I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a border guard
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the North Korean border guards
a closely guarded/well-kept secret (= a secret that few people are allowed to know )
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The recipe is a closely guarded secret.
a guard dog (= trained to guard a building )
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The guard dog growled at him.
a prison officer/official/warder/guard
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Last month, a prisoner attacked two prison officers with a knife.
a security guard
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There are armed security guards outside the palace.
armed guard
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The prisoners were kept under armed guard .
cautious/guarded optimism (= the belief that a future situation will be good or better than before, although you cannot be not sure )
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The U.N. sees cause for cautious optimism in what has been achieved so far.
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He expressed guarded optimism about the company's future.
closely controlled/guarded/monitored etc
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Political activity is closely controlled.
color guard
guard dog
guard duty (= job of guarding a place )
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There were two soldiers on guard duty outside the embassy.
guard's van
jealously guarded
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a jealously guarded secret
National Guard
security guard
splash guard
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
armed
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An armed guard stood there in the doorway, head bowed, a clean silk pau folded over one arm.
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Inside, more armed officers stood guard .
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On landing, Sly was shown to his chalet by a uniformed and armed guard .
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He moved down the corridor and around the corner, where two more armed guards stood, alert, against either wall.
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The room is dimly lit and the regalia are mounted in a centrally placed glass case. Armed guards stand watch.
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Still, they met us with fire trucks; we were politely assigned an armed guard and warned not to take pictures.
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I shall have the staff escort you home under armed guard !
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He flashed his security pass under the eyes of the two armed guards posted beside the exit door.
national
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A., Daley called Governor Kerner and told him he wanted the national guard .
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The national guard of Jalisco, however, remained loyal to the government.
old
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But the old guard in the leadership sends in the tanks and introduces a new phase of vicious repression.
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Nobody likes them, this old guard , but nobody can get them out.
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It is probably as much to do with an influx of younger golfers and a falling away of the old guard .
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He was then a 20-year-\#old security guard inside the Chicago Amphitheater where the delegates met.
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It's a similar deal to the one that brought another of Wigan's old guard , Andy Gregory, to Headingley.
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The old guard , too fond of international conferences, has given way to a younger breed of activist.
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The old guard who had stopped us talking before ambled past the wire on the outside.
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But the old guard at the Louvreare reluctant to back down.
presidential
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More shots rang out, and presidential security guards raced on to the stage from the wings, guns drawn, some blazing.
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Just three years after his grab for power, Castillo Armas died at the hands of his own presidential guard .
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A force of 70 gunmen opened fire on the compound with automatic weapons and grenade-launchers, according to presidential guard commander Maj.
rear
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Try to scoop the outstretched foot with your rear guard hand.
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He informed us that our brigade was to be the rear guard of the army, which was in full retreat.
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Slide diagonally forwards, catching the opponent's front kick with your rear guard hand.
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As feminist symbols, they are in the rear guard .
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As before, the rear guard hand must never cross the body's centre-line.
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He skirted the house to the rear , but guards were also there.
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Let your rear guard hand move forwards slightly as you do this.
senior
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Maloney and senior guard Andy Rice each had 17 points for Catholic.
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McCormick, a senior guard , had 19 points to lead Pace.
■ NOUN
border
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It takes only an hour to drive from Gaza to Jerusalem, if you don't have to endure obstructive border guards .
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His adversaries include still more cossacks, a border guard or two, a rabbi, and a pugilist.
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Here, a border guard and two customs officers, all in uniform, came aboard to inspect our documents.
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Certainly he had bribed more border guards and Communist officials than he could remember.
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The bikes were, technically, contraband, but the border guards turned a blind eye.
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Last November, after bribing the border guards , she crossed the frozen Tumen with her blind daughter.
coast
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The end of Grand Isle hosts the coast guard headquarters.
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Across from us, the coast guard station is quiet.
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The field station consists of a modern Ann Exe built on to the old coast guard station.
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As is the way of coast guard stations, it once had waves lapping at its doorstep.
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The coast guard impound boats if they find anything.
duty
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Valenzuela himself was promoted from guard duty to acting as a back-up in kidnapping operations.
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Some whites tried to help black families by aiding in guard duty .
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One of my less distinguished military experiences came when I fell asleep on guard duty .
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I could imagine what it would be like to be on perimeter guard duty on a night like this.
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Night guard duty was killing time that had died while you weren't looking and so it went on for ever.
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People who never had to do it kept saying how important guard duty was.
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The trick of doing guard duty was very simple.
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Thus the two men on guard duty were not excited by the unhurried approach of a pair of dimmed headlights.
point
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The new one comes complete with a point ring measure and point guard .
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Only the point guards fit that description on this club.
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Jacque has been a point guard since he came out of the womb.
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The starting point guard committed 12 turnovers Saturday.
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The best point guard is struggling with a recurring hand injury.
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She is in control without making a big show of it the way some other point guards do.
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They forced Mingo Johnson, the Memphis point guard , into a 5-for-18 shooting night.
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Stanford used some physical play inside and the playmaking of point guard Brevin Knight to take the lead from the outset.
prison
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Most of the prison guards ran away, with the prisoners.
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Since I was the only child in the jail, the prison guards were nice to me.
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At one stage, the prison guards went on strike, claiming the prisoners were better armed than them.
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After 75 days of being brutalized and sexually assaulted by other inmates and ignored by the prison guards , Rodney hanged himself.
security
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Past the security guard , up the ramp, out on to the dim street.
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Currently Zandrino works as a security guard at a Healdsburg winery.
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When Dexter met the superintendent twenty minutes later, Blanche stood outside the Inside Out office still chatting to the security guard .
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Some one gets ill or injured, or taunts a security guard , or keeps up serious noise all night long.
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A security guard suffered serious head injuries, while another person suffered deep cuts from flying glass.
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The president of Shawmut Bank gave her a badge and made her an honorary security guard .
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Their aim was to subdue security guards and cut paintings from their frames.
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It ended in a shouting match, with Milken being escorted from the building by a security guard .
■ VERB
arm
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An on-site undercover operative can offer an employer protection without the presence of an armed guard .
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He holed up in his residence with a few hundred armed guards .
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The pilot arrives in an ambulance, with armed guards .
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Both sides came frilly armed and on their guard .
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The government placed a heavy armed guard around the prison.
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The armed guard at the gate was slow to salute.
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As corporations worry about workplace violence, armed security guards find themselves in more demand.
catch
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The whole problem was going to be catching her off her guard .
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She really caught me off guard with her comments.
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The announcement of the opening came suddenly that morning, and many boats were caught off guard .
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It feels good to Jody, but she is caught off guard .
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This catches William off his guard .
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Penelope flinched, angry at her thoughts, and at the girl who had caught her off guard .
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The words caught him off guard .
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The president faces issues that can catch him off guard and undermine his authority.
change
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They didn't search me straightaway because it was time to change the guard at six o'clock precisely.
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How he survives depends on whether he finally accepts the changing of the guard .
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Some people change their guard hands as they step, but this curtails the punch's potential.
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It also sounded a changing of the guard at the Pentagon: the politician replacing the manager.
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There was an incredible changing of the guard last year.
drop
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Always wait for the referee to stop the bout and never drop your guard on the bell.
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I had dropped my guard and I did not punch through.
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The handful of dirt caught the dwarf in the face, making him gag and drop his guard .
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Today's operation is a training exercise, but the marines can't afford to drop their guard .
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We can not drop our guard .
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Maybe there is a moment when Dumbo drops his guard , but I can't see him.
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He yelped shrilly and dropped his guard just sufficiently for a sword, swung by a surprised opponent, to skewer him.
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As an actor you have to drop your guard .
keep
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People who never had to do it kept saying how important guard duty was.
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Capshaw sent him out the back door to avoid whoever it was keeping guard in the front.
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That and Nils, to keep her on her guard .
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Spend your capital, keep your guard down. build your house on sand.
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We kept guard against the security forces and helped in the communal kitchen which was set up for the support committee.
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Terry kept badgering the guards for magazines and a radio.
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One will keep guard , while the other rifles through drawers.
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Or only those detailed to keep guard against any hint of attack from Tuathal's side of the river.
kill
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Go up and left, killing both the guards and the policeman with the crates.
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When talk show host Denise Richardson asks if he killed the guard , Nathan answers yes.
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He missed, killing a security guard .
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It used live bombs until two went astray in a 1999 practice and killed a civilian guard on the bombing range.
leave
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From some time in high summer until we left the Pit the guards started bringing us a regular supply of videos.
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That leaves five guards for a 12-man roster.
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Mayne and his group crept away, leaving the guards to fight it out between themselves.
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Rufus leaves one guard on each prisoner and his other three come with us.
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Once they were on the floor their feet were bound and somebody was left on guard beside them.
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Quickly, then. Leave a small guard here, on the prisoners.
let
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The usual procedure in this sort of situation is to act like prisoners and let the guards take us to their leader.
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In the darkness of the theater Kip seemed to take on some of his boyishness again, let down his guard .
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Opportunities to relax and let her guard down, even if only for a few hours, had been rare.
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But if the mission is uneventful, the biggest danger is that we might let down our guard , get complacent.
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She had learned it the hard way and she never let her guard slip at all.
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Now it was Alain's face that surfaced when she let down her guard .
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There appears no civilised pale where they can remove their armour and let down their guard for any length of time.
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But she senses my momentary abstraction, thinks she's won the fight and lets her guard slip.
put
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Detectives feared he was out for revenge and armed police were put on guard at police stations.
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The hostile bark put Miguel on his guard .
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Never sit too close to fires. Put guards on all open fires.
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The last blow put the guard strangely on edge.
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It put them off their guard .
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And officers - some armed - were put on guard at Aylesbury police station.
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The poll tax disaster should surely put us on our guard .
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Enright at the Freie Universität in West Berlin, and that information immediately put me on my guard .
shoot
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His extra two years had come about because he'd shot a security guard in the leg with a twelve-bore.
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The team needed a shooting guard .
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Read in studio Armed robbers who shot at a security guard in a busy street are still being hunted by police.
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Rhodes is an outstanding defensive player who is expected to flourish as a small forward or shooting guard .
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Locks shoot back like informed guards stepping aside out of obedience, not willingness.
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Perhaps shooting guard or small forward.
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This team has no playoff experience and shooting guard Joe Dumars is in the final throes of his lustrous career.
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Johnson became the shooting guard and small forward, able to easily feed big men Vlade Divac and Elden Campbell.
stand
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Then one stood guard over her while the other two searched the house.
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Riot police stood guard even in tiny back alleys.
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A police officer armed with a semi-automatic gun stood guard .
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There he is, standing by the guard .
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He stood up and walked across the deck to stand by the chromium guard rail, looking down at her.
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A pro-choice president now stands guard over abortion rights.
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Sam stood guard over his blood-covered friend and tried in vain to flag down passing motorists.
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I did not know as yet that ogres stand on guard before the portal of an heiress.
start
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Next on the depth chart at this crucial position is starting right guard Brad Badger.
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The starting point guard committed 12 turnovers Saturday.
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Olajuwon will start at center and Clyde Drexler and Jason Kidd are the starting guards .
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Antonio is a starting point guard for Bowling Green State University.
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The Broncos lost starting guard Brian Habib with a lower back injury in the first quarter at Buffalo.
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David Wesley is expected to start at point guard and would be matched against Johnson.
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Gardner is expected to start at point guard tonight in place of Prentice McGruder.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
catch sb by surprise, catch sb off guard, catch sb napping/unawares
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My pregnancy caught us by surprise, but we're happy about it.
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The public's reaction obviously caught the governor off guard.
keep guard/watch
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Capshaw sent him out the back door to avoid whoever it was keeping guard in the front.
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He kept watching out the window of the rear door.
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He climbed to the top of the fence and looked around to see if there was some one keeping watch there as well.
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I told my friend Bridget it was up to us to keep watch.
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Its highly flexible neck enables it to keep watch over a wide area while it is both searching for and chasing prey.
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Mcduff came with him to sit in the shelves and they took it in turns to keep watch.
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Now do stuff that will make us want to keep watching.
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The trick was to keep watching.
let your guard/defences down
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Never let your guard down was the only solace he offered.
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We must not let our defences down, Mrs Thatcher and other cautious voices would argue.
stand guard (over sb/sth)
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If you stand guard over our stuff, I'll run get the tickets.
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A deputy stands guard under the black numeral 2.
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A police officer armed with a semi-automatic gun stood guard.
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A pro-choice president now stands guard over abortion rights.
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Riot police stood guard even in tiny back alleys.
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Soldiers stand guard on street corners and roam the city at night.
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Teachers stood guard every night and he was never alone.
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Then one stood guard over her while the other two searched the house.
the National Guard
the old guard
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But now what had happened to the old guard was happening to him, too.
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But the old guard in the leadership sends in the tanks and introduces a new phase of vicious repression.
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By agreeing to run, Daley gave up his Senate seat and angered some of the old guard on the South Side.
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Meanwhile, like the Old Guard, the conventional wisdom dies but does not surrender.
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Soon many of the old guard felt his hand upon them.
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The trouble is that his men have done just as badly as the old guard.
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To the old guard there is no such place.
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Would she like to abandon the old guard, she was asked?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Guards at the embassy refused to let journalists enter.
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All college hockey players must wear face guards on their helmets.
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Football players are strongly advised to wear shin guards.
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The guards stopped us at the gate.
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The captain put armed guards all around the camp.
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Two men overpowered the security guard and stole $20,000.
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You can buy guards for electric sockets that make it impossible for little children to stick their fingers into the holes.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As they came nearer I approached them, before the guard had time to prevent me.
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Creekmur, a Lions offensive lineman during the 1950s, played both guard and tackle in his 10-year career.
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Currently Zandrino works as a security guard at a Healdsburg winery.
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Detectives feared he was out for revenge and armed police were put on guard at police stations.
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Many guards are members of the death squads and openly discuss their activities in loud voices.
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The words caught him off guard .
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Then he sneaked past the security guard without paying.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
carefully
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I am meeting Enya and the Ryans somewhere near her carefully guarded Killiney residence on a silvery wet and foggy autumn day.
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Another tore sheets of newspaper into smaller and smaller pieces, carefully guarding her handiwork.
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They were carefully guarded , as if they hid secrets he didn't intend ever to reveal to anyone.
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The boundary between these two was carefully guarded but was not impassable.
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All the direct routes to Ireland are carefully guarded .
closely
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The deal, though its precise value is closely guarded , is rumoured to rank as the largest leasing transaction of 1991.
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For more than forty years his existence had been a closely guarded secret.
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They continued to be closely guarded and severely restricted in their movements.
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His smoking had been one of the most closely guarded secrets of the campaign.
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It was almost as closely guarded a secret as Operation Majestic UK8.
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The winning design was chosen a few months ago and has been a closely guarded secret.
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Details of the program are closely guarded secrets.
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Why had he chosen to make Vicky privy to this most closely guarded secret, and not me?
heavily
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Sagramoso City itself was heavily guarded by skyward laser batteries, and these could not easily be neutralised.
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In a heavily guarded courtroom, the former president implicated his successor, Rafsanjani, and Khamenei.
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I had to be escorted because the curfew was on and the village was heavily guarded .
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Thus, for example, Baldwin's responses to questions in the House over Britain's preparedness for war were heavily guarded .
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Ordinary burglars would never have dared enter the heavily guarded confines of State House.
jealously
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Both were heavy red-wine drinkers, always bloated, and each jealously guarded his own inferior status.
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Until that day this venerable charter, like a kidnapped virgin, will be jealously guarded by those who have signed it.
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The 22-man Politburo jealously guards power.
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For 20 years Marshak has owned and jealously guarded the federally registered trademarks for the Drifters, the Platters and the Coasters.
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Chocolate is a multimillion pound industry, and each hard won market segment is jealously guarded by the giant global manufacturers.
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Exactly how big a chunk those outsiders take is unclear, because most tribes jealously guard their internal finances.
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Access to the archives was jealously guarded , and censorship of counter-revolutionary distortions was instituted.
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But Kodak has been jealously guarded since 1888.
■ NOUN
entrance
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The woman guarding the entrance way does not wish to know this.
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We failed to clear the farther islands which guard the entrance , and had to turn back to Po Ti.
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They see that the stone guarding the entrance to the sepulchre has been rolled away.
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Draitser retaliated by posting security guards at the hotel entrance to bar Tatum.
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But the camera was designed to guard the lift entrance , and not show what lay beyond.
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Minders guarded the entrance as they played in the hot jets.
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Now look up at the towers guarding the entrance to Charles Bridge.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the National Guard
the old guard
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But now what had happened to the old guard was happening to him, too.
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But the old guard in the leadership sends in the tanks and introduces a new phase of vicious repression.
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By agreeing to run, Daley gave up his Senate seat and angered some of the old guard on the South Side.
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Meanwhile, like the Old Guard, the conventional wisdom dies but does not surrender.
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Soon many of the old guard felt his hand upon them.
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The trouble is that his men have done just as badly as the old guard.
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To the old guard there is no such place.
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Would she like to abandon the old guard, she was asked?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A dog guards the house.
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An army lieutenant and 14 soldiers were guarding the air strip.
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Byron will guard Jordan in tonight's game.
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Soldiers have been called in to guard the embassy against further attacks.
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We've hired someone to guard the entrance.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And this she must guard against at all costs.
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I made revisions on the Old Course, guarded her with all my energy.
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She must be mated again, and the first mate has to guard her or risk his groundwork going to benefit another.
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The car was backed inside and Randolph Churchill and Corporal Rose were left to guard it.
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The women and children were sent into the town until the floods subsided and the men were left to guard the camp.
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You guard your other child very closely.