I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a fishing/hunting licence (= a licence that allows you to fish/hunt )
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He renewed his hunting license.
a hunting expedition
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He was joined on his hunting expedition by two local guides.
bargain hunting
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They're off to do some bargain hunting at the January sales.
house hunting (= the activity of looking at houses that you might buy )
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Have you had any success with your house hunting?
hunt saboteur
hunt whales
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Some countries continue to hunt whales, even though they have no real use for them and the whales are in danger of extinction.
hunting ground
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Madeira used to be a happy hunting ground for antique collectors.
illegal parking/gambling/hunting etc
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The fines for illegal parking are likely to increase.
look for/hunt for clues
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Investigators descended on the crime scene hunting for clues.
parade/hunting/burial etc ground
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These fields served as a hunting ground for the local people.
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The rivers are used as dumping grounds for industrial waste.
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He is buried in sacred ground.
the hunting/shooting/fishing season
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Autumn was traditionally the hunting season.
treasure hunt
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
around
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After a great deal of hunting around with flashlights, the plain-clothes policemen were forced to go away empty-handed.
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He did a lot of hunting around here.
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It also announced that it would take no new orders as it hunts around for a cash injection to keep it solvent.
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Bowman forced his fingers to hunt around , and presently discovered the pear-shaped bulb.
down
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The servants of Chaos were hunted down in the forests, and many wild and long-abandoned lands were re-settled.
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Those who refused, he said, were hunted down and killed by Arellano hit squads.
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She hunted down the telephone number through directory enquiries and then rang.
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They may hunt down a historic building they read about in the morning paper.
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The thief had to be hunted down , taught a lesson, keys had to be thrown away.
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Isabella now sent Henry of Lancaster to the lordship of Glamorgan to hunt down the king and the younger Despenser.
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Soon the hated secret police were being hunted down and shot in the streets.
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Those who fought back were declared outlaws and hunted down .
out
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He chatted about the weather, the racing, the poor scent out hunting - did she hunt?
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Then one day he went out hunting with his younger brother.
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I've seen him twice out hunting , when we were following by car.
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One day the elder of the two went out hunting , and disappeared.
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But the sins are there, in small corners, to be hunted out .
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He was out hunting and hot and thirsty entered a grotto where a little stream widened into a pool.
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So each interviewer goes out hunting for informants who fit into the right boxes - or quotas.
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When the twins were out hunting , she ran between them in the form of a ravishing doe.
■ NOUN
deer
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There was a lot of shooting and fishing and hunting of deer .
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Mark deployed his vivid imagination in a wild-child narrative to create a boy who hunts deer , bears, and birds.
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The Qawrighul people hunted deer , wild sheep and birds, and fished.
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In autumn they hunted deer on Joseph Creek on their return.
extinction
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There, for 20 years, she had watched helplessly as that country's wildlife was systematically hunted to extinction .
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Whales, too, were hunted to near extinction before the moratorium-of 1986.
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The aurochs are thought to have been hunted to extinction in Britain during the Bronze Age.
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The big cat has been hunted to near extinction .
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Wolves, which are clean and beautiful, have been hunted almost to extinction because they are seen as dangerous.
food
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Scathach used the periods of summer to hunt for food , and gather edible plants.
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The concealed flakes must have reminded him of hunting for food on a shingle beach.
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Consider the following scenario: a caveman leaves his cave one day setting out in order to hunt for food .
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Coyotes hunt in packs when their food is deer but hunt alone when their food is mice.
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Another theory was that the tusks protect the eyes when the babirusa is hunting for food among thorny undergrowth.
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Then send the animals to hunt for food .
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Would their behaviour alter dramatically if they were left to hunt for food in the wild?
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Soon the hunters who travelled by rail hunted not for food or protection, but for trophies and sport.
killer
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The last minutes of their lives were pieced together by forensic teams hunting the killers .
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Detectives hunting Damilola's killers have found a kitchen knife with cloth wrapped around the handle and a broken bottle.
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Read in studio Police hunting the killer of a pensioner last Christmas have arrested a man.
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Again she went alone, because the Goad case came along and he had to hunt down a gangland killer .
pack
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He attacked the lobby system of political reporting and the increased tendency for critics to hunt as a pack .
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Coyotes hunt in packs when their food is deer but hunt alone when their food is mice.
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These were the first examples my research threw up, which leads me to wonder why the letter H hunts in packs .
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Mobs hunted in packs , smashing windows and looting goods.
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While they're suitably snotty, they don't hunt in packs - we're not talking Axi Rose's scapegoats here.
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They hunted in packs , and were individually from two to three metres long.
police
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Read in studio Police hunting the so called Fishermead rapist in Milton Keynes have new leads following a nationwide appeal.
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The man police are hunting after double rape.
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Hunt for murder victim's clothes POLICE hunting a businessman's killer appealed yesterday for help to find his clothes.
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Hitmen hunt: 7 seized POLICE hunting the contract killers of accountant David Wilson arrested six men and a woman yesterday.
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They first told police they had been hunting for foxes.
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Read in studio Police are hunting a gang of armed robbers who've invaded three homes of people in their eighties.
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Police link truck to house break-in POLICE are hunting two men believed to be responsible for a break-in in Stisted.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a happy/good hunting ground (for sth)
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I pass up a roadside rest area, a happy hunting ground for new cars and ready cash.
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In the early years of this century, many a collector found Madeira a happy hunting ground.
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Scandinavia was a happy hunting ground for him and he did the same for Nicolai Gedda.
go hunting
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And there were many who wondered why Holy Trinity had to go hunting for causes so far from home.
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Just like humans, they go hunting with their blowpipes and they erect snares and traps in the jungle.
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Oh my, I think we're going hunting .
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Rufus told himself now was no time to go hunting for libraries, he would go home first.
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Sumal, her sister, who was not at all beautiful, dressed like a man and loved to go hunting .
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The group members then went hunting for another buyer, finally persuading media giant Gannett Co. to buy their option.
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We hunted only a few times but by the end I knew I would never go hunting again.
job-hunting/house-hunting/flat-hunting
the thrill of the chase/hunt
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A strange feeling of expectation mixed with our fear as we became caught up in the thrill of the hunt.
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But it is not every image that succeeds in suggesting something of the thrill of the hunt as well as curiosity.
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Was it just the thrill of the chase?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Friends and neighbors hunted everywhere, but no-one could find the child.
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I hunted all morning for the book of photos, but couldn't find it.
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Many opponents of the regime who escaped abroad were later hunted down and killed.
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Police are still hunting for the girl's killer.
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The leopard hunts at night.
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This isn't the season for hunting deer.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Bears, it appeared, were hunted.
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He chatted about the weather, the racing, the poor scent out hunting - did she hunt?
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The little tern's numbers have been threatened since Victorian times when it was hunted for its snow-white plumage.
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They implicitly calculated the costs and benefits of hunting, gathering, and eating each other.
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Ullman the Second, ruler of Crolgaria for thirty years, died unexpectedly in a riding accident yesterday while hunting.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
nationwide
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During the nationwide hunt for Stephanie's kidnapper the case was featured on Crimewatch on February 20 last year.
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We can't do a nationwide hunt for the man, it's not on.
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Police launched a nationwide hunt for Dawn Loasby, 33, amid fears for their safety.
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Police have launched a nationwide hunt for Moore, who has served a jail sentence for armed robbery.
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Cope's insistence on pressing all formats in a specific shade of blue led to a nationwide hunt for an appropriate plant.
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Rhodes and her baby were at the centre of a nationwide hunt last month when they went missing.
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A nationwide hunt has been launched.
■ NOUN
lion
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I have also started to write about the lion hunt organized by Claudia for Waindell Leavitt.
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Much of the money went to airing the videotape of the lion hunt , shot in Idaho six years ago.
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How do you make a film of a man faking a documentary about a lion hunt ?
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The laibon believes that he can pinpoint the beginning of his troubles to this lion hunt .
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This man, Tepilit, was injured helping me with the filming of a lion hunt .
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I heard about the lion hunt .
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He simply sees a connection between the sham lion hunt and the all-too-real execution of his brother.
murder
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Ten thousand pound reward in murder hunt .
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A murder hunt was about to begin.
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Police initially believed the pair had died in the fire - but within three days a full-scale murder hunt was launched.
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Now a new television programme re-tells the murder hunt .
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The murder hunt team are now back at square one after having arrested and released 27 men.
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Judge comes down hard on acid attackers. Murder hunt .
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The Yard launched the biggest murder hunt London has seen for years in the search for Miss Dando's killer.
saboteur
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The hunt saboteurs say they were threatened after the incident.
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As for whether it was hunt saboteurs or home-going Christmas drunks, the station will make all possible enquiries.
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Read in studio Two huntsmen have been jailed for two months for knocking down a hunt saboteur with a four wheeled buggy.
supporter
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We have over a million shooters and hunt supporters who used their vote.
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But hunt supporters say they're not worried.
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Jailed: The hunt supporters who used a buggy as a weapon.
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Both hunt supporters were given unconditional bail and they left court without comment.
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But hunt supporters say it won't affect them.
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As hunt supporters made their case, their opponents delivered a 16,000 name petition.
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It's first time hunt supporters have been jailed for assaulting a protester.
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The hunt supporters believe the ban in unlawful and plan to challenge it in the courts.
treasure
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There will be a daylong jamboree, treasure hunt and barbecue on the Saturday.
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First we're going to send you on a treasure hunt , collecting information from the magazine.
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Treasure September sees the launch of the appeal raffle and a treasure hunt at a venue to be fixed.
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The indoor table top games, such as treasure hunts and building Stonehenge, are aimed at improving management and team building skills.
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Children can enjoy a special treasure hunt , a bouncy castle and Punch and Judy shows.
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Great for treasure hunts and decorating cakes.
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Activities include a treasure hunt , country dancing, a bouncy castle, kite-making and painting.
witch
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We would all do well to remember that, and not transform a debate about right-wing imagery into a witch hunt .
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He has accused Starr, the independent Whitewater counsel, of conducting a partisan witch hunt .
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First, they generated a witch hunt inside the palace to discover my sources.
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Why was the witch hunt of the l9S0s mobilized at that particular time?
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Instead of a witch hunt , the government showed a united front.
■ VERB
join
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The chasers join in the hunt once the monkeys are on the move.
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Will convinces the pair not to eat them, but instead join forces in the hunt for the pirates and their captives.
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Many sacrificed some of their Christmas holiday to join the hunt for her.
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And Auntie Nan decided to join the hunt .
launch
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Police launched a nationwide hunt for Dawn Loasby, 33, amid fears for their safety.
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Police have launched a nationwide hunt for Moore, who has served a jail sentence for armed robbery.
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The Yard launched the biggest murder hunt London has seen for years in the search for Miss Dando's killer.
lead
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But the officer leading the hunt says he's convinced the girl's story is genuine.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the thrill of the chase/hunt
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A strange feeling of expectation mixed with our fear as we became caught up in the thrill of the hunt.
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But it is not every image that succeeds in suggesting something of the thrill of the hunt as well as curiosity.
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Was it just the thrill of the chase?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Police have launched a nationwide hunt for the killer.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Essentially Britain is abandoning the hunt for cannabis smugglers and dealers in a dramatic relaxation of policy on the drug.
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How do you make a film of a man faking a documentary about a lion hunt ?
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Sometimes such hunts are dismissed and sometimes not.
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The hunters were not even breaking even, yet the hunt continued despite the falling catches.
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What had started out as a quest for metallic hydrogen now became a serious hunt for fusion.