of the Month will receive a special gift of art materials.
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Treat some one special to a gift subscription which will last a whole year!
spiritual
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And the same process can be true of the other spiritual gifts .
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Love, then, stands supreme as the more excellent motivation for the manifestation of spiritual gifts .
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The celibacy that is accepted in the New Testament is one that comes as the result of a spiritual gift .
■ NOUN
birthday
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And there, framed in the open left-hand doorway of the stalls, was the T'ang's birthday gift to his son.
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Joan has also 194 established policies for buying birthday gifts and so forth.
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You can do one of two things when it comes to your subsequent birthday gifts .
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I spent a half-hour recently putting together the ultimate birthday gift for my 5-year-old niece.
certificate
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Show him you are sensitive to his needs with a gift certificate to that utopia of contraptions, Sharper Image.
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Some readers sent department store gift certificates and money for food.
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That includes Harley-Davidson sunglasses, leather biker clothing, bottles of wine and gift certificates .
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Steve immediately sent Alice and her friend $ 50 gift certificates and long written apologies.
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Members in three units receive gift certificates for meeting their goal four consecutive weeks.
christmas
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These will be on sale very soon and would make an ideal Christmas gift .
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Next they began accepting credit cards, running advertising, and promoting park permits as Christmas gifts .
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Its new Web site offers one thousand items for sale, mostly targeted towards the Christmas gift market.
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I got mine as a Christmas gift .
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Of course, an attractively arranged selection of sweets also makes a lovely Christmas gift .
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During December, people shop for Christmas gifts .
horse
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But never one to look a gift horse in the mouth, I say, be gracious and accept this delightful offering.
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That villain of a landlord was not the one to look a gift horse in the mouth.
idea
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As there was a tendency for it to rain outside this gift idea was doubly welcome!
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A super gift idea is a sports movie video.
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Unique gift ideas range from personalized quilts and cushions to covered baskets.
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Time to Learn Here is another gift idea with the children in mind.
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Then give your gift ideas a financial flavour.
shop
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The owners have built a gift shop and a tastefully laid out caravan site on the actual station area.
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In the gift shop , a signature plastic vase by Gaetano Pesce had been placed on the floor inside the door.
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Springer says the exhibition area will not include a museum, theater or gift shop .
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Refreshment facilities, restaurant, picnic areas and gift shop .
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There also is a gift shop and restaurant.
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As we hadn't bought our wedding rings, we had to make do with cheap imitations from the hospital gift shop .
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Sunday morning, Rice was in a hotel gift shop .
voucher
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There is nothing wrong with ensuring that a benefiting nation spends its gift vouchers in our national shops.
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A friendly hug and gift vouchers were her reward at her happy long service presentation.
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Julian, together with a £10 gift voucher , is presented to the month's most successful business developer.
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He scored an impressive 14 out of 15 correct answers and scooped gift vouchers as first prize.
wedding
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The small heated swimming pool hidden from view near the rose walk was a wedding gift from the Army.
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Yes, he would give Ebert the lookalike as an early wedding gift .
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This was Nahum's wedding gift to his bride.
wrap
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Give your gifts a special finishing touch by making this sparkly gift wrap .
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Keep holiday gift wrap in good condition from year to year.
■ VERB
accept
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But Aurangzeb's troops forbade the holy man to accept the gift .
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They must ask her, she told them, to show that she accepted the gift by wearing it at once.
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It was Martha who finally made the decision to accept Harry's gift .
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The official reason was that I accepted a gift from a vendor, something which I was told violated company policy.
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S Teach them the dangers of talking to strangers and not to accept sweets or gifts .
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More than 20 people accepted gifts .
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He had also accepted the gift of a jet ski from a construction company seeking public works contracts.
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The panel also cited Wright for accepting gifts and benefits from a Fort Worth developer.
bring
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Dawn brings a gift of spider webs flashing diamonds on sea-grey gorse.
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We had Mike home for meals all the time, and Mike was always bringing gifts .
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As he rose in the county bureaucracy, rich people brought him gifts to stay on his good side.
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On this occasion Swift brought him a gift of £20 from Bolingbroke.
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The woman had had the baby there a few months back and had returned to thank the nurses and bring them gifts .
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Each guest, as was customary, brought a gift for the bride-to-be, except Perseus alone.
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Each brought the gift of their presence, made more precious by the pain or awkwardness of its giving.
buy
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Postage stamps from the famed, tiny republic of San Marino are very often bought as souvenirs or gifts .
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So we go on vacation and buy gifts for the other parents.
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They hope families will succumb to the traditional last-minute dash to buy gifts .
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Joan has also 194 established policies for buying birthday gifts and so forth.
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Somewhere to treat yourself or buy that special gift .
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She really puts a lot of thought into buying her gifts .
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Online has launched an online shopping guide that gives advice to consumers who want to buy Christmas gifts over the Web.
give
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Anpetuwi, which had given his family the gift of love, generation after generation.
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Obviously, the person who gave you the gift wanted to.
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He gave the only gift in his power and, removing his eyes from Eochaid's, dropped on one knee.
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He gives her money, gifts , love.
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Just 30 percent give a gift to clients.
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This potential is a given , a gift , and has nothing to do with our own abilities or talents.
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Two months' later, he gave Jessica a second gift .
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Often, as he gave away his gifts , he closed his eyes and lifted his chin.
make
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If taxpayers wish to make gifts to such trusts then they have to look for their exemptions elsewhere.
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Its aim was to solve the agonizing agrarian problem by persuading landowners to make voluntary gifts of land.
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Abolish the present inheritance tax and make recipients pay on gifts above a certain band as income.
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But before we lose the spirit of Christmas, will you make one more gift of kindness?
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It says, in effect, that people who invest in children will be making gifts to the system.
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Space should always be made for the prophetic gifts of the Spirit as well as for preaching here.
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A publican had to make sure that the gift was not too obvious.
offer
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Because no other catalogue offers such exciting gifts from all over the world - at such value for money prices.
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It is never offered as a gift .
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Lear pretends to be offering a gift , but is in fact extorting a bribe.
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Easy - offer them a free gift .
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But no; they wandered by him, offering themselves like gifts - pick, choose; pick, choose.
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Tell him that a young lady who has read his story with interest and affection offers them as a gift .
present
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Jo Heaton, from Formby, was presented with flowers and gifts .
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She saw the odd -, ob boy taking Polaroids of the customers which Jack will present as gifts .
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They arrive, having followed the star, and present their gifts to the child.
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For the next two months, Puss continued to present the king with gifts from the marquis.
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Some of them presented her with gifts that had been made in the centre's workshops.
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Mr Wilkinson, patient care manager, will be presented with a leaving gift this afternoon.
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At the reception the Mayor will be presenting a personal gift of a salver to the team.
receive
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Everyone who enters the competition will receive a small gift ..
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But then in mid-June the protestors received an unexpected gift .
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The author of each issue's Letter of the Month will receive a special gift of art materials.
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I never learned why the Vanyas singled me out to receive this gift .
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Demonstrators whoop and holler as colleagues receive gifts ... a Tupperware colander ... an Oriental rug.
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Every child received a beautiful gift from the company.
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Jacob must insist that Esau receives his gifts , because of what they represent.
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Members in three units receive gift certificates for meeting their goal four consecutive weeks.
send
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Please send your gift straight away.
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Some readers sent department store gift certificates and money for food.
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On his second mission to the west Zhang Qian was sent with massive gifts of cattle, sheep, silk and gold.
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Otherwise, peer at your child through the window. Send gifts .
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Even so, it was odd that he hadn't sent his son a gift .
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Before leaving he sent General Smuts a gift of a pair of leather sandals he had made in prison.
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She sent him letters and gifts .
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I sent the gift 10 days after the wedding.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
God's gift to sb/sth
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John thinks he's God's gift to tennis.
a parting kiss/gift/glance etc
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And every couple receives a case of Lygon Arms' dry white wine or claret as a parting gift.
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Right: Jeff Lowe receives a parting gift from Chris Bonington.
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They would send him home that very day and every man present would give him a parting gift to enrich him.
book/record/gift token
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A £10 book token will be awarded to the sender of the first correct solution opened on Thursday 7 March.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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I'm going to go pick up a birthday gift for Uncle Warren, and then I'm going to go and see him.
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I bought this CD as a gift for Jane, but she's already got it.
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I got this jacket as a gift . I wouldn't have chosen this color myself.
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In the hall was a magnificent vase, which was a gift from a Japanese businessman.
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It was a gift to the US from the Chinese people.
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The earrings were a gift for my birthday.
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There's a gift shop in the hotel. They have jewelry and souvenirs and stuff.
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These candlesticks would make a lovely gift .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Give your gifts a special finishing touch by making this sparkly gift wrap.
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He had also built a reading room for the agricultural labourers and made other substantial gifts.
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Just ask the organization if a gift qualifies as a tax deduction.
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Look at some of these gifts, as devoted fans of his might call them.
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She took the two gifts from her handbag and set them on the table.
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The railroad land grants were a gift the size of California plus the major part of Montana.
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They have been able to keep up stocks of medical supplies, largely due to gifts of money.