adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
inner child
inner city
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the problems of our inner cities
inner harmony (= a feeling of being peaceful and calm )
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His search for inner harmony led him to Buddhism.
inner strength
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Geoff had an inner strength which got him through the tough times.
inner tube
inner/middle ear (= the parts inside your ear, which you use to hear sounds )
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I've got an infection in my middle ear.
sb’s inner circle (= the people who influence someone the most )
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He was among the Prime Minister’s inner circle of advisers.
the inner cabinet (= only the most important members )
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He was a member of Howard's inner cabinet.
the inside/inner edge
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He painted carefully around the inner edge of each door.
the outer/inner surface
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The outer surface of the shell is ridged.
your inner self (= your real character or feelings that are usually hidden from other people )
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Over the years she had put up barriers to protect her inner self.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
area
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One in four people are now jobless in inner areas like Tottenham and Peckham.
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But the real laboratory for all such experimentation is within our own body, in the inner areas of mind and soul.
cabinet
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The inner cabinet is to meet again today.
circle
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He is not one of the inner circle , and does not know where his orders came from.
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Hubbell, part of the Clintons' inner circle , is intimately familiar with their financial affairs.
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As well he might, being a member of the inner circle .
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His decision was upheld by nearly every senior official in his inner circle .
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For the inner circle , Mr Bush reached back to the Ford administration, and to his father's.
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Why would a member of his inner circle record such an event?
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And I felt privileged to be a member of his inner circle .
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Make large swirls in the icing, working from the outer edge into the inner circle .
city
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They wish the inner city , which is three-quarters black, would just disappear.
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The loudest voices say there is not much you can do in the inner cities .
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The clinic records, from an inner city teaching hospital we examined indicate that some believe sildenafil may belong in this category.
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The shy, scholarly Republican has roots both on the farm and in the inner city .
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Twice he worked for the Wellington City Mission, among the lost and lonely people of the inner city.
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Third term Thatcherism became grounded in the imaginary place that was called the inner city .
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Clearly without the deprivation payments some good inner city practices would have been bankrupted by the new contract.
conflict
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Headaches usually represent an inner conflict .
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But the dwarfs are free of inner conflicts , and have no desire to move beyond their phallic existence to intimate relations.
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With his help, Jane worked last winter on bringing these two selves together; on stopping the inner conflict .
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And an inner conflict lay between books and parish.
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Continue until there has been some resolution of the inner conflict .
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Blankly staring at the print, a visible record of his inner conflict , Sarella reeled forward, arms outstretched.
core
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Venus could lack such an inner core because of the lower central pressures corresponding to its lower gravity.
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Now, scientists say the inner core rotates slightly faster than the rest of Earth.
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These are also part of my inner core .
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At the center of one of these glyphs were the words inner core spiritual values.
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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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In 1936, she proposed that the earth had an inner core as well as an outer core.
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In the majority of his work, he displays a sympathy which reaches to the inner core of his subject.
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The planet had a solid inner core and a liquid outer core, both metallic.
courtyard
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In half an hour a dozen or so cars would drive into the inner courtyard and the morning shift would take over.
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In the inner courtyard around the altar were the women and children and one man, the old King.
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Amid apologies, he was ushered in, and led to a familiar inner courtyard to wait.
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There is a high, upper gallery that encircles the inner courtyard of the main house.
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The original cloisters are now a charming, shady walkway around an inner courtyard , the monks' cells now luxurious bedrooms.
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They agreed that they must seal off this inner courtyard and all within it, and sift through the trapped folk.
door
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The inner door stood open and through it she caught sight of Eleanor Shergold sitting in one of the pews.
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The inner door of the airlock opened, and the welcoming delegation entered.
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She only had to make it to the airlock, seal the inner door behind her and wait ....
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Mosquito netting: inner door flaps can be unzipped independently from the net.
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Together, the Doctor and Bishop scrambled through the inner door against the mounting pressure of air.
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Zips: one curved L-shaped zip on the flysheet and three zips on the inner door .
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The front door was open, revealing a stone-flagged porch, and an inner door with frosted glass in the top half.
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Once the inner door is closed and sealed, the bell is recovered to the surface and locked on to a decompression chamber.
ear
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I could not deny what I heard with my inner ear .
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Now that Kwong could see, he found redness in the inner ear , a sign of infection.
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There are various causes of damage to the inner ear - for example, exposure to loud noise.
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Vibrations or sound waves cause the eardrum to vibrate and these vibrations move through the middle ear to the inner ear.
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As age increases, the inner ear becomes less sensitive to high frequencies.
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In the inner ear they are changed into electrical messages.
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The head vein is dotted, the labyrinth of the inner ear is black.
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I heard in my inner ear what I wanted to hear and the rest ... well, it went down!
experience
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Such an attitude provides the inner experience of conflict for many.
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Heidegger Heidegger felt that the problem of skepticism arises from the presupposition of a distinction between inner experiences and external-world objects.
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This ritual process enacts a pattern which can be translated into inner experience in the contemplative discipline.
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One is that we must admit verbal reports of inner experiences of human beings as valid evidence for studies of consciousness.
life
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But they, like all creatures, clearly have their own inner life .
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Had she encountered it before, a young man-with an inner life ?
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Men aren't afraid to be soft, girly and foppish and celebrate the inner life .
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Although our inner lives have been relentlessly diminished by ecosocial isolation, the antidote lies in recovering awareness of our context.
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Successful treatment includes resolving the conflicts that produce depression - conflicts from within our inner life , or outer circumstances.
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This is the domain of artistic exploration: the limitless inner life of symbols and feelings.
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Rolle's Meditations embody at a literary level his appreciation of the shaping energies of the form of the inner life .
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This is the fact that without purpose, without meaning, the inner life decays.
peace
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What followed was a delight - an inner peace .
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Like other Whole Being participants, Roujansky said she relishes the inner peace fostered by the retreat.
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His reactions caused him pleasure, fury, deep repose or inner peace .
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Those Buddhists do not give me inner peace .
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Its greatest enemy is inner peace .
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I think I lacked inner peace .
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I saw centuries of craving for inner peace in those little figures.
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When we observe the Ego instead of taking it seriously, we find inner peace .
ring
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The inner ring itself could never quite understand her arrival there, and concluded finally that she made it through sheer cheek.
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Ringway One was an inner ring road running largely through working-class areas of housing stress.
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The inner ring is economically dependent on core Tyneside for the bulk of its employment opportunities.
sanctum
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And there would be me, allowed into their inner sanctum .
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Why should she have been invited into the inner sanctum while I had been so resolutely excluded?
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Renaissance encyclopaedias often had architectural structures, as though the reader were progressing towards the inner sanctum of truth.
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They stepped through, into the cool semi-darkness of the inner sanctum .
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This was when somebody opened the door to the inner sanctum where the support band was playing.
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She never presumed on her friendship with Eve by expecting to be let in to the inner sanctum .
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This inner sanctum looked as though they should all be waving little red books and were very vociferous.
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Cleanse your inner self of the forces, coupled with fear, that push you out of your inner sanctum .
self
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Their inner self will avoid exposure by controlling their feelings and emotions.
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I was a reverse chameleon, shedding my inner self while my skin remained intact.
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But we should not retreat into our inner selves .
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But this was the first time he'd offered to share any of his inner self .
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However, it does provide a unique guide to Leonardo's inner self .
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We discover that the mysteries in others, which used to leave us baffled and frustrated, now enrich our inner selves .
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Start listening to the subtle thoughts and feelings, the slight shifts in energy, which bubble up from your inner self .
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Many of these matters are areas of conflict: conflict with parents, friends, school, or our inner selves .
space
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Returning to the original metaphor of this chapter, the patient is taken into dangerous and unexplored territories of inner space .
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One inner space led to another.
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Whichever side is right, do hypnotists have the right to take patients into potentially dangerous, unknown areas of inner space ?
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The struggle to explore the inner space of their materials has driven sculptors to dig deep.
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A magically barred inner space , removed from everyday life.
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Package Tours into Inner space Excursions into inner space are proving far more dangerous than man's ventures into outer space.
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We are therefore exploring inner space in a vehicle which is alien and with only limited knowledge of its controls.
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Design will stand wind direction changes well Majority tend to be budget models Alternatives Transverse ridge - greater inner space .
state
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Your choice of peaceful music to harmonize your inner state of relaxation.
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Children become aware of the inner states of others and they are viewed as having different thoughts from oneself.
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Changing inner state can be used actively, for a specific effect.
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Soon the focus is on the behaviour, not on the inner state which gives rise to behaviour.
strength
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Then after a while she got an inner strength and asked me what Heaven was like.
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Chi goes to the inner strength of your personality, your character.
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Very strong in his own way, not swaggering or throwing his weight about, but a great inner strength .
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She has a talent for playing modern women who must find the inner strength to fight their own battles.
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There is a sense in which outer power is an illusion; inner strength can change the world.
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The study also found that 95 percent of women credit their family with building up their inner strength .
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Kungfu has three essential elements: speed, coordination and inner strength .
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Created between 1965 and the present, these works establish a powerful testament to inner strength and perseverance.
thigh
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I've done liposuction on her back, her inner thighs , her triceps and a little on her abdomen.
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Her legs sagged and a small trickle of urine dampened her inner thighs as the nun slowly turned to face her.
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Even when she strokes my inner thigh , back and forth like rocking a cradle, I hardly notice what she is doing.
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Parr looked at the exposure of her inner thigh with a dropping sensation.
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Place the beach ball on to your left leg inner thigh and raise you leg.
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Bend the other leg, placing the foot as close as possible to the inner thigh of the other leg.
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Bend your left knee and feel the stretch in the inner thigh of your right leg.
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I think I've bruised my inner thigh .
tube
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There we hoped to buy fruit, meat, sugar, sand-ladders and inner tubes .
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Biscuits are big, fat inner tubes pulled by speedboats.
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Cut a 5/8in wide band of bicycle inner tube .
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The seats of their stools are woven rubber inner tubes .
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The inner tube is negatively charged and the outer tube is made positive.
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The street waited for me the way a mako shark awaits limbs hanging from inner tubes .
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The mix is pumped gently down the inner tube , out through the bottom and up the outer tube.
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They are very useful for rubbing down inner tubes when mending a puncture.
turmoil
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In spite of her inner turmoil she felt the pull of the tranquillity of the place.
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Manylayered stories of ambition, folly and inner turmoil .
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The warmth and gentleness coaxed her surrender, subduing her inner turmoil and replacing it with something that was infinitely more disturbing.
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He said he felt no inner turmoil for the entire week.
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She was too preoccupied by her inner turmoil to fully appreciate the bubbling volcanic mud pools in the weird, lunar-like springs.
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Certainly, looming cancellation, panting adolescents and constant comparisons with a big star stir up inner turmoil .
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Lissa did not know where she found the strength to answer him without betraying anything of her inner turmoil .
voice
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Of course he wasn't, an inner voice taunted.
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Cassius chanted to himself, his inner voice as mechanical as the movements of his body.
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It can't be, an inner voice shrieked in violent protest.
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Emerson talks about listening to that inner voice and going with it, all voices to the contrary.
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It can be used as an inner voice in the woodwind ensemble, but tends to be obtrusive.
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But an inner voice tells me that it is not yet the real thing.
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But not completely different, an inner voice amended doggedly.
wall
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There are columns around the circumference of the Sanctuary, and various marble incrustations cover the inner walls .
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Mijic said his paper is facing an inner wall of sanctions, however.
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Charlie found himself mesmerised by the mosaic patterns that covered the inner walls , their tiny squares making up life-size portraits.
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The largest of these was attached to the inner wall of the heart by a thread of flesh.
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The second row, the inner wall , was of the same design.
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He picks up sensations, like electrical charges, from the hard inner walls that contain him.
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Nathaniel's name is high up on an inner wall of one of the piers.
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Defries and Bernice rolled towards the inner wall , and Bernice helped Defries to stand.
workings
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Norman yanked the plate off, exposing the machine's inner workings .
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New investigative techniques have opened up the black box of the brain and have begun to shed light on its inner workings .
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For all these reasons the inner workings of the bureaucracy remain hidden from view.
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Even without any conclusion, the research by safety officials is prompting more scrutiny of airplanes' aging inner workings .
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To each of us there are two compartments which form our inner workings .
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In turn, Hugh willingly provided George with insights into the inner workings of the company.
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But he was also a complex, highly secretive individual whose inner workings and motivations are profoundly glossed over in this film.
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What could be more postmodern than probing the hitherto sacrosanct inner workings of science?
world
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This is done on the basis of the objects of feeling which are mapped in our inner worlds .
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A generation loses itself in an inner world of feeling and self-awareness, oblivious of outside forces.
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A Renaissance prince, she thought, with an inner world no one would ever penetrate.
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This richness of experience is paralleled in the mystical traditions by the knowledge that ordinary human nature opens into vast inner worlds .
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The outer world faithfully reflects our inner world.
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Hindu and Buddhist writings describe a multitude of inner worlds .
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Numerous are the unresolved hurts which lurk in many of us, years after their first appearance in our inner world .
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The further I have gone in controlling the intricacies of flying discs, the more my inner world has unfolded.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
inner city/urban renewal
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Recent approaches to inner city renewal have relied very heavily on institutional innovations and tighter targeting of expenditure patterns.
inner sanctum
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He was soon accepted into the inner sanctums of city government.
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And there would be me, allowed into their inner sanctum .
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Cleanse your inner self of the forces, coupled with fear, that push you out of your inner sanctum .
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Renaissance encyclopaedias often had architectural structures, as though the reader were progressing towards the inner sanctum of truth.
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She never presumed on her friendship with Eve by expecting to be let in to the inner sanctum .
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They stepped through, into the cool semi-darkness of the inner sanctum .
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This inner sanctum looked as though they should all be waving little red books and were very vociferous.
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This was when somebody opened the door to the inner sanctum where the support band was playing.
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Why should she have been invited into the inner sanctum while I had been so resolutely excluded?
inner voice
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But an inner voice tells me that it is not yet the real thing.
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But not completely different, an inner voice amended doggedly.
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Cassius chanted to himself, his inner voice as mechanical as the movements of his body.
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Emerson talks about listening to that inner voice and going with it, all voices to the contrary.
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It can't be, an inner voice shrieked in violent protest.
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It can be used as an inner voice in the woodwind ensemble, but tends to be obtrusive.
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Of course he wasn't, an inner voice taunted.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Carefully remove the inner skin of the chestnuts.
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I've had to rely on my inner strength to weather the rumors.
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If he has any inner doubts, he doesn't show them.
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My wallet is in the inner breast pocket of my jacket.
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Terri has a inner confidence that her sister lacks.