I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an exclusive report/interview/picture (= appearing in only one newspaper or magazine )
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The newspaper featured exclusive pictures of the couple’s new baby.
conduct an interview
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Here are a few guidelines on how to conduct an interview.
frank discussion/interview/exchange of views etc
question/interrogate/interview a suspect
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Police confirmed that six suspects are being questioned.
the police question/interview sb
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Police are questioning two men about the deaths.
wear sth to a party/a dance/an interview etc
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I’m wearing a scarlet dress to the party.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
exclusive
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The wandering spirit was ousted, Diana's younger brother Charles revealed in an exclusive interview , and their beloved dad recovered.
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There are also exclusive interviews and highlights of the playoff series with the San Diego Padres.
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In an exclusive interview , Richard Feast discovers that his reputation for straight, sometimes controversial, talking is not exaggerated.
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With his usual courtesy and willingness to be of assistance he had granted several exclusive interviews on the spot.
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Sitting up in bed, I scanned the article, which the News of the World claimed was an exclusive interview .
personal
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Admissions criteria were rigorous, and included a personal interview as well as a three-month battery of tests.
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Donors undergo a very personal interview before giving blood.
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In regard to supporting evidence, be sure to use every possible source including personal interviews with authorities in the field.
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Information for the follow up study was collected by means of personal interviews , death certificates, and records from hospitals and nursing homes.
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The candidates were required to answer a ten-page questionnaire, followed by a daylong personal interview .
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A mix of personal interviews and observation methods will be employed.
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If you can acquire this information through a personal interview or contact, by all means do so.
recent
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In a recent interview the rather eccentric group claimed to be the disciples of David Icke.
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She was also uncomfortable at times during recent interviews .
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Keller, in a recent interview , asserted that the work had been done, and by the people listed as participants.
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Hamas leaders had said in recent interviews that they would claim victory if turnout was lower than 50 percent.
■ NOUN
job
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Does this sound more your sort of job interview ?
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Q: What was your first job interview like?
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I've never even managed to get through a job interview , even if it's a woman doing the interviewing.
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Christopher Rollinger, a Newbury Park computer programmer, snared a few job interviews during the day.
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More and more companies are now using psychometric tests as back-up to the job interview .
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He was afraid his uncle might say something about the job interview at town hall.
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Jeffries queried blandly, as if he were conducting a job interview .
newspaper
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In a subsequent newspaper interview she had voiced her hurt and anger that Abbado had not then even seen his child.
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She spent most of Thursday doing television, radio and newspaper interviews .
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But he is raising his public profile with newspaper interviews on issues such as black empowerment.
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I had even brought with me to the stadium a copy of a newspaper interview Rich Scobee had given.
phone
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In a phone interview , he also talks about the oddball portfolio mix that has produced such erratic results.
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But a phone interview has a certain immediacy, so you do a phone interview.
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In a phone interview with a dozen reporters, Bradley, 52, says he had several goals in writing the book.
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But a phone interview has a certain immediacy, so you do a phone interview.
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Our initial phone interview occurred on September 20, 1996.
radio
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On the morning I flew overseas to attend a career seminar I heard a radio interview about career change.
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Detective Chief Inspector Kenneth Harris, in a radio interview , announced that another line of enquiry was being pursued.
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Just before his radio interview was over, he showed that he knows much more than running.
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It is quite a good idea to take along samples to a radio interview .
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He's done radio interviews and had his picture in the local papers!
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For a radio interview , I'd do my own homework, and I've always believed in doing it thoroughly.
room
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You will meet the perpetrator in a special interview room .
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Gregg was called into the postgame interview room and asked about his strike zone.
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Such a system can sit comfortably on the table in an interview room .
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Apparently, a few found the area to the interview room .
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However the immediate task of most advice workers is to help the clients in the interview room cope with day-to-day pressing problems.
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Then he collected his belongings from the interview room and joined Rain on the landing.
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He'd been shown to the interview room where Scott sat with a uniformed officer close by the door.
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McDunn's in very early this morning; we're here in the same old interview room .
telephone
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Design Detailed personal interview and physical assessment of physically disabled adults; personal or telephone interview with carers.
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From that, one goes to a telephone interview with the parents.
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Could she do a telephone interview ?
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Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt said in a recent telephone interview .
television
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Cossiga emphasized in a television interview that compromise had been necessary to avoid an early general election.
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Fujisaki said he decided to tighten previous restrictions after learning that Caraway had agreed to a television interview .
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She performed with great natural charm in a television interview and marvelled at all the stretch-limousines she rode in.
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This week, she gave her first live television interview since the fall.
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In a new television interview , he calls Mr Clinton a person without the background or experience for the office.
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His remarks, in a television interview , followed big electoral gains by the anti-immigrant far-right National Front. -Reuter.
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In the pre-Day era, television interviews were almost always respectful, dull, stiff and often insipid.
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But, in a television interview , she appeared to rule out the possibility of a reconciliation.
■ VERB
conduct
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He has a several years of experience of conducting interviews on national identity.
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Update your resume. Conduct an informational interview .
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Barras conducted a number of interviews that bear moving witness to the long shadow cast by absent fathers.
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The children howled as he conducted mock interviews with them.
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Publicly available data will be used rather than, at this stage, conducting interviews with business owners.
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The Tampa Bay Devil Rays conducted their first interview of a managerial candidate last week.
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Over this period I visited the school more than 30 times, chiefly to conduct interviews and attend meetings.
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It also conducted lengthy interviews with survivors from Hitler's bunker and pieced together the dictator's final hours.
give
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He frequently gives interviews , and has got television performances down to a fine art.
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He asked that his nephew, John B.. Hurt, be given an interview .
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He had spent the last few hours being photographed with the wounded and giving endless interviews .
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Another reporter, Paul West, talked the head of the welfare department, Raymond Hilliard, into giving me an interview .
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Around 1985 I was getting so many requests from students, mainly from Blackwomen, to give interviews to inform their dissertations.
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Be sure to give credit for interviews , for this too, should be valued by a grateful researcher.
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This week, she's campaigning for privacy whilst giving interviews to promote her new perfume.
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Fidelity Investments stoutly defended its star manager, saying that he had simply changed his mind after giving the interviews .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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An interview with the actress appears in next week's People magazine.
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Browning told one interviewer that he is considering running for office again next year.
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Can you come in for an interview ?
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During a recent interview Rohr said the renovations will cost $38 million.
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I always get nervous before interviews.
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In his latest TV interview the lead singer talks about his drug problem.
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Kyle went out and bought a new suit for his job interview .
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Ron's going to Tufts University next week for an interview and a tour of the campus.
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She had an interview last week for a job at an Internet company.
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The new Prime Minister gave his first full-length TV interview last night.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At a later interview he was asked for what the Nobel had been awarded.
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Documentary research in the technical literature was undertaken to plan interviews and to identify key areas of technological innovation and technical uncertainty.
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In interviews at other companies, big and small, I began to hear similar stories.
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Lake is not granting interviews as he prepares for his confirmation hearings.
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My panic reduced the interview to waffle.
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She contacted an old friend in the events-promotion field, who in turn set her up for a series of information interviews.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
recently
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I was interviewed recently and I mentioned the long-term effects of being asked about drugs in interviews.
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We recently interviewed 8-year-old actor Andy Lawrence.
■ NOUN
article
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Chen Zhuo is one of the Red Guard leaders interviewed in the article .
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As is customary with appointees facing confirmation hearings, Albright declined to be interviewed for this article .
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Paterniti declined to be interviewed for this article .
book
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The three journalists who interviewed Putin for this book were pleasingly sassy on occasion.
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Peace is the best thing you can wish for parents whose child has died, says a woman interviewed in the book .
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While conducting interviews for this book , I sometimes posed the chameleon riddle to my interviewees.
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How have the students interviewed for this book responded to these issues during their undergraduate years?
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Unlike almost all others interviewed for this book , Allen never once looks at his watch.
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It is noteworthy that none of the students interviewed for this book fits neatly into these or other equally simplistic categories.
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Every parent I interviewed for this book is aware of how society might make family life better.
candidate
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He is already interviewing candidates , whose names he declined to disclose.
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Tiknis darts in and out of the hall, attending to the administrative business of interviewing a candidate for marketing director.
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We also interviewed candidates for her chief of staff.
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Mayor Richard Riordan and other city officials began interviewing the candidates Wednesday.
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Then interview several candidates , asking detailed questions about how they would handle your individual situation.
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But they interviewed only one candidate -- former Tucson city councilman and recently retired state employee Hector Morales.
career
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Through career information interviewing he heard of an overseas company that was about to establish a domestic office.
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They could take a few days off to start career information interviewing .
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Do not forget the benefits you will gain from career information interviewing and job location interviewing.
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Then start career information interviewing in this newly defined field.
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One example of where I have conducted career information interviewing is Colorado.
information
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She admitted failing to report the incident, and withholding information when interviewed by the police.
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Through career information interviewing he heard of an overseas company that was about to establish a domestic office.
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Other people who could provide corroborative or extra information were interviewed .
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They could take a few days off to start career information interviewing .
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Do not forget the benefits you will gain from career information interviewing and job location interviewing.
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It is important that you continue career information interviewing until you are completely relaxed about it.
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Then start career information interviewing in this newly defined field.
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One example of where I have conducted career information interviewing is Colorado.
job
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His job was to interview pilots on return from their missions.
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There is a drawing of the mail-order pantsuit she purchased for job interviews when her children were grown.
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Jobclubs can give guidance on how to apply for jobs , interviewing techniques etc.
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Do not forget the benefits you will gain from career information interviewing and job location interviewing.
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Probably you have already talked with him or her during your job information interviewing .
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I imagined her showing up for a job interview wearing a mix of the clothes from her suitcase.
member
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We were also allowed to observe a juvenile cautioning panel in its decision making, and to interview its members .
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Medical examiners are interviewing family members about any unique characteristics to help identify bodies.
newspaper
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He claims $ 20,000 in damages from Mr Zapolskii and $ 64,000 from another newspaper that interviewed him.
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He did several newspaper interviews Friday, his first extended on-the-record sessions since Clinton announced his appointment in November.
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This remained the leitmotif of a torrent of radio, television and newspaper interviews Heseltine gave in the days following his resignation.
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On the day of the killing in Dunblane, a newspaper reporter was interviewing an 11-year-old at the school.
police
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Voice over Police have interviewed sixteen hundred people - some of them fellow walkers -in their search for the killers.
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Lake killed himself by swallowing cyanide as police interviewed him.
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She said it was a routine enquiry and the police were interviewing everybody who had been at Ken O'Mara's farewell.
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They said I might have to go down to the police station and be interviewed there later in their inquiries.
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The police interviewed their suspect and eliminated him.
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Video-Tape, no voice over CHELTENHAM/Gloucestershire Police interviewed five hundred people on Saturday in the search for witnesses.
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If the police come to interview Frau Morenz, do not impede but let me know.
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Mr Readman said Pringle had to undergo major surgery to his jaw in the middle of June before police could interview him.
radio
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In a radio interview Wednesday, Gov.
sample
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They interviewed this large sample of women about their work histories, current employment and current domestic position.
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In addition permission has been granted to interview a sample of these patients together with their Responsible Medical Officers.
story
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They declined to be interviewed for this story .
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There was another memorable face, that of the attorney NamSoon Hong, seventy-five, whom I interviewed for a story .
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Neither Pike nor his attorney would be interviewed for this story .
telephone
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Ray LaHood, R-Ill., said in a telephone interview Friday.
television
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She is fighting back in the television interview arena, which is the appropriate forum.
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This remained the leitmotif of a torrent of radio, television and newspaper interviews Heseltine gave in the days following his resignation.
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A television crew proceeded to interview me on the touchline, creating more confusion within elements of the crowd close by.
witness
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Police are interviewing a number of witnesses .
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It will feature an interior bathroom and a separate room for privately interviewing witnesses , victims and suspects.
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I have been there usually to interview a witness , but the sights are chilling.
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I am looking at some notes I took one day when I was interviewing witnesses .
woman
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None of the women who were subsequently interviewed mentioned illegal abortion and the final report ignores the topic.
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This time, a man and a woman interviewed me.
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By comparison only 23 out of the 50 women interviewed were able to name Mr Fallon.
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She was the only woman interviewed in the film who spoke without guilt, depression, or regret.
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We conduct extensive consumer research in which a large number of women are interviewed about their preferences.
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Peace is the best thing you can wish for parents whose child has died, says a woman interviewed in the book.
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More than 1000 men and women were interviewed across all age, social and regional divides.
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In a major federal survey, one-third of the men and women interviewed said they would work part-time if possible.
■ VERB
agree
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McMaster agreed to a wide-ranging interview last week.
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I am delighted that you have agreed to be interviewed in part of this sequence.
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In the second and final stages of interviews I therefore concentrated on finding men who would agree to be interviewed.
decline
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The Roman Research Trust declined to be interviewed , but a spokesman denied that it had acted in any way improperly.
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They declined to be interviewed for this story.
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Longwall's management declined to be interviewed .
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As is customary with appointees facing confirmation hearings, Albright declined to be interviewed for this article.
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Publicity-shy Mrs Pattinson, however, declined to be interviewed .
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Terrell later declines to be interviewed by the Union-Tribune.
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Swindon Police declined to be interviewed .
refuse
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The new owner, too, had refused to be interviewed .
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I had every intention of refusing when I interviewed you but I had read your articles.
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Such a defense remains in jeopardy, however, because Kaczynski has refused to be interviewed by two government-hired psychiatrists.
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Brown, however, refused to be interviewed by a reporter.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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All prospective students are interviewed by alumni before a final decision is made.
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At the end of the race the winner was interviewed by NBC news.
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I'll be interviewing two candidates today and three others tomorrow.
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She has interviewed celebrities and political leaders on her radio programme for over 25 years.
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We've interviewed a woman for the job already, but she wasn't very well qualified.
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We interviewed 12 candidates in three days.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As one philosopher interviewed in the film notes, they lack irony.
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Darlington police have been told about the vandalism and yesterday an officer went to interview Miss Golightly.
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I interview Joy Division for the first time in 20 years.
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Medical examiners are interviewing family members about any unique characteristics to help identify bodies.
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Police were interviewing another homeless man who was believed to be in the building at the time of the fire.
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The company also said that Mrs Hampton should have told them about her illness when she was interviewed for the job.
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Those I interviewed said that nearly all the public comment they had heard had been favourable to the televising of the House.