I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a door handle (= that you move up or down to open a door )
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Ella reached for the door handle.
deal with/handle a complaint
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Police officers came to the house to deal with a complaint about noise.
deal with/handle an incident
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The police were criticized for the way in which they handled the incident.
handle a crisis (= deal with one )
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Can he handle the crisis in our prisons?
handle an emergency (= deal with and make decisions about an emergency )
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There is always a doctor on call to handle emergencies.
handle/deal with an inquiry
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Staff will be available to deal with inquiries.
handling charge
manage/handle the economy
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Governments are judged on how well they manage the economy.
shipping and handling
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The jewelry can be yours for $15 plus shipping and handling .
the handle of a knife
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His hand reached down to the handle of his knife.
too hot to handle (= too difficult to deal with or beat )
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Wilkinson found his opponent a little too hot to handle .
treat/handle sb with kid gloves
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I want you to treat Hayley with kid gloves today. She’s still upset about her father.
turn the handle/knob/key/tap etc
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She gently turned the handle of the bedroom door.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
ability
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They admired his ability to handle an awkward bill in a café or fix lodgings for the night.
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With a goal to our life, our ability to bear and handle the discomfort and pain is also increased.
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We will now review evidence on children's ability to handle explanations in each mode.
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Accuracy and the ability to handle responsibility with limited supervision are important.
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It's an alien situation and I question his ability to handle it.
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He has the ability to handle heated situations better than others.
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An ability to handle air-sensitive compounds, although not essential, would be an advantage.
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To her, Roz was uncanny in her ability to perform. handle outrageous situations, do.
affair
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It made her feel she had been incompetent in handling her affairs , and she didn't like that.
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Growing familiarity with technology to access bank accounts and to handle financial affairs is boosting interest.
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As Pietr's executor I've handled his affairs .
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It is time that the black community handles its own affairs .
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The defendants' articled clerk handled the wife's affairs and negotiated a financial settlement with the husband's solicitors.
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In his last years, he had lived with his daughter Marian Brockamp, who handled his financial affairs .
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Mr Theo Simpson, the senior partner, personally handled Miss Needham's affairs .
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He told her how to handle their affairs and what to do with the kids.
business
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From a modest start five years ago when 30,000 tonnes were handled the business has grown to 400,000 tonnes perannum.
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The ruling also set a firm precedent against deals reached among lawyers handling business lawsuits to keep court filings secret.
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The agency companies will also be responsible for ensuring that syndicates are capable of handling the business they take on.
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Many more people were hired to handle the new business , on starting salaries of forty-eight grand.
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An extra 89 RoadRailer Mailvan trailers will be leased to handle the additional business , bringing the fleet to 166.
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Seclusion is at hand a short train ride from Zurich, whose airport handles sleek business jets in nearly any weather.
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Of course Ed was really peeved about how Martinez handled the whole Harley business .
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With Simmons handling business matters, Rubin acted as talent scout -- and what talent he found!
care
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Yet such inferences need to be handled with care .
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Like these elements, it should be handled with meticulous care .
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Results must be handled with care .
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They should be handled with care and give considerable variety in their diet.
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They should be handled with care to minimise damage.
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Similarly, changing dividend policy to yield more cash for investment needs to be handled with care .
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Virginia liked to watch them when they were in a mood that required that they be handled with extreme care .
case
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The doctor who handled his case has since left.
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In addition, Johnson was criticized recently for her handling in a separate case involving freshman Rep.
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Seventy clergy in the Diocese publicly criticised the way it had handled the case .
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Dan Mulligan, a San Francisco lawyer who specializes in handling lending and foreclosure cases , agreed that homeowners shared responsibility.
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Such a rule would prevent solicitors handling the client's case from start to finish.
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None the less, Stern has insisted that Nico has endeavoured to handle the case fairly.
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Mr Deakin's solicitor alone is handling 400 other similar cases .
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The lawyers who first handled the case were dead.
crisis
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Putin appears to have survived the political storm over his handling of the crisis , according to opinion polls.
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If anything, he handled this crisis with more aplomb than the earlier one.
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President Bush is being widely praised for his deft handling of the hostage crisis .
goods
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Randhawa admitted obtaining by deception, burglary, handling stolen goods and making a threat to kill Miss Nazir.
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In such cases no serious scholar was willing to risk his or her reputation by handling or studying stolen goods .
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Randhawa handled the goods worth over £5,000 which were stolen.
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Jacqueline MacPherson faced a charge of handling stolen goods .
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At Teesside Crown Court yesterday, Francis, 36, admitted handling stolen goods .
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They swallowed it and said they were charging me with handling stolen goods .
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John Henry, 26, of Bexley Heath, will be sentenced later for handling stolen goods .
issue
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It also illustrates that small as well as large organizations must decide how to handle the matrixing issue .
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However, senior government figures say that Mr Mandelson's handling of the issue has damaged their faith in his political judgment.
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My sister-in-law handles the allowance issue in such a way that her kids have learned to budget money.
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Hayling went along to meet Anthony Everett, the director who would be handling the issue .
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Respondents said the president is better able to handle a variety of issues .
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Sometimes such advisers may act for companies to handle the securities issues needed to consummate another transaction, such as an acquisition.
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Both companies have impressive tract records in handling AIDS-related issues in the workplace.
matter
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Much would depend on Dulles's mission and how he handled the thorny matters confronting him.
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Unless he thought there might be a mutually advantageous way to handle the matter between ourselves.
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The manager is not available and the receptionist on duty has to handle the matter .
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An administrative support team handled such matters as payroll, accounts payable, purchasing, and employment sourcing.
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This research aims to find out how families handle these matters concerning inheritance of property in the circumstances of the 1990s.
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Many widows are handling financial matters for the first time, she said.
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Constable Coupland is the type of fellow you would want handling these matters .
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However, he was not without experience in handling such matters .
problem
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So, all things considered, I think I have done all right, handled my problem as well as it could have been handled.
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One of the best and most practical approaches to handling this problem is the pretest.
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In handling these problems , the executives use highly honed skills yet create consequences they do not intend.
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There are, however, better and worse ways of handling human problems .
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However, there are ways of dealing with stress, handling and overcoming problems .
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This is precisely how they are handling the regional problem .
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Now John wondered how to handle the problem .
sale
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Lehman Brothers, the investment banking firm handling the sale , went to Harvester and objected on simple moral grounds.
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Accountants Ernst &038; Young, which is handling the sale , said negotiations were at an advanced stage.
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Porter's Lexington team handled the sales project, with decorator contributing her colour expertise.
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Lehman Brothers Inc. is expected to handle the sale .
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Artisoft will be handling the product's sales .
situation
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Inevitably, the divorce had a bad effect on our relationship because I didn't know how to handle the situation .
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Such learning is not automatic. 13 Succeeding or failing to handle a situation did not tell the new managers much.
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The better way to handle the situation is to render the cats infertile without actually neutering them.
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How will you handle this situation ?
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If you think your child may be abusing solvents, think carefully about how you are going to handle the situation .
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As I climbed the stairs I wondered if I could handle the present situation calmly and tactfully even a bit subserviently.
way
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Only 29 % say they approve of the way it has been handled .
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He handled it the same way I handle the pressure of being Junior.
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At eleven thirty he was called into James Cadogan's office to talk about the best way to handle their latest commission.
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Or the way an intense director handles a movie.
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The everyday availability is changing the way legitimate gun owners handle their own firearms.
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I believe that, under existing provisions, that is the only way to handle the matter.
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Yes, that was the way to handle it.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A lot of people find it difficult to handle criticism.
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At one time, AT&T handled over 70% of the nation's long-distance calls.
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Bennet was charged with handling stolen goods.
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Carver handles the basketball with confidence and skill.
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Francis is a natural leader. He's very good at handling people.
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HPC Architects handled the architectural work.
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I can only handle Bob for about fifteen minutes.
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I knew I would have to be very careful how I handled Odette - she was so emotional.
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It's her first year as a doctor, but she is handling the pressures of the job very well.
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Jones has handled a wide variety of criminal cases.
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Please do not handle the fruit and vegetables.
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She doesn't want anyone to think she can't handle the pressure.
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The whole situation has been very badly handled.
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There were a few problems, but nothing I couldn't handle .
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This violin is very old and valuable and must be handled carefully.
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You'll receive specific training on how to handle angry customers.
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You should wash your hands after handling raw meat.
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You were very discreet about the whole thing - I appreciate the way you handled it.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Always handle your food jar with care.
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Cleaning the beat meant fitting each new situation into past patterns, trying to handle them according to traditional recipes.
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He handled me the way I wanted to be treated.
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It is the key format for handling large volumes of information.
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Lieutenant Richards will tell you that each of the weapons was carefully handled to preserve any possible latent fingerprints.
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The better way to handle the situation is to render the cats infertile without actually neutering them.
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This extends across all five years and gives students the opportunity to handle animals from the start of the course.
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Three or four staff members handle incoming telephone calls.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
long
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I stroked the long handle of the trowel, wondering if my father had a name for that stick of his.
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Eating lost its appeal when bowels could no longer handle waste easily.
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The drill itself is a different shape to most models, having a long slender handle and snub-nosed body.
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The clothes were agitated by hand, using a wooden dolly, which had four short legs and a long handle .
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The so-called Executioner's Axe was really a woodman's axe on a long handle .
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It also has a comfortable 5.5 inch long plastic handle .
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With a long broom handle , a kitchen fork fixed on its end, they spike away the loose, dry divots.
wooden
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The knife in Dennis's paw was sharp and serrated, with a sturdy wooden handle .
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Explanation Put the hammer down on the table with the wooden handle touching the edge.
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In his right hand he's holding a curved knife with a short wooden handle .
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Now move the wooden handle of the hammer gradually over the edge of the table.
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Bob Grant Fixing handles Q Could you please tell me the best method of fixing turned wooden handles to cutlery blanks?
■ NOUN
broom
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Dowels and broom handles are useful.
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Pushing a broom handle up the tube will allow you to push the plunger up to this moulded shoulder and into the tube.
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With a long broom handle , a kitchen fork fixed on its end, they spike away the loose, dry divots.
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A hushed audience watched her spread her legs, and present the broom handle to her open crotch.
door
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A couple of minutes later she heard the chair that had wedged the door handle shut being moved.
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His head bobbed like some leftover party balloon Lois had tied to the door handle .
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She seized hold of the door handle and tried to open it.
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I told him to shut up and I seized the door handle and gave it a good tug.
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The door handles were red hot.
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The door handles fell out of their doors when guests turned them to enter their rooms.
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No wonder she hadn't been able to find the door handle .
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However, investigators said they are concerned with numerous reports of the door handle jamming.
knife
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Pic 14: Segmented folding knife handle , value £30.00.
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The knife handle was found in Colchester and may have been used by a legionary.
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The knife - the crucial prop here - is visually represented by a fist clenched as though round the knife handle .
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Pic 18: Top Celtic bronze knife handle , value £120.
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The female figure on the knife handle appears to resemble Aphrodite or Venus, the goddess of love.
■ VERB
fly
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If last night hadn't happened, would she still have flown off the handle , sooner or later ...?
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He just flew off the handle .
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Some people always fly off the handle , and often their anger is totally out of proportion to the problem in hand.
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Lila flew off the handle and she realizes that.
get
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Absorption and diffraction could help industrial researchers get a better handle on the materials they use.
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From these activities they really get a handle on where I want them to go.
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It was just as he got the handle about half way that I noticed Mr McCrindle had joined us.
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Daily at five or six a. m. Mr Sammler woke up in Manhattan and tried to get a handle on the situation.
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See, I can't even get a proper handle on their mythology.
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You figure you've got a handle on all but the most aberrant human behaviour.
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This seems difficult to get an up-to-date handle on.
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Sun had difficulty getting a handle on the actual yield situation because week-to-week data on the silicon lots varied, Gadre said.
grab
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The man grabbed the inside handle with his free hand and began to shake the windows.
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I grabbed the door handle , pulled the door open against the force of the wind, and ran up the stairs.
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He stumbled toward it, grabbed at the handle , and pulled the door toward him.
grasp
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He grasped the shaky handle of the office door, and cursed.
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You grasp the handle , and can feel the coolness of it in your hand.
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She crossed the room in a few quick strides, grasped the handle of the door set in the wall and pulled.
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You open the lid by grasping a handle shaped like a burned match.
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With one hand he grasped the string handle of the carrier-bag with the Union Jack on it.
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You reach out and grasp the handle .
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She grasped the heavy iron handle and turned it cautiously.
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He grasped the handle of the door in one hand, and that of the spoon in the other.
pull
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Nine-stone Deirdre, 39, halted the driverless car by pulling on the door handle .
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In theory you pull a handle with operates an air bottle which blows the wheels down.
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As I shut the car door, Lucker is there pulling on the handle .
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He grabbed it and tugged, pulling the handle from Luke's hand.
try
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She tried the handle and found it was not locked.
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He knocked twice on the office door then tried the handle .
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Making sure that he was not visible from the house, he tried the brown bakelite handle .
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Daily at five or six a. m. Mr Sammler woke up in Manhattan and tried to get a handle on the situation.
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I tried each handle in turn.
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Colin Campbell strode through the lengthening shadows, pausing now and then to try a door handle before moving on.
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Faded gold lettering told him this wasn't the one he was looking for, but he tried the handle anyway.
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She tried the handle but the door had obviously been bolted from the inside.
turn
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Would that thing out there still know how to simply turn a handle ?
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She added some chicory to the coffee beans and turned the handle quickly.
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He climbed into the bucket and Endill started to turn the handle .
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It took a minute to turn the handle 60 times and fully coil the spring.
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As he turned the door handle to enter the building he saw a storm-trooper come out of one of the side rooms.
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I turn a rusty handle in the part of my brain that handles mental arithmetic.
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He turned a brass handle above the sink and hot water came out.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
fly off the handle
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Linda called me back and apologized for flying off the handle.
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He just flew off the handle.
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If last night hadn't happened, would she still have flown off the handle, sooner or later ...?
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Lila flew off the handle and she realizes that.
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Some people always fly off the handle, and often their anger is totally out of proportion to the problem in hand.
throw a switch/handle/lever
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He threw a lever and the twin 1500-horsepower engines roared to life.
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The image of Chantal vanished instantly as though some one had thrown a switch.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a knife with an ivory handle
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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I take the box, and hold it proudly by its string handle .
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In front of Twoflower, at chest height, was a small handle shaped like a brass dragon.
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Many silver pap boats were converted into cream boats by adding a handle and feet.
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Sensing trouble, I let go of the handles of my new barrow and ran into the crowd.
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She went over and tried one of the handles, but the cabinet was locked.
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The Blue Fog features large patches of rust, an oil leak, a loose handle and a temperamental pull cord.
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Then she was twisting the handle and discovering Oliver was not home.