I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a curry house British English (= a restaurant that serves curry )
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Let’s try that new curry house in town.
a debt/food/housing etc crisis
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The failure of the crop this year will create a food crisis.
a fashion house (= a company that produces new and expensive styles of clothes )
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fashion houses such as Armani and Hugo Boss
a house fire (= a fire that starts inside a house )
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Faulty electrical wiring is being blamed for a house fire.
a house guest (= someone who is staying in your house )
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There was a constant stream of house guests at their country estate.
a house plant (= a plant grown in a pot in the house )
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These make excellent house plants.
a house/factory/car etc blaze (= a burning house/factory/car etc )
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Three people were badly hurt in a house blaze.
a housing/residential complex (= for people to live in )
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Architects designed the residential complexes near the beach.
a property/housing boom (= a sudden increase in house prices )
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People made a lot of money in the 1980s property boom.
a water/food/housing etc shortage
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The water shortage was reaching crisis proportions.
a16th-/19th- etc century house/church etc
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They live in a 17th-century farmhouse.
acid house
art house
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art house films
auction house (= a company that arranges auctions )
bawdy house
be (as) safe as houses British English (= be completely safe )
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Your money will be as safe as houses.
boarding house
charnel house
clearing house
coach house
coffee house
council house
council/industrial/housing etc estate
counting house
country house
crack house
defence/energy/housing etc policy
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Our energy policies must put the environment first.
doll's house
doss house
dwelling house
fashion house
free house
front of house
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the front-of-house manager
full house
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Billy Graham is a speaker who can be sure of playing to a full house .
halfway house
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Belief is a kind of halfway house between non-belief and absolute proof.
haunted house
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a haunted house
having an open house
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We’re having an open house Sunday, noon to 5 pm.
hen house
house arrest
house call
house guest
house husband
house keys
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I’ve lost my house keys.
house martin
house music
house of cards
House of Commons
House of Lords
House of Representatives
house party
house/barn/loft etc conversion British English (= when you change the use of a house, barn etc, so that it becomes apartments, a house, a room etc )
house/flat/room mate (= someone you share a house, room etc with )
house/food/oil etc prices
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A poor harvest led to higher food prices.
house/home insurance
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The damage may be covered by your house insurance.
housing association
housing estate
housing project
housing/building land British English (= land where houses can be built )
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The shortage of housing land is a problem in the south-east.
kept open house
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He kept open house for a wide range of artists and writers.
lodging house
Lower House
move house/home British English (= go to live in a different house )
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My parents kept moving house because of my dad’s job.
oast house
on the house (= paid for by the restaurant, hotel etc )
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Each table will get a bottle of champagne on the house .
open house
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Parents are invited to attend the open house next Thursday.
opera house
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the Sydney Opera House
play catch/house/tag/school etc
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Outside, the children were playing cowboys and Indians.
playing to a full house
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Billy Graham is a speaker who can be sure of playing to a full house .
public house
public housing
publishing house (= publishing company )
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a new publishing house
ranch house
rooming house
row house
safe house
show house
social housing
station house
sth holds/houses a collection formal
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The museum holds a comprehensive collection of photographs from that period.
tenement building/house/block
terraced house
the house wine (= ordinary wine that is used in restaurants, in contrast to wines that are sold by the bottle and have the label of a wine produce on them )
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a glass of the house wine
the housing/property etc market
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Investors in the property market are worried about rising inflation.
the key to a door/house/cupboard (= the key that opens a door/house/cupboard )
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Has anyone seen the key to the garage door?
the man/woman/house etc of your dreams (= the perfect one for you )
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We can help you find the house of your dreams.
the White House
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claims that the White House had received warnings of a possible terrorist attack before September 11th
tied house
timbered houses/cottages
Tudor house/buildings/architecture etc (= built in the style used in the Tudor period )
Upper House
view a house/an apartment/a property (= go to see a house etc that you are interested in buying )
wendy house
White House
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claims that the White House had received warnings of a possible terrorist attack before September 11th
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
full
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The atmosphere was tense and all realised it was heads down for a full house .
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The Becketts have a full house and then some.
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Even a full house would be piffling for a town with so vast a drawing area.
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The next week, we had a full house at the lunch.
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Tick them off as they appear - until you can call Diamond full house .
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Until the spring almost every night had been a full house , and business had been brisk even after the war started.
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There has been a woman governor-general before, but not in this kind of full house .
public
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There would be no public houses , but markets and shops would all be in the plan.
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All the remaining public houses do bar meals and meals.
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One useful change has been the restoring of parity of permitted hours for clubs opening with those enjoyed by public houses .
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Work has started re-building one of the region's most well-known public houses .
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Many of the smaller gaols formed the rear of public houses with the publican doubling his duties with that of gaoler.
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Mr. Gilbert, the complainant, gave evidence that on the evening of 22 April 1990 he was in a public house .
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There are two excellent public houses and a charming hillside parish church, all worth visiting.
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The accident outside the George public house at Gravesend followed violence in the town centre.
safe
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It was logical really that I should be brought from my anonymous safe house to the Hezbollah's Hay Madi barracks.
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They reportedly control an organization that lists at least 20 safe houses in Tijuana alone and numbers as many as 400 people.
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It was a safe house in a bad area at a bad time.
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Side turnings; stopovers; safe houses .
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And the finest safe house on the road back to Ireland.
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We're moving you to a safe house in Wapping.
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Past it, except for running safe houses .
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She was placed in a safe house but later returned to the coven of her own free will.
upper
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Elections to the National Council, the upper house , were held in June 1991.
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They successfully tied up the upper house in endless debate.
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Nevertheless the odds, in the upper house , remain against one.
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Pinochet and who hold the swing vote in the upper house .
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They were able to do this because of the informal nature of the old upper house .
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The Tories, however, enjoyed the ascendancy in the upper house .
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Its members may hope automatically to become members of the Federal Council, the upper house of the proposed new Federal Assembly.
■ NOUN
arrest
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All this time, Lumumba had been under house arrest in Leopoldville.
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Tried in Hanoi on charges of sedition, he died under house arrest in Hue fifteen years later.
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Teitgen said 3,024 of the 24,000 people he had ordered to be put under house arrest disappeared.
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Park then placed him under house arrest , while his captors went free, and later imprisoned him for sedition.
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And the Demomcrats leader remained under house arrest .
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After he voluntarily returned home in 1985, Kim was placed under house arrest again.
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They are keeping scores of officials under house arrest in the hotel.
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Upon release in June, he faces five years of house arrest and probation.
auction
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Both dealers and auction houses favour the tax benefit.
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World Golf opened in mid-December in Sherman Oaks, in a brick building that once was an auction house .
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And if the auction houses aren't doing well ... it's a vicious circle.
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Particularly in New York, many of the auction houses look intimidating.
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In addition to fashion, Bond Street is also renowned for its auction houses and for its fine art galleries.
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It cost $ 93, 500 at an auction house .
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The auction house typically takes a cut of the vendor's taking.
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The wealthy Detroit property developer of shopping malls enjoyed the social prestige of owning the world's largest auction house .
clearing
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Thus, it is nothing more than a clearing house which does nothing in its own right.
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How efficient the place was - a model clearing house for death, turning out its yearly quota of corpses.
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The clearing house holds accounts for all the clearing members of the exchange.
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The short informs the clearing house of these arrangements.
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Out-of-hours trading is permitted by the clearing house and can account for up to a third of on-exchange trading.
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Overburdened by commitments elsewhere, Unesco can only act as a clearing house for independently sponsored initiatives.
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It also acted as a central store and clearing house for hops, organising the supply to the brewers.
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Arrangements will include a clearing house to help match staff with vacancies and special provisions for retraining.
country
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Nivingston House Charming old country house restaurant.
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It was her first experience of staying in a country house .
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When she spoke of it, I saw her as a little girl in a great Virginia country house .
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The home was not for most a country house or a cottage, but a town villa or tenement.
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Inside, there's a country house atmosphere.
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Good country house furniture in mahogany and pine, plus silver, brass and pictures, are on sale.
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The absence of panegyric in itself sets Leapor's poem apart from earlier country house poems.
guest
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Accommodations include several hotels and small inns, guest houses , farmhouses and self-catering units.
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Please note that prices quoted by hotels and guest houses may be based on double occupancy of a room.
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I saw the helicopter hover in the air, and then it crashed into our guest house .
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We left the guest house , going through stone-vaulted passageways into the cloister garth.
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Three years later, the couple opened their 10-bedroom home-with-a-difference as a guest house .
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There are a full range of excellent hotels and guest houses throughout the county.
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There is also a guest house , studio, tennis court and pool.
manor
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Beautiful, medieval, moated manor house in the heart of the Kentish Weald.
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I walk a way along the beach, then turn to look at the manor house .
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She had made enough money to maintain Cliff Top as the substantial manor house it had become.
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Families cherished their forbears, whether these had lived in humble cottages or in manor houses .
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The hotel was a converted manor house .
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Wood Dalling Hall epitomises the perfect Elizabethan manor house .
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Meanwhile, Seb tied the reins of his horse to the back of the cart before sprinting towards the manor house .
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Most of these studios have beautiful sea views, and are situated in the main part of the Manor house .
opera
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Not only was the curtain rung down but the opera house was dismantled.
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They polished up the opera house , and every summer stars from the Metropolitan came out and performed.
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She frequently appeared on the London stage and other leading opera houses , and sang with Paul Robeson at Caernarfon.
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Look at the opera house and supertitles.
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Once the best you could hope for was a 50-year-old prima ballerina who sometimes starred at the local opera house .
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There was great resistance initially, but now almost every opera house uses them.
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Mr Clinton was horribly late for a night at the Hanoi opera house , keeping everyone waiting.
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By the mid-1880s Atchison had gas and electricity, a hospital, a good library, and an opera house .
price
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Despite these house price rises, housing conditions in Manchester remained poor with almost 30 percent lacking exclusive plumbing facilities.
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For this reason fears have been expressed that rising house prices pose a major threat to price stability generally.
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The allowance will be based on a payment of £100 for each £1000 of agreed house price difference.
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Its special factors should be recognised and it should have a regional banding system more reflective of its house prices .
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But until April, lower interest rates failed to offset the impact of the recession and house prices continued to fall.
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Indeed, the financial institutions would be hit by a continued slip in house prices .
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The figures on relative shares then become highly variable, depending on factors such as share prices and house prices.
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As long as house prices rise this will present no problem.
software
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If you bought mail order, then the first point of contact is the software house or importer concerned.
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The goal is to have several hundred software houses rallied to the banner by the end of the year.
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Second, software houses are happily riding the wave of innovation that the Internet has set off.
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It is also contemplating tie-ups with software houses or large user organisations abroad.
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Another 7 percent is contracted with independent software house , and computer makers provide the remaining 6 percent.
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This exploratory project examines the marketing procedure undertaken by a number of software houses .
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The advantage of working with a software house to design your own package is that the end product is tailor-made.
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Sierra On-Line is a software house that is justly famous for its high-quality games.
■ VERB
build
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So all you budding Fred Flintstones can now build a house for Wilma.
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Still unsuccessful, they built and sold houses .
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Their desire to keep rates down made them reluctant to build council houses .
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Speedo Man is a very gifted woodworker who built his house from the ground up, she tells me.
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Why is it the policy of the Government to build fewer houses ?
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A.. Try plumbing supply shops, hardware stores and building supply houses .
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He was building this house and he did not know why.
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One built a house of straw, one built a house of sticks, one built a house of bricks.
buy
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He had bought a small house - a cottage really.
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I need to buy a house , she writes to Rich.
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He is buying a farm house along with several acres of ground, but the riding will be strictly for his children.
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The couple worked hard, and managed to raise and educate three children and to buy a house .
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Robert Maxwell bought the houses and some of the adjacent land in nineteen eighty eight.
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His wife was pregnant, they were looking to buy a house , and he needed to make money.
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Since buying the cottage, house prices had started on a steady descent.
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And he wanted to buy the house because...
keep
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His tough character keeps him in the house and looks forward to the awaiting adventure.
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This is not the way I keep my house .
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There is no doubt that she will be kept busy at her house in Elderslie with eight grand-children in her family.
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Where keeping house and cooking were not female chores but simple tasks of pleasure and survival.
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No, I shall keep the house exactly as it was; he'd want me to do that.
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It was hard work keeping house .
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She couldn't bear things like Anna refusing to keep house or giving any pleasure to herself.
move
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It also asks about their work, their educational qualifications, and whether they have moved house in recent years.
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He recently moved from his house near Ina and Shannon to one near his store.
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I spoke to a middle-aged woman in Sunderland who moved into her council house when it was new thirty years ago.
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On the first of September we moved into our new house .
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Her round of days seemed to me to be a drone-like existence, moving from house to compound, compound to house.
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Then he moved to a half way house for gay alcoholics.
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You've moved house and now live in an area away from your family and old friends.
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They moved into the three-bedroom house in February of that year and said they have enjoyed every day since.
own
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He owned half the houses in Page Street as well as his flourishing transport concern.
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He and his wife own a showcase house in the Armory Park neighborhood.
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And this pillock that owned the house later painted over it with emulsion.
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Meanwhile, the family owning the house cooked food and prepared drinks for all the people working.
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The church once owned the house on Greenfield Drive where Pimentel and his wife, Evelyn, live with their son.
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I've never owned a house .
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I wonder if the guy who owns the house films what goes on there with hidden cameras.
rent
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It was something connected with three students who rented their house some years ago.
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He and Maria rented a small house .
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Farrelly rented a house nearby and she would play truant, hitching the eight miles there to rehearse.
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Sadly, they were forced to rent their dream house to tenants for the $ 25 monthly mortgage.
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I was under the impression that people who rented council houses would have to pay the new council tax in addition to their rents.
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One of my busboys commutes from a rented house in Fairfield.
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Covers both the private and social rented sectors and considers rent levels, rent patterns, house prices and rates of return.
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He had been trying to rent his houses , but with-out success.
run
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I ran out of the house immediately and came to London to ask for your help.
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I seen blood, and with his screaming, I panicked and ran straight to our house .
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The local sea's bare running up to the house tufting its waves with red seaweed spread against a Hebridean noon.
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The day ticked by slowly and finally I was out on the street, running toward the Trowbridge house .
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The cavalry officer pushed a hand through his long golden hair as he ran up the house steps.
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Diana Macias, then 15, recounted later how she ran through her smoke-filled house trying to find a way out.
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As soon as the doctor arrived, he ran breathlessly into the house and burst into the room without knocking.
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I ran out of the house , car keys in my hand.
share
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Hay, who shared Bryan's house in Fulham, south London, always forgave him.
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We shared this house all the years of my childhood, and a good many summers afterward.
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Also sharing the house , a fox terrier called Leo.
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There they shared a house sheltered by love.
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A proper rented room in a shared house in Chiswick.
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She had wanted to share the house for, after all, history belongs to everybody.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be under house arrest
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He, he was under house arrest.
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The editor of the party newspaper is under house arrest for printing a report about tanks being moved out of Tirana.
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We are not in darkest prison like our brothers and sisters in the flesh, but we are under house arrest.
brokerage house/firm
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Adler Coleman, a clearing company for about 40 brokerage firms, files for bankruptcy protection.
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Also, many foreign-exchange brokerage firms closed at noon.
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Because she has a substantial portfolio, she should be able to seek this out at any full-service brokerage firm.
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Computer and semiconductor stocks slid as three brokerage firms downgraded earnings estimates for Dell Computer.
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Of course, there is intense competition among the London brokerage houses to signal their bids as fast as possible.
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The authority said the banks and brokerage firms eliminated or are resolving the problems.
dream house/home/job etc
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A palace, Carolyn told herself, a dream house.
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But just a couple of days after they moved into their dream home in Quedgeley, it was stolen and torched.
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Cracking up ... the dream home that's become a couple's nightmare.
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Finally, my family had a dream home and I had my own room with a view of Mount Fuji.
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It was all preparation for her dream job: a foreign correspondent, roaming the world in a trench coat.
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John Combes and his wife lived out their lives in their dream house, and their children stayed here until the 1760s.
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Sadly, they were forced to rent their dream house to tenants for the $ 25 monthly mortgage.
eat sb out of house and home
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Our sixteen-year-old is eating us out of house and home.
feng shui a room/house etc
from place to place/house to house etc
have your hair cut/your house painted etc
house/flat share
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In the wall both houses shared there was a little chink.
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Many brokerage house shares were also lower.
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The facility also houses shared and dedicated web hosting servers.
house/flat with vacant possession
not a dry eye in the house
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There wasn't by a dry eye in the house after Marvin finished his graduation speech.
people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones
rented accommodation/housing/apartment etc
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Ed, who lives in rented accommodation, plans to use the money as a down-payment on a house.
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Many are trapped in the inner cores because of the unavailability of rented housing beyond the cities.
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Many potential homeowners decided to sit out the recession in rented accommodation, leaving their money in high-earning accounts.
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The group will also recommend improved access to private rented accommodation through rent deposit schemes.
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The report points out that the idea of local housing companies as landlord bodies for social rented housing originated in Glasgow.
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They remain very vulnerable in privately rented accommodation as they can often be ignorant of their rights.
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This would apply to rented accommodation, council houses, etc.
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Those in public and privately rented housing do not obtain the same sense of personal identity.
set up home/house
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All the costs of getting a mortgage, moving and setting up home can run into thousands.
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And he set up house for her in a bungalow further along the river, in a nice secluded part.
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Desmond Wilcox was a grown man when he chose to leave his wife and children and set up home with Esther.
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Nor do I think that it is disgraceful if two men of a loving disposition should set up home together.
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The two new Mr and Mrs Kim-Soons set up house next door.
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These nests will shortly be visited by the female in whose larger territory the various males have set up home.
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Thousands of them have set up home in the eaves of this house in Banbury.
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Why not just leave - set up home in a more tolerant spiritual pew?
sheltered accommodation/housing
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A regional study of difficult-to-let sheltered accommodation for older people Falshaw, Richard.
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Apartments opened A £725,000 sheltered housing scheme for the elderly was officially opened in Irvinestown today.
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For example, little sheltered housing has been constructed for the old and disabled.
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Shortly after buying it, Denega was refused listed building consent to demolish the chapel and develop 21 sheltered accommodation units.
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The sheltered housing is close to local amenities to allow residents easy access to shops and other facilities.
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The issue is to decide the extent to which sufferers may be supported and maintained in sheltered housing.
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We have sheltered accommodation, with understanding professional staff, for blind men and women who are unable to look after themselves.
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With it went planning consent for the sheltered accommodation units.
the House of Commons
the House of Lords
the House of Representatives
the Speaker of the House
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Gore even enlisted the aid of Newt Gingrich, the Speaker of the House.
the White House
the lady of the house
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And the lady of the house hugs you and laughs, and takes you to the sea to wash your face.
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Here again the lady of the house was so kind and resourceful.
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I don't know what he said to the lady of the house, but we were not invited to return.
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Then the lady of the house calls them to come and eat, and the sad little performance ends.
the man of the house
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But even when the man of the house was around, she was head of the household and determined all our fortunes.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a detached house in Surrey
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a three-bedroom semi-detached house
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America's oldest publishing house
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Be quiet or you'll wake the whole house !
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I'm going to Bethany's house after school.
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I went over to Barbara's house after school.
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My parents have a five-bedroom house .
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Our house is the one with the red door.
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the House of Dior
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The bill has the backing of both houses of Congress.
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The street ran between rows of dingy terraced houses.
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The street was lined with identical red-brick houses.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Dilapidated public schools-their windows covered by protective grilles coexist with crack houses.
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I was dressed and out of the house in ten long minutes with gas-fuelled hair tongs in my hand.
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Immediately these men destroyed the houses that had been built on the land.
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Mrs Kim-Soon exclaimed that she would not put up with another Mrs Kim-Soon in the house .
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Now they had a smart restaurant in Blackheath, another in Knightsbridge, and a chain of pizza houses.
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She left the house for the farmers' market.
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Which gives my house the unique decor of a kitsch museum crossed with a landfill.
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Women orbited about surfers on the beach; they clung to them in cars; they occupied their houses in loose liaisons.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
building
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Every building seems designed to house desks and computers.
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By the early 1970s there were five buildings housing about thirty-five hundred men and women.
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The building also houses the Regional Archives.
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As for the library, the surviving books without a proper building to house them must have made a dismal appearance.
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This was purpose-built as a corn mill, although Constance used part of the building to house his wood-turning business.
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The new building will house its manufacturing, research, laboratory, sales, marketing and administration departments.
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A massive, grey stone Victorian building , it housed over 1600 inmates, twice its allotted amount.
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Public buildings such as libraries house less personal records in the form of newspapers, parliamentary accounts and other documents.
collection
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The possibility of a new wing to house the future photographic collections is under discussion.
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Railway enthusiasts will be interested in the Richard Guinness Hall which houses his magnificent collection of many prototypes of early railway engines.
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The Bowes Museum at Barnard Castle houses an exquisite collection of objetsd'art.
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For a short time in the 1920s this library housed the collections of the National Gallery.
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Baron Ferdinand wanted to house his fine collections and have somewhere to entertain his guests.
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Today the Gallery houses a fine collection of furniture and paintings.
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More surprisingly, the Pitti Palace at Florence housed a collection of amber vessels, cabinets, figures, caskets and crucifixes.
family
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It was large enough to house his family of six, and three resident maids.
museum
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The second floor also houses the museum of Contemporary Art.
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Normally housed in a museum beneath the Kremlin Armory, they have never before traveled to the United States.
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The High Synagogue now houses a textile museum and you may buy tickets here for all the museums in the ghetto.
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The mill buildings house a museum of old implements and materials associated with corn production and milling.
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The exploration company said artifacts recovered from the new expedition will be housed in a permanent museum and exhibited around the world.
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After all, these mummies were housed in a museum in Ur mchi.
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In Florence, for example, statues have been taken down and housed in museums with replicas being put in their place.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be under house arrest
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He, he was under house arrest.
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The editor of the party newspaper is under house arrest for printing a report about tanks being moved out of Tirana.
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We are not in darkest prison like our brothers and sisters in the flesh, but we are under house arrest.
brokerage house/firm
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Adler Coleman, a clearing company for about 40 brokerage firms, files for bankruptcy protection.
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Also, many foreign-exchange brokerage firms closed at noon.
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Because she has a substantial portfolio, she should be able to seek this out at any full-service brokerage firm.
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Computer and semiconductor stocks slid as three brokerage firms downgraded earnings estimates for Dell Computer.
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Of course, there is intense competition among the London brokerage houses to signal their bids as fast as possible.
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The authority said the banks and brokerage firms eliminated or are resolving the problems.
dream house/home/job etc
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A palace, Carolyn told herself, a dream house.
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But just a couple of days after they moved into their dream home in Quedgeley, it was stolen and torched.
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Cracking up ... the dream home that's become a couple's nightmare.
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Finally, my family had a dream home and I had my own room with a view of Mount Fuji.
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It was all preparation for her dream job: a foreign correspondent, roaming the world in a trench coat.
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John Combes and his wife lived out their lives in their dream house, and their children stayed here until the 1760s.
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Sadly, they were forced to rent their dream house to tenants for the $ 25 monthly mortgage.
from place to place/house to house etc
house/flat share
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In the wall both houses shared there was a little chink.
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Many brokerage house shares were also lower.
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The facility also houses shared and dedicated web hosting servers.
house/flat with vacant possession
job-hunting/house-hunting/flat-hunting
not a dry eye in the house
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There wasn't by a dry eye in the house after Marvin finished his graduation speech.
people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones
rented accommodation/housing/apartment etc
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Ed, who lives in rented accommodation, plans to use the money as a down-payment on a house.
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Many are trapped in the inner cores because of the unavailability of rented housing beyond the cities.
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Many potential homeowners decided to sit out the recession in rented accommodation, leaving their money in high-earning accounts.
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The group will also recommend improved access to private rented accommodation through rent deposit schemes.
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The report points out that the idea of local housing companies as landlord bodies for social rented housing originated in Glasgow.
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They remain very vulnerable in privately rented accommodation as they can often be ignorant of their rights.
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This would apply to rented accommodation, council houses, etc.
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Those in public and privately rented housing do not obtain the same sense of personal identity.
sheltered accommodation/housing
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A regional study of difficult-to-let sheltered accommodation for older people Falshaw, Richard.
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Apartments opened A £725,000 sheltered housing scheme for the elderly was officially opened in Irvinestown today.
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For example, little sheltered housing has been constructed for the old and disabled.
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Shortly after buying it, Denega was refused listed building consent to demolish the chapel and develop 21 sheltered accommodation units.
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The sheltered housing is close to local amenities to allow residents easy access to shops and other facilities.
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The issue is to decide the extent to which sufferers may be supported and maintained in sheltered housing.
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We have sheltered accommodation, with understanding professional staff, for blind men and women who are unable to look after themselves.
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With it went planning consent for the sheltered accommodation units.
the House of Commons
the House of Lords
the House of Representatives
the Speaker of the House
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Gore even enlisted the aid of Newt Gingrich, the Speaker of the House.
the White House
the lady of the house
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And the lady of the house hugs you and laughs, and takes you to the sea to wash your face.
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Here again the lady of the house was so kind and resourceful.
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I don't know what he said to the lady of the house, but we were not invited to return.
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Then the lady of the house calls them to come and eat, and the sad little performance ends.
the man of the house
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But even when the man of the house was around, she was head of the household and determined all our fortunes.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Last year, the Tri-City Homeless Coalition housed 800 people.
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The plush hotel once housed a casino and several restaurants.
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The refugees have been fed, clothed and housed by welfare organizations around the world.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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The High Synagogue now houses a textile museum and you may buy tickets here for all the museums in the ghetto.