noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a car/lorry/bicycle etc tyre
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They sell and fit car tyres.
long-distance lorry driver
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
articulated
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We had scarcely survived a convoy of high articulated lorries to reach the safety of a country lane.
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You could have driven an articulated lorry up the leg.
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The modern articulated lorry was born at Wolverton Works.
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His car was involved in in collision with an articulated lorry .
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I cut up articulated lorries , rashly overtake, and dash through traffic lights when they're more red than amber.
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He got run over by an articulated lorry .
big
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Now big lorries went past every five minutes, carrying things for the new buildings.
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Another big lorry went past the window.
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Gullible hadn't been driving a great big lorry around the place and putting down rat poison.
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They stopped at the Zebra Crossing and Pete watched the big lorries and buses and cars roar past.
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The biggest lorries will be exempt from much of the duty they now pay.
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Those of some species grew as big as lorry wheels.
heavy
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They would be at risk from the vastly increased number of cars and heavy lorries expected to use the new tunnel.
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Will he promise to resist all attempts to increase the maximum permitted weights of heavy lorries ?
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Other concerns include the threat of pollution, noise disturbance, danger from heavy lorries and the loss of environmental amenities.
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In death, the pathologist would report, he resembled somebody who had been hit full-on by a heavy lorry .
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Read in studio Heavy lorries trying to avoid higher tolls on the Severn Bridge are causing severe traffic problems on minor roads.
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Its only scourge - heavy lorries - rumbling through its streets, polluting the environment and damaging historic buildings.
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But trains still racket by frequently with ear-splitting effect. Heavy lorries thunder along motorways to the south.
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Council workmen have had to tidy footpaths and repair roads and curbs, partly in response to the number of heavy lorries passing through.
huge
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Hurtling towards him in the swirling fog was a huge lorry powerless to stop on the icy carriageway.
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The huge lorry is forced to mount the kerb to avoid a collision with the oncoming car.
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From then on, it was working around the clock with tons of gear filling 3 huge lorries .
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At the back of a huge lorry , free samples of Bahlsen biscuits are being dispensed.
■ NOUN
driver
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Romford's lorry driver negligently reversed his company's vehicle into another employee, in fact, his father.
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And lorry drivers are right behind them, adding their names to a petition.
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The public did not blame Opec, the oil companies, the lorry drivers , or Uncle Tom Cobbleigh...
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Two defendants were lorry drivers for a soft drinks company.
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After the attack another lorry driver saw a man of the same height scrambling away from the river bank.
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Three weeks later she had. gone off with a long-distance lorry driver .
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A lorry driver heard her screams and rushed to her aid.
load
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Two full lorry loads of milk go into some of the bigger supermarkets every day.
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Any error and it could result in lorry loads of the wrong colour.
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Just as the train pulled out of the station a lorry load of soldiers drove in like maniacs.
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Customs Offficers found the drugs hidden in a lorry load of pot plants at Sheerness Docks in January last year.
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Powys Transport delivered two lorry loads of materials to the show, which opens tomorrow.
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Today, this lorry load of spent nuclear rods represents history in the making again.
■ VERB
carry
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What could a lorry be carrying that its load was so valuable to a thief as to make Hatton's a feasible reward?
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As the bus was waiting in Bondgate a lorry carrying scaffolding reversed into the back of the bus.
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Apparently a lorry carrying a rubbish skip was hi-jacked in nearby Pomeroy several hours ago and the driver held at gunpoint.
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Four army lorries , each carrying one condemned man, drove round the running track.
drive
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E.g. A lorry driver may sustain an injury which will prevent him from ever driving a lorry again.
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You could have driven an articulated lorry up the leg.
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Gullible hadn't been driving a great big lorry around the place and putting down rat poison.
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They drove a lorry across farm fields and loaded it up from the home of the Marquess of Cholmondeley yesterday.
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He was driving a lorry and accelerated away, escaping with minor injuries.
fall
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They were telephone poles that had fallen from a lorry , blocking both westbound lanes of the motorway and smashing a car.
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I guess they may have fallen off a lorry ?
hit
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It had been hit by a passing lorry , and they joked that it would never fly again.
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The passenger was killed when the defendant's car hit an unlit lorry .
stop
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Debbie, 30, was asleep upstairs in her £130,000 thatched home as Gary Harmes tried to stop his lorry .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A lorry driver signalled to her to cross the road.
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But there was further drama when the crane's brakes failed and it slid into the cab of the lorry .
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Charges of government mismanagement were compounded by reports of corruption among food wholesalers, lorry owners and trawlermen.
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Heavier traffic flows caused by lorries on bridges and roads also added to the ministry's problems.
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In April 1986 our 29-year-old son met a lorry coming from the opposite direction with a very heavy utility trailer in tow.
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It's expected as many as 150,000 lorries will use the terminal every year.
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On the upward curve over the first down the lorry was forced to a crawl.
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They would be at risk from the vastly increased number of cars and heavy lorries expected to use the new tunnel.