noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a baked/jacket potato (= cooked in its skin )
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We cooked baked potatoes in the embers of the fire.
a cotton shirt/dress/jacket etc
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Egyptian cotton sheets are very expensive here.
a jacket/trouser/shirt etc pocket
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She slipped the map into her jacket pocket.
bomber jacket
dinner jacket
donkey jacket
dust jacket
flak jacket
jacket potato
life jacket
matinée jacket
oilskin coat/jacket/trousers etc
smoking jacket
sport jacket
sports jacket
undo your jacket/shirt/bra etc
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
black
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So was her brother, Rory, standing on her far side, in a black leather jacket and black jeans.
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However, they did have on black jackets and were bearing guns.
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The man who shot Richard had grey hair and was wearing a black leather jacket , a blue jumper and jeans.
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I always wear black pants, jacket and top with different black shoes for different trouser styles.
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He would wear his black leather jacket at Elinor's funeral.
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They never failed to show up with the black jackets and the sneakers and the Pimp Roll.
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Jimmy, dressed in jeans and a black leather jacket , had arrived on his motorbike.
blue
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There was a young Sikh in a red turban, wearing a blue quilted jacket despite the heat.
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The fitted blue jacket and the small cap with the red button disappeared.
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So had her dark blue jacket , white blouse and black skirt.
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He wears navy blue short pants and a little navy blue jacket with bright gold buttons.
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One was wearing a blue jacket and the other a grey jacket.
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When last seen he was wearing blue jeans, a cream sweatshirt, blue padded jacket and black shoes.
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But Paula, dressed in light grey leggings, sweatshirt and a blue denim jacket , looks as cool as a cucumber.
brown
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Light brown jacket , question mark shirt, without a hat.
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Despite the subtropical climate, Mr Jin wore an imitation sharkskin suit and Mr Jiang a nicely cut brown leather jacket .
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He was wearing a brown leather jacket , black jeans and was carrying in a blue holdall.
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There was no sign of her clothing, a mini-skirt and brown jacket .
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He wore a brown sports jacket with a black roll neck sweater.
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Frank, who virtually lives in his brown jacket , blends in with his dusty study, and has a Shakespearean flourish.
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He was wearing patched jeans and a dark brown jacket tied with string.
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He was wearing a brown jacket , green shirt and blue jeans.
dark
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One carried his dark jacket in an odd kind of bundle under one arm.
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A woman in a dark jacket turned and opened a metal door like those on bank vaults.
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With a smothered exclamation, she rested her face against the smooth material of his dark suit jacket .
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She wore high tops, blue jeans and an oversized dark jacket .
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The taller man was wearing a dark , leather jacket .
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He was wearing a baseball type cap, dark casual jacket and possibly jeans.
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This army tried to outfit all its soldiers. Dark green jacket and trousers, and a hard hat.
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He was wearing a red ski balaclava, a dark cotton jacket and tracksuit bottoms.
denim
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First, he put on his denim jacket .
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Against the wall behind them sat two smiling young men in denim jackets .
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The men in the denim jackets gaped.
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She threw on her denim jacket , and grinning, lied tie door open for Penelope.
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Before bringing the receiver to his face, he rubs the earpiece and mouthpiece against the sleeve of his denim jacket .
flak
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If that happens, Freedman is going to have to get a flak jacket and write another book.
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Strapped into an armor-lined cockpit and trussed up in a flak jacket and helmet, Air Force Capt.
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McVeigh wore a purple shirt with a flak jacket beneath it and brown slacks.
green
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She had short dark hair, wore well-cut trousers, a green country jacket and long, mud-splashed boots.
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Primo notices his dark swollen belly, pushing out between the flaps of a green flak jacket .
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So their green suede jackets with leather collars were quite acceptable.
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He has a green jacket hanging in his closet from a visit to Augusta in 1982.
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But his determination to collect another green jacket shone through.
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A perky lady in a Wimbledon green jacket and carrying a clipboard inspects my credential closely.
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There he was, the legendary Krakonosc had arrived with his green jacket flapping in his wake.
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Dark green jacket and trousers, and a hard hat.
red
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He had fair short hair and wore a red tartan jacket .
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Every Avis executive was required to don the Avis red jacket and work at the company checkout stations regularly.
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He wears a red jacket and trousers and drives a sleigh, just like our Father Christmas.
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I finger the red felt jacket from Saint-Malo.
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Bathsheba's bedroom window was open, and looking out of it was a handsome man, with his red jacket undone.
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I had worn my red tartan plaid jacket , the one I wear only on weekends.
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One had on a black top, the other a white top with a red waistcoat style jacket .
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He was wearing a red bomber jacket and dark trousers.
white
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Her white jacket gave no sign of this.
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He was wearing a white zip-up jacket , blue denim jeans and training shoes.
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The band were dressed in their usual white hats and white jackets .
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It makes a good contrast to all those clean white jackets on normal club nights.
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On top was a white jacket .
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As usual she was stunning, white linen jacket and trousers supremely casual and graceful.
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Wills catalog, a cropped white linen jacket sells for just $ 78.
■ NOUN
bomber
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Wearing jeans and bomber jacket with no make-up, she wasn't trying to be a big deal at all.
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In this crossover category are thigh-length parkas that offer more protection on wind-whipped city streets than the old bomber jackets .
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He was wearing a black zip-up leather bomber jacket .
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He was wearing a black bomber jacket , red T-shirt and faded jeans.
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By the look of him he might well have left a genuine World War Two leather bomber jacket in the bedroom.
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Co-star Steve McFadden, who plays Phil Mitchell, settled for a bomber jacket with blue jeans.
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The man was aged 25-30, wearing a leather bomber jacket .
book
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One of the subjects on which Headline is careful to listen to the trade is book jackets .
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Nature is a kind of poetry for him; an Ecosphere is a book jacket blurb about the real thing.
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Blurb a short description or commentary of a book or author on a book jacket .
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It peers at you in the background of authors' photographs on book jackets .
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Her close friends believe that Mary writes her book reports from book jackets .
combat
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In the kitchen he put on the combat jacket under his anorak.
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My combat jacket , knife, bags, catapult and other equipment I took down to the kitchen with me.
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We drove out of the barracks huddled in our combat jackets , and turned north towards the Alps.
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He's described as slim, with long black hair, and was wearing a green combat jacket and jeans.
dinner
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Their known, nearly identical faces, slid by in a wave of tawdry dinner jackets , sequinned old lace.
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The city suits and ivory silk dinner jackets she gave to Franky.
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Neither Patrick nor John had brought dinner jackets so Sir Bryan decreed that the men would wear lounge suits.
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She was surprised that Colonel Scott Wilson wore a dinner jacket .
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Some of the casino crowd were here, an assortment of dinner jackets and plunging cocktail dresses.
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That relatively small room appeared to be a forest of black dinner jackets , grey hair and cigar smoke.
donkey
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The man was wearing a donkey jacket and overalls.
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The man in the donkey jacket began to walk towards the back door.
dust
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The firm of Longman claims the first dust jacket , on Heath's Keepsake for 1835.
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Just look at the dust jacket .
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They were encyclopaedias or dictionaries with the dust jackets removed.
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Unless, of course, you include the dust jacket .
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The publishers, on the dust jacket , add to this list teachers and students of community health.
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A dust jacket , on the other hand, sets up expectations.
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Warner in particular is interesting in producing two B formats with dust jackets .
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I shall refrain from doing so, though even the dust jacket has chosen to ignore that discretion.
leather
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She glanced up briefly as David Ryker passed her, his leather jacket undone.
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The temperature was more than bearable, and in fact in his leather jacket he was far too warm.
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I was more casually dressed in corduroys and a black leather jacket .
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He is wearing an old leather jacket , black jeans, midnight blue sweatshirt.
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It was when Lizzy was sipping her cider that she realised what the man with the leather jacket was doing.
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Primo unzips his bag, removes his leather jacket , reaches into the pocket and takes out his keys.
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So was her brother, Rory, standing on her far side, in a black leather jacket and black jeans.
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She looked pretty in that short leather jacket she wore with the long colorful silk scarf.
life
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School was very important, a life jacket in chaos.
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I made them wear sneakers, strapped them tightly into a pair of life jackets and turned them loose.
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But we were all kitted out in life jackets .
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A pair of life jackets and survival suits were stashed beneath the bottom bunk.
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This was the only day that Kaz felt life jackets wouldn't be necessary.
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Despite my life jacket , I was pinned under water by the down-surging river hydraulic.
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Boyant Kapok fibres used to stuff the life jackets had to be removed and teased open again.
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The captain of the Iliana ordered his men into life jackets .
linen
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Carlo is wearing a large, double-breasted linen jacket and non-matching royal blue linen trousers over a slate-grey T-shirt and stone shirt.
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In the locker room, she takes off her beige linen jacket and talks strategy.
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Both were wearing grey flannel trousers and pale beige or fawn linen jackets .
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Wills catalog, a cropped white linen jacket sells for just $ 78.
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As usual she was stunning, white linen jacket and trousers supremely casual and graceful.
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She sighed as she folded Elise's cream linen jacket over her arm before making her way along the compartment.
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He returned this now, putting the bundle of notes in the inside pocket of the creased, off-white linen jacket .
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He pulled the small plastic box free and laid it on top of the crate, fumbling in his jacket pocket for something.
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Tom folded the letter and stuck it into his jacket pocket .
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I put my hand into my jacket pocket , felt for the pack, and pulled one out.
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He walked down to the lion house, hands deep in his jacket pockets .
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He put his right hand in his jacket pocket and produced a bulky envelope.
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From his jacket pocket he took a small vanity mirror and adjusted his hair.
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I watched as he put the money in his jacket pocket .
potato
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Dobson said that 96 % of consumers used low fat cream with salad and 45 % with jacket potatoes .
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If you want potatoes with your meal, cook them more often as boiled or jacket potatoes rather than as chips.
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Serve with a jacket potato and a green salad.
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Cold, cooked jacket potato plus a tub of salad, sandwich filling, or dip.
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Open the jacket potatoes lengthways and pile the chilli beans on top.
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Two jacket potatoes later - back to it.
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The oven door was open, and there were four jacket potatoes on the second shelf.
safari
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In his Roos-Atkins collapsible hat and safari jacket , he might have stepped from the pages of Field and Stream.
suit
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His dark hair had been trimmed and lay tidily against the high collar of the grey, swallow-tailed suit jacket .
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With a smothered exclamation, she rested her face against the smooth material of his dark suit jacket .
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Manion unbuttoned his suit jacket and moved out from the podium area.
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Him: suit jacket , £680; striped shirt, £190.
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He was ready, right down to the Cal button in his suit jacket .
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Then his fingers fumbled to unfasten the small buttons of her suit jacket .
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The bishop never took off his suit jacket or removed the glittering cuff links engraved with his episcopal shield.
tweed
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As a result, the traditional party outfit of flamboyant cravat and tweed jacket has been replaced by the ninety-nine-pound wool suit.
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Charles Gullans always wore some sort of tweed jacket and a huge pair of saddle oxfords.
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She could still feel, from fingertip to elbow, the textures of cotton shirt, silk tie and tweed jacket .
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He wore a tweed jacket over a dark blue turtle-necked jersey and he had a robust mod mustache.
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For Diana, a heavy tweed jacket for draughty Balmoral would be a snip at £9.95.
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He was still in his riding clothes, well-cut jodhpurs and an old tweed jacket .
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The familiar tweed jackets appeared in fresh fruit pastel shades enlivened with a spattering of matched sequins.
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She smelt the newness of his clothes, his tweed jacket , the soft shirt, the corduroys.
■ VERB
grab
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Then I grabbed my jacket and followed him.
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Well, Price grabbed me by the jacket , right above the elbow, and asked me what my name was.
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Mitti grabbed her jacket and the two of them left.
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He fled to the peg and grabbed his jacket and was putting it on when she got up and came toward him.
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Pushing himself from the wall he grabbed Tommy's jacket and pulled him along the road.
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He grabbed his jacket and briefcase and flung open the car door.
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The man who had agreed with Clive grabbed Nina's jacket collar and tried to rip down her back.
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I grabbed a jacket , my handbag, and my keys.
pick
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Ludens hastened to pick up the jacket and helped Marcus into it.
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I thought I might pick up a jacket .
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He picked up his jacket and went down to the basement.
pull
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With reluctance she pulled on a jacket and set out for the Rectory.
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I tell myself, as I race down the steps, pulling on my jacket .
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Because the room was so cold he had pulled on his bomber jacket over his father's shirt.
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As he gets up from the table, he pulls on a Stanford-emblazoned jacket he bought on his visit there.
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He pulled off his jacket and folded it up beside him.
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He pulled on his jacket , smiling.
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I pull my battledress jacket over my head in a forlorn attempt to escape from the tiny tormentors; sleep is impossible.
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She pulled her leather flying jacket tighter around her.
put
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He put the jacket around his wife and daughter Eva on the lifeboat.
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In the kitchen he put on the combat jacket under his anorak.
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I put on my jacket and ran out of the house.
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But at any rate I can finally dust my hands and put my jacket on with a clear conscience.
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Joe and Rex still wore shorts in the daytime but now they put on warm jackets .
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Kalchu put on his jacket and hurried down the path towards the bridge.
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They simply told my father to hurry up and put his jacket on.
reach
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Just as the pause edges towards the ridiculous he reaches into his jacket for this packet of cheroots.
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Ezra reached into his jacket and pulled out his cigarettes.
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Hitch reached inside his jacket and touched the butt of the Beretta he'd taken from Scott.
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Farrell reached inside his jacket , his fingers touching the butt of the.45 in his shoulder holster.
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Dowd reached inside his jacket and pulled out a thick brown envelope.
remove
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He smiled slowly and held her prisoner with his eyes while he removed his jacket with an almost leisurely air.
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Primo unzips his bag, removes his leather jacket , reaches into the pocket and takes out his keys.
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He removed his jacket , revealing a dashing red woollen waistcoat, rolled up his sleeves and left the room.
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He would remove his jacket , roll up his sleeves, and play Ping-Pong with the kids.
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In the heat of the kitchen she had removed her costume jacket and hung it over the back of a nearby chair.
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He removed his jacket , chuckling to himself.
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Pope had already removed his jacket and begun to roll back his sleeve.
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Joshua removed his jacket , lay on the bed, turned on the telly but cut the sound.
shrug
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He shrugged out of his jacket and her hands went to his cotton shirt, fumbling in their haste to undo the buttons.
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She shrugged softly; her jacket crackled.
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She walked into the flat, and shrugged wearily out of her jacket , hanging it up in the closet.
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Accompanied by familiar butterflies, Fabia shrugged into a jacket and left her room.
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He shrugs off the jacket of his suit and drapes it over the back of a chair.
slip
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She slipped the jacket from her shoulders and revealed a slender figure encased in a black woollen suit.
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Refolding the map neatly, she slipped it into her jacket pocket.
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Scott pulled the car over to the kerb, his right hand slipping inside his jacket .
take
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Keith took a pull and I took off my jacket and loosened the laces in my shoes.
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Pat took off her jacket and hunched forward.
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Having taken off their jackets and rolled up their trouser bottoms, the fathers worked barefoot in shirt sleeves.
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The bishop never took off his suit jacket or removed the glittering cuff links engraved with his episcopal shield.
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Why don't you take off your jacket ?
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I took off my jacket , laid it on the bed, walked to the bucket, and retched.
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By then the officials had taken off their uniform jackets , and were displaying spotless shirts and dark ties.
undo
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Marcus then undid Patrick's pyjama jacket and started to try to pull it off, then decided not to.
wear
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It entails a little body contact so do not choose some one who is too uptight and of course they must be wearing a jacket .
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Mr Alsop generally wore a velvet smoking jacket to dinner; the young men wore black tie.
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Julia, wearing a black leather jacket and faded jeans, hid her face as she scurried through Heathrow.
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Frank, the eldest son, is twelve, old enough to wear a jacket and tie.
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He was wearing a white zip-up jacket , blue denim jeans and training shoes.
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Unlike the other mourners, they were wearing Earnhardt jackets and hats.
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The man who shot Richard had grey hair and was wearing a black leather jacket , a blue jumper and jeans.
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They were both wearing light-colored leather jackets and bell-bottom pants.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
safari suit/jacket
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Amin was wearing an electric-blue safari suit with matching sombrero.
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In his Roos-Atkins collapsible hat and safari jacket, he might have stepped from the pages of Field and Stream.
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She wore a safari suit and khaki hat perched on her slipping load of hair.
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Tea is brought by a small furtive man in a grey safari suit.
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The three cameramen, smiling at the camera for their picture, are wearing identical green safari suits.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a jacket and tie
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a denim jacket
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As a result, the traditional party outfit of flamboyant cravat and tweed jacket has been replaced by the ninety-nine-pound wool suit.
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Having taken off their jackets and rolled up their trouser bottoms, the fathers worked barefoot in shirt sleeves.
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He found himself tending toward a jacket and tie.
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I told the bartender it was a jacket , most definitely.
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No, at a ceremony at the cenotaph he wore the wrong jacket !
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She had short dark hair, wore well-cut trousers, a green country jacket and long, mud-splashed boots.
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This will go through a down jacket .