noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
outside
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Beyond them other streets with narrow rear alleyways and outside lavatories stretched all the way to the main road.
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She noticed outside lavatories on the first landing - thank goodness she didn't have to put up with that.
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It has a small kitchen and an outside lavatory , and the bathroom is shared with other people in the house.
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Thanks to Chavez, farm-owners now provide outside lavatories for workers; he also prompted legislation to outlaw the hated short hoe.
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For instance, we will invest £30 million to ensure that within 12 months, no child has to use an outside lavatory .
public
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The railings of the public lavatories on this side of the river were dark-green, heavy and ancient.
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It had a slightly hollow quality, like some one speaking in a cave or a public lavatory .
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Harsh words led to action, and Haston despatched him down the public lavatory stairs.
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The Crown's case was that the men were found by the police in a public lavatory behaving indecently towards each other.
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He rightly said that passenger facilities were absolutely appalling, especially the absence of adequate public lavatories .
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The symbol of the new age is the new Euston, an all-purpose combination of airport lounge and open-plan public lavatory .
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These include public lavatories , dance halls, casinos and, most important of all, development over twenty metres in height.
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Delia Sutherland sat on a bench, the river view blocked by a public lavatory .
■ NOUN
bowl
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Firemen with metal cutters extricated him - and the lavatory bowl - from the train.
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It seemed so feeble and spindly floating there next to the toilet paper in the lavatory bowl .
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I, too, began to fear for my life as I stooped over the lavatory bowl .
paper
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Unknown to the teacher he had taken with him a test tube of the acid to test its reaction with lavatory paper .
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In those days there were no lavatory paper and sanitary towels, so old rags were used.
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It was like smoking a bonfire rolled up in lavatory paper .
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Nkrumah managed to keep up a correspondence by writing on lavatory paper which he wheedled out of his cellmates.
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Ditto lavatory paper , soap, rubbish bags, shampoo etc.
■ VERB
flush
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She talked to Susan about it being flushed away and that Susan could flush the lavatory when she had finished.
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She flushed the lavatory , although she hadn't used it.
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Solar-powered pumps draw water from a lake to flush the lavatories at the Cragside estate in Northumberland.
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I tore my lunch invitation to Carla into little pieces and flushed them down the lavatory .
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Most of the water that we use does not go on drinking, washing or flushing the lavatory .
go
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He had gone to the lavatory and pressed the flush absent-mindedly with the damaged hand.
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Here we crouched, ankle-deep in the wavelets, to wash ourselves or to go to the lavatory .
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I told my parents that I wanted to go to the lavatory and have a wash.
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What about going to the lavatory ?
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The Feldwebel said he was going to the lavatory .
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He could go ashore to go to the lavatory , but had to return immediately to the raft.
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Could be dangerous when you're ten miles high, a mouse going to the lavatory inside your computer.
sit
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Several studies have described this gradual procedure of teaching the child to sit on the lavatory .
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Sometimes Gina sat on the lavatory watching him and making a bad smell or laughing.
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They would sit in the lavatories and brew up tea in a can by holding a candle underneath.
use
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I never find myself, fatigue in the voice, reminding Flaubert to hang up the bathmat or use the lavatory brush.
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At about 11.20 on the night in question he arrived back in his room and wanted to use the lavatory .
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He went to Ken's flat - with Kenneth Horne; neither of whom would be allowed to use the lavatory .
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With the 3-year-old and older a sticker chart is a useful incentive to using the lavatory correctly.
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For instance, we will invest £30 million to ensure that within 12 months, no child has to use an outside lavatory .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Even the lavatory was luxurious, with a marble interior and soft, white hand towels.
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The public lavatories are situated on the other side of the beach.