noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bathroom/hall/bedroom cupboard British English
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Your boots are in the hall cupboard.
a booking hall/office British English (= a place for buying tickets, especially in a station )
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There were long queues in the booking hall.
a church hall (= a large room in a church )
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The dance was held in the church hall.
a concert hall
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On the last night, the concert hall was packed.
a conference hall
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Thousands of people demonstrated outside the conference hall, demanding government action.
a lecture hall/room ( also a lecture theatre British English )
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The lecture hall was packed.
an entrance hall (= a room at the entrance to a building )
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He walked through the front door into the entrance hall.
an exhibition hall
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There’s a large exhibition hall on the ground floor.
banqueting hall
city hall
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The recycling program simply hasn’t been a high priority at City Hall.
concert hall
dance hall
Hall of Fame
hall of residence
hallowed halls
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the hallowed halls of government
mess hall
music hall
pool hall
residence hall
snooker table/room/hall
study hall
the school hall
the village hall/school/shop/church
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A meeting will be held at the village hall on Tuesday.
town hall
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
banqueting
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Again the Collector heard the crash of cannons from the banqueting hall .
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The dragon, gliding across its vast emptiness, was a mere gilded fly in a banqueting hall .
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Even if shot to pieces the commanding position of the banqueting hall would still make it defensible.
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Whatever had taken place in the banqueting hall after my departure, there was now a genuinely celebratory atmosphere amongst the guests.
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She had gone through rather a bad patch since she had come to live in the banqueting hall .
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The banqueting hall was now filled with ladies and children, refugees from the Residency.
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Besides, the banqueting hall was small and the Collector could not get far.
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Soon the Residency and the banqueting hall were virtually stripped.
front
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After several false tries I found the front hall again.
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She pushed it open and entered the front hall .
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I have wrongly criticized you for bathing in the front hall .
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I cursed, crept towards the front hall , then stopped dead as I heard voices.
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At last Lilly and I got our coats and stood in the front hall saying good-bye to Miss Grantly.
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Death went to the telephone in the front hall .
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The man did not return, so Elsa left the package in the front hall and went to bed.
great
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The changing styles in the fifties and sixties affected this great dance hall like all the rest.
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He hesitated, uncertain, then realized that the archway at the end led on to the balcony above the great hall .
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He looked up at the vaulted ceiling of the great hall and studied the fresco of constellations.
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There were objects in glass cases, lengthy labels in tiny print, subdued lighting and great echoing halls .
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There also is a brief history of each Apollo mission along the right-hand wall of the great hall .
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It contained a great hall but was considerably altered following afire in 1871.
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Then they sat down in the great dining hall to drink.
large
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The layout of a seventh century B.C. example shows a large hall with entrance porch.
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One advantage of so large a hall was the inability of all but the most vocal heckler to make himself heard.
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Dov Kalmenzohn went out in to the large hall . l heard his voice.
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She walked through the large hall , her footsteps echoing off the stone-flagged floor, but then she suddenly stopped.
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The concert was held in a large hall with a balcony, where the two women sat.
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In many the class-rooms are simply partitioned cubicles in what used to be a large hall ....
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Speak in ordinary conversational voice in a large room or hall and only the front row will hear you.
main
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Open to the public in the main hall of the Bishop's Castle Community College.
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Inside, the main hall is reminiscent of the Lincoln Memorial.
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The door from the kitchen into the main hall was always double-locked, and the key was in Billy's pocket.
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At the far end of the room a corridor led to the main hall of the building.
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He seemed disappointed and I soon saw why when I got into the main hall .
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Rain went to the main hall .
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The rest of the party was just a flight of stairs away, in the room off the main hall .
■ NOUN
church
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Rehearsals every day in church hall from ten till five-thirty.
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He started running an aerobics session in a church hall in Neasden, North London, and soon expanded.
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In March 1973 the Trustees returned to the original idea of building a church hall attached to the Memorial hall.
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It's much easier to hide in a church hall !
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He would be at the next meeting in the church hall along with Swire Sugden, and were they in for a surprise!
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On Friday evenings, he often attended a disco with school friends in a church hall near to it.
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Sadberge met their rivals, Haughton-le-Skerne, near Darlington, in Haughton church hall yesterday for a championship game.
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I started up the bagpipes and was soon under way, marching up and down the church hall .
city
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He avoids banks, party offices and city hall , but people still recognise him.
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When the authorities refused, the crowd sacked city hall .
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More will come only if city halls scent a crisis.
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The certificate is supposed to be obtained from city hall .
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How smart of you both just to go off to city hall and get married.
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Put it this way: You gon na have a city , you got ta build a city hall .
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C., state capitols, or city halls .
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Some downtown buildings, including city hall and the county courthouse, were evacuated.
concert
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Some interest in listening to music on record, or better still in the concert hall , is pre-supposed.
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Do we tend to direct only Miles's attention to the line of flags outside the concert hall ?
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Down Niddry Street stands the charming concert hall which was a fashionable resort in the eighteenth century.
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They buy up an entire slum block, raze it and erect a castle containing theaters, concert halls and restaurants.
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In the 1, 500-seat concert hall , O Vertigo Danse sold 522 seats.
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Since 1936 the Hall of Mirrors has been used as a concert hall .
conference
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He arrived at the conference hall after having a Campaign Group leaflet thrust into his hand.
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A conference hall for the under elevens.
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Their debate on Labour's plight rages far above the brawling oratory in the conference hall .
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Unfettered loyalty inside the conference hall .
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Anyway, at last night's show in a Wembley conference hall , there was only one contestant.
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Heartened by this exchange, Joshua re-entered the conference hall just as Norman Tebbit was getting to his feet.
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A programme is not just what happens in the conference hall .
convention
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And at mid-day Wednesday, she was rehearsing her walk through the convention hall .
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Enroute they passed a motorcade racing the other direction carrying Bush to join Reagan at convention hall and accept the nomination.
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He hopes to have busloads of protesters outside the convention hall Wednesday, when Clinton is to arrive.
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Activists on both sides demonstrated outside the convention hall , as expected.
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We will fight them inside the convention hall .
dance
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The changing styles in the fifties and sixties affected this great dance hall like all the rest.
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In dance halls people were dancing the shimmy, the fox-trot, the Charleston.
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I walked inside the dance hall .
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When she talked to the current victims, she found they were all patrons of two very popular country music dance halls .
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On Saturdays in those Isle of Arran summers the picture palace became the dance hall .
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Here he encountered the bars and loose women and dance halls that would soon make him a famous artist.
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Here the taxi dance hall represented little more than clandestine prostitution.
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Age Concern runs tea dances , as do some local authorities, hotels and dance halls .
entrance
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Internally, the only significant architectural feature was the two-storey entrance hall , and this is to be retained.
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The second entrance hall is bigger with more marble, a grim but opulent place.
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The paint in the entrance hall is peeling, and the floor of their stark flat consists of bare concrete.
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There was a glass cupola in the entrance hall reached from an attic suite with exposed beams.
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Public Telephone Public telephones are available just inside the main entrance hall of the Manor House and in the cafeteria.
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I left the car out front and climbed the wide marble steps to the entrance hall .
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Through the railings overlooking the small entrance hall , he saw Gwen appear from the kitchen.
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The Secretary's office was newly located downstairs, in the area to the left of the Club's entrance hall .
exhibition
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The outer concourse in glass and iron had its architectural roots in the exhibition halls of the nineteenth century.
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It includes an exhibition hall , an auditorium, bookshop and restaurant.
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It links Hammersmith Broadway with the brutal concrete-and-steel Thirties exhibition halls at Olympia.
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To have a ground floor exhibition hall will also have one great practical advantage.
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Ideally situated for Conference Centre, exhibitions halls and shops.
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There have been some notable conservation conversions, with the Gare d'Orsay in Paris, for instance, becoming an exhibition hall .
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At one stage, the exhibition hall got so crowded the doors had to be closed.
lecture
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Meanwhile, Lepine has walked further along the corridor to the large lecture hall , B-311.
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He looked out into the lecture hall and saw one hundred and seventy pairs of eyes staring back at him.
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And she saw the big staircases leading up to the libraries and the lecture halls .
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The lecture hall was jammed when Stafford deliberately arrived at the very last moment.
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They are quite likely to be moving rapidly from one lecture hall to another in consecutive hours.
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In the excitement as the applause commenced, nobody had noticed Stafford slipping out of the lecture hall .
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She put a table in front of her to see how she would look from the lecture hall .
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Painters and sculptors began looking for inspiration in spontaneity and primitive feeling rather than in the lecture halls of traditional learning.
mess
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He joined every other prisoner in the mess hall for breakfast each morning at six-thirty.
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Eventually, because the mess hall would close, they allowed my commands to get through.
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In the mess hall I had orange juice, cereal, ham and eggs and coffee.
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Then it was double time to the mess hall , and chin-ups and push-ups outside.
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I bumped into him by accident at the compound mess hall .
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The water was delivered to the mess hall .
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I found the officers already assembled at one of the long tables in the mess hall .
music
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Victoria and Albert Music hall sing-song.
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This is something I learnt to do when I was working in provincial music halls .
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But in London it brought belly laughs with a bawdy display of music hall humour and saucy songs.
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It is a play which, again, has not entirely abandoned the traditions of the music hall .
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The service areas, with their awful tea and rubber sandwiches, had become a music hall joke.
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So far only men entertainers have been allowed - music hall acts and that sort of thing.
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We've lots of theatre memorabilia saved from old music halls and theatres.
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Even those hostile found the play's closeness to music hall to be its strength.
pool
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When they fished me out I made a few phone calls, fed a few meters, hung round the pool halls .
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Lawrence was a big fifteen-year-old, and sometimes made money playing for dances in the Strasburg pool hall .
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Seen through the lacy walls of the village pool hall the polystyrene floats of the fish farm bobbed busily.
study
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We had fourteen check-ins a day, classes in Latin, a vigorous program of athletics and every night a study hall .
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With parental approval all the students elected to meet with the counselor in lieu of another subject or study hall .
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The class worked much like a study hall , but with just a few students helped by one teacher.
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Too many seniors are floating through their final year in high school in a combination of elective classes and study hall .
town
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This reluctance to take office is recalled during the annual mayor-making in the council chamber of the town hall .
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The medieval tower of the town hall of Foligno, near Assisi, also sustained further damage.
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The town hall clock struck midnight.
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The concluding town hall meeting will be broadcast in prime time.
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The Gothic room in the old town hall should be visited.
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It was designed not to resemble a church of any sort but, if anything, a town hall .
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For example: A: Why were you sitting in the town hall fountain, with a goldfish bowl over your head?
village
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Throughout the morning the village hall was packed.
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Later that afternoon we walked what seemed like endless miles to the village hall .
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Domino drive: A domino drive will be held at the village hall tomorrow.
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We decided to go to a Hogmanay dance in the village hall , and they came along to watch.
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Further up the village is the old school, which is now used as the village hall .
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Cottage and village hall ceilings come high on their list of favourite dropping places.
■ VERB
build
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In March 1973 the Trustees returned to the original idea of building a church hall attached to the Memorial hall.
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He resigned his royal power and organized a commonwealth, building a council hall where the citizens should gather and vote.
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The Reverend Richard Rowland Ward, who built the hall in 1821, must have been a desperately romantic character.
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In 1948 a group of volunteers from the village started to build a village hall .
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Put it this way: You gon na have a city, you got ta build a city hall .
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For the past few years islanders have been occupied with building a community hall .
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Orlando, Florida, even struck a deal in which a developer built a new city hall .
dine
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A simple trellis entwined with flowers on a platform at the end of the dining hall was Illyria.
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Some of the men and women filing into the noisy dining hall are wearing protective helmets.
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Only a few soldiers remain in the dining hall , and when darkness comes, even the last two leave.
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The dining hall serves at least 250 people a day.
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During our freshman year, Rebecca and I seal our friendship over meals at the campus dining hall .
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Two long walls of matting connected by a back wall and roof of the same material constituted the dining hall .
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When her famed physique makes its first appearance in the dining hall , fellow trainees make rude comments.
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Shouts and singing came from the dining room and reception hall .
enter
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And use the toilet shortly before entering the examination hall .
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On entering the parish hall , he was surprised to smell the unmistakable odor of chicken noodle soup.
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As soon as he entered the hall , it was immediately apparent that there was a change.
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I entered a hall crammed with low stretcher beds, placed row upon row on an antiseptic, scrubbed floor.
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The King and his courtiers started at the sight of Kabir when he entered the hall .
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Leslie's maroon beret and the winged flash on his shoulder attracted attention as we entered the hall .
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She entered the hall and frowned slightly.
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It seems very strange as I enter the town hall .
hear
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Dov Kalmenzohn went out in to the large hall . l heard his voice.
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Out in the hall he could hear Bagshot at the reception desk dialling a number.
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She was selecting her favourite racket in the cupboard in the hall when she heard a car coming up the drive.
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He was about to swivel round into the hall when he heard the sound of a car starting up outside the house.
hold
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The concert was held in a large hall with a balcony, where the two women sat.
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Domino drive: A domino drive will be held at the village hall tomorrow.
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Coffee morning: A coffee morning is to be held in the village hall at 10am on March 27.
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The second round of the darts competition will be held in the hall on April 24.
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Jumble sale: A jumble sale will be held at the village hall on March 19.
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The reception was being held in the main hall of the Residency.
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As such they were held in hotels, halls , etc.
lead
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She opened the first door leading off the hall to find only a cloakroom.
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The doors leading into the halls of real political and economic power and influence were still shut tight against us.
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She led him down the hall and into her bedroom, leaving the door ajar.
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Now they both saw Lois at the doorway leading from the dark hall .
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All the doors leading off the hall had full length panels of frosted glass set into them.
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At the far end of the room a corridor led to the main hall of the building.
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Jim Lancaster's lips twitched into a smile of relief and he led them towards the hall .
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The office was somewhere along one of the little corridors leading off the hall .
leave
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Joshua Morris left the hall and stood in line for a cup of Gold Blend.
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When the brightly costumed court leaves the main hall , we realize how empty and cold its huge splendor is.
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But just as suddenly as it had begun all this ended three years later, leaving the halls deserted.
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That night, as she and Rea left the dining hall , she felt herself again giving way to tears.
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When I leave them in the hall the lids burst open again.
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Rachel, you see, overheard us as we left the hall in Richmond Palace.
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No sooner had the debate begun than people began to leave the hall .
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She left him in the hall while she went to fetch her purse.
meet
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After Maltote was rested Corbett and Ranulf met him in the hall .
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The meeting hall was an elongated poorly lighted room bordering on bareness.
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Made his name barging into their clubs and smashing up their meeting halls .
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What will we all say to each other when we meet in the hall ?
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You'd never be able to tell we were cheerleaders if you met us in the hall .
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Originally it met in the hall of the local Anglican Church.
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We met across the hall from the advanced class, and the teacher and her aides took turns rotating between the classrooms.
run
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She ran to the hall for her coat, then went out, crossing the poor battered garden.
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She burst into tears and ran down the hall to the kitchen.
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They ran into the hall , Tom's boots clattering on the tiles.
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Then I heard footsteps running down the hall and I forgot to breathe.
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He almost ran down the hall , through the kitchen and into the little utility room that had once been a scullery.
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I ran down the hall , out on to the street, jumped into my car and drove off quickly.
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He ran from the hall , a bloody bundle clutched to his chest.
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Ginny ran into the hall and picked up the handset.
stand
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Down Niddry Street stands the charming concert hall which was a fashionable resort in the eighteenth century.
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Recalling this, I quietly tread the stairs and stand in the dark hall outside his door.
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They were standing in a narrow hall , with a bicycle propped against one wall and stairs leading down to a basement.
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You have to stand outside the hall .
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A woman stood just within the hall .
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At last Lilly and I got our coats and stood in the front hall saying good-bye to Miss Grantly.
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The giveaway was to stand in the upstairs hall outside Albie's old bedroom and examine the door.
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Glover stood leaden in the hall and waited until Paul came down again, looking a little better set in his mind.
walk
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Meredith walked out into the hall and waited.
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They walked down the hall and stopped at the closet, where he removed the key from above the door.
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Just walking down the hall was enough to make even the bravest shy violet hide her petals under her leaves.
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Mrs Albertson walked out into the hall and down to Room 104.
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They walked down the hall and stood near the fireplace.
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They straightened, walked into the hall and through the kitchen.
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He walked further into the hall , shifting the cone of yellow light.
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There was, however, a drawback to this providential escape, which he realized as he walked up the hall .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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As a freshman, you can either live in West Bennet or Drummond Hall .
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We heard the principal coming down the hall .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And use the toilet shortly before entering the examination hall .
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City hall staffers said the mayor is busy campaigning for re-election and did not have time to discuss the park proposal.
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Coats, bags and shoes were to be left in the corridors and not brought in to the hall .
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Each hall offers an advanced technical specification and the very latest technology.
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He moves from hotel to hall in sleek limousines.
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His first experience in magic had been to give a show at the Miners Welfare hall at the age of 11.
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I would have to thank Kalmenzohn, too. l went out into the hall and took up my backpack.
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The certificate is supposed to be obtained from city hall .