noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
leave
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In the office if you have to leave your handbag , lock it in a drawer when you go out.
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Jane and Gabrielle had been told to leave their handbags outside, and Zack had been frisked.
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She had left her handbag on the chair.
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I slipped my shoes on and left my handbag by the door, heading for the stairs.
open
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He opened her handbag , but the address book revealed nothing.
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She opened her handbag and removed a compact.
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She opened her handbag and rubbed the St Christopher.
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While the man stood passively, she opened her handbag , taking out a purse, searching through it.
pick
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She stood up and squeezed past Ryker, picking up her handbag in the process.
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She picked up her handbag , and he rose from behind his desk to take a relieved and ceremonious farewell.
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The young woman had picked up her handbag , but hadn't moved apart from that.
put
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I took off my rings and jewellery and put them in my handbag then lowered myself over the cliff edge.
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She had a shopping list in her hand which she put into her handbag when she saw Alice.
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Donna rubbed her eyes and got to her feet, picking up the piece of paper and putting it in her handbag .
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The Assistant Secretary put a large floppy handbag on the table and took out a small handkerchief.
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She opened the car door, put her handbag on the passenger seat and got in.
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My girlfriend had put her handbag between her feet under her chair so that no one could pinch it.
steal
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They also stole her watch, handbag and camera.
take
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They took her handbag and she was very shaken.
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The attackers took only her handbag .
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Especially as apparently you'd gone out in a hurry and not taken a handbag .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Grabbed her handbag back, gave me the gargoyle stare, went inside.
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She drove three kicks into his shins and smashed her handbag into the side of his head.
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She reached down for her handbag on the floor.
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She took the two gifts from her handbag and set them on the table.
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So Auntie, her umbrella in one hand and her handbag in the other, set out.
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The handbag was red and gold, with a dainty gold-link chain.
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The diary she dropped back into her handbag .
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They took her handbag and she was very shaken.