I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a love letter
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The book had a copy of a love letter from King Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn.
a love poem
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Shakespeare's beautiful love poems
a love song
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He is releasing an album of love songs for Valentine’s Day.
a love story
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‘Romeo and Juliet’ is a classic love story.
an act of kindness/love
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We were grateful for her act of kindness.
fallen in love
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I think that I’ve fallen in love with Angela.
free love
like/love/enjoy nothing better (than)
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She likes nothing better than a nice long walk along the beach.
love affair
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America’s love affair with the automobile
love and kisses (= used at the end of a letter )
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See you soon. Lots of love and kisses from Anna.
love bite
love child
love interest
love letter
love life
love nest
love rat
love seat
loved...dearly
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James loved her dearly .
love/enjoy/relish a challenge
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Children enjoy a challenge so the work should not be too easy.
madly in love
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She fell madly in love with him.
much loved/admired/discussed etc
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The money will buy much needed books for the school.
profess...love
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He finally made up his mind to profess his love for her.
puppy love
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a bad case of puppy love
return sb’s love/feelings (= love someone who loves you )
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Sadly, she could never return his love.
romantic love
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real old-fashioned romantic love
true love
tug of love
undying love/devotion/support etc
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They declared their undying love for each other.
would like/love/prefer
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Yes, please, I’d love a coffee.
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My parents would like to meet you.
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Claudia would have liked to refuse wanted to refuse , but she didn’t dare.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
always
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How silly I was to trust that you would always love me!
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Jack always loved them in his way.
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Jack had always loved Polly's legs, but then he had always loved everything about Polly.
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It seemed I could argue and defend handily, and I always loved debating.
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She had always loved to sew, and when she had started to design in earnest wedding dresses had proved irresistible.
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I had always loved walking so it seemed the obvious thing to do.
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He had a good singing voice, and women always loved him.
dearly
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Also, I should dearly love to rest.
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At this point Katz would dearly love a little navigational help from above.
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But what I'd dearly love to know is what on earth made him so suspicious of me?
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He thinks this is his last go-round for basketball, a sport he dearly loves .
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I wish that Merseyside, which I love dearly , would follow the example of Dublin.
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Although she would dearly love to know if it was the norm for women to follow him home!
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I would dearly love to add a Catfish as a tank companion.
really
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I would really love to have long hair but it never seems to grow at the back, only at the fringe!
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But I really love what I do.
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That one of them doesn't really love the other; that they love one another a certain amount but not enough?
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Had Mattie ever really loved anyone but herself?
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And apparently she had really loved Magnus, and competed with Stella in caring for him.
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Maybe with the young woman from your hometown, the one you really love .
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I used to love concocting meals ... really love it.
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Edusha also admitted that she had never really loved Edek.
still
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He's been to watch quite a few games here since the day he left and that shows he still loves the place.
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When he became our congressman, people still loved him.
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Or are they still loved , even though more grown up?
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She still loves Eric, and Eric, red jump suit and all, is smart enough to know it.
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Was it possible to be unfaithful yet still love your wife?
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Yet many who look pained at even the thought of the spicy heat of a chili pepper still love Caesar salad.
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I even believe she still loves Gary.
■ NOUN
child
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Probably his children loved him and perhaps his neighbours liked him too.
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Be assured, if that child loved his parents at all, that an engram exists here.
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McCarthy was a lucky child , privileged and loved by beautiful parents.
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By and large, children love to be read to.
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Hurtwood School is going very well; the children love it.
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That your children love you back is nearly as miraculous as their birth.
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Look at how much the children loved seeing that frozen carbon dioxide.
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The basic responsibility of parents is not to give our children love .
man
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Chrissie sat down on the bare floorboards, and watched the haggard features of the man she loved .
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But men everywhere love it too.
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She could see no sign of the man she loved .
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She had done what she could for her son, for now, and she was with the man she loved .
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And anyway, Daisy married the man she loved .
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He was an academic who respected women, a scholar who appreciated music, and a man who had loved his father.
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He had been everything she had ever imagined the man she loved would be.
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If she had seen the man I loved she would have thought him a figure of fantasy too.
parent
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But in general, parents love their daughters, and are very concerned about them and their welfare.
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The parent who loves reading poetry aloud should by all means read poetry.
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Of course, there are those young people whom only a parent could love .
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To my parents for their loving concern.
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We must be corrective like a parent who yet loves the child he has chastised.
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I know my parents love me.
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An alleged serial killer whose parents loved him?
people
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These country people did not love bishops, the paraphernalia of church hierarchy.
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All four people who loved it have been informed in person.
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But she had only ever pulled the stops out for people she loved and respected.
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Both here and back in the capital city he would be surrounded by family and people who loved him.
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On the other hand there were many people who loved him dearly.
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Most people would love to be in the slump he's in right now.
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Some people love the atmosphere of refuges; others, myself included, would rather give them a miss.
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George would have loved it Funny how people love to be assessor, haw!
wife
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Marry me, be my wife , and love me.
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My wife loves all that weird shit, so if I can support a friend, might as well support a friend.
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A wife loved her husband very dearly.
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He loved his wife and he loved her child.
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My wife will love me again.
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I love her as wives love their husbands, as friends who have taken each other for life.
woman
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She was Tim's first choice when he set out to find the perfect engagement ring for the woman he loved .
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Some women love dressmaking or knitting.
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The difference, this time, was that the woman he loved did not leave him.
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I mean, of course, the mid-life change that's making the woman you love so difficult.
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I had a job I liked and a woman I loved .
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Everyone paints devotion like an artist painted all his portraits of women , after the appearance of the women he loved .
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He was one of those boys who was not only attracted to young women but who loved them as well.
■ VERB
know
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I know you loved Mark so; he was your only family.
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I wanted her to know that I loved her.
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You know how I loved your sister, and made her die.
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I know that I love him.
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I don't know anyone who was loved as she was.
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I know her family loved her.
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She loved him so desperately and she knew he loved her, but maybe not enough.
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The publishers knew that kids love codes that help them keep their marvelous secrets.
learn
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And from now on it will be mine, she thought, and I shall learn to love it as he does.
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A contemporary story of mystery and romantic suspense of a woman who returns home to die and ends up learning to love .
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He once joked that the New Labour project would not be complete until the party learned to love Peter.
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They will adapt to and learn to love change.
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Shouldn't we learn to love ourselves the way we are?
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Day by day, I learned to understand and love the nuns.
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He does love her and she will learn to love him.
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Our personalities are made up as well by the totality of our life experiences, what we learn and whom we love .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a labour of love
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But for Mavis Hindmarsh and her team of volunteers furniture removal is a labour of love.
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But then it was a labour of love.
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Compiling such a list was a labour of love - too pleasurable an activity to pursue in office hours.
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David Croft and Jimmy Perry's sitcom was a labour of love.
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For Joan it has been a labour of love and provides an amusing and detailed insight into medicine in the town.
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It is a labour of love by Professor A. G. Toth and primarily for specialists.
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Male speaker It's a labour of love looking after Dinmore.
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Mervyn Gowell was a fitter at the plant and says that working on the Meteor was a labour of love.
all's fair in love and war
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Ah, come on; all's fair in love and war, Cameron.
be/fall head over heels in love
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It wasn't just the usual liaison: the two of them fell head over heels in love.
be/fall hopelessly in love (with sb)
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And, unknown to her father, I fell hopelessly in love with her.
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I was too afraid of falling hopelessly in love with this protégé of Yukio Mishima, whose marvellous homoerotic poems I translated.
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James Pawsey, the Tory member for Rugby, also appeared to be hopelessly in love.
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She was falling hopelessly in love with the man.
for the love of Mike
human interest/love interest
love/enjoy/hate etc every minute (of sth)
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And even when the tires went flat or the road grew rough, we loved every minute of the journey.
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And he thoroughly enjoyed every minute of it.
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And I give it all I got and enjoy every minute of it.
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But we were careless and happy and full of fun, and enjoyed every minute of the day.
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He went down early each morning and jumped up and down in the briny, enjoying every minute of it.
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I got a goal and enjoyed every minute of it.
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I know we all enjoyed every minute of the three hectic months.
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The first mile was pure pain and I hated every minute of it.
my dear/darling/love etc
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Anabelle, my dear, you must try some.
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Hence my love for film and my desire to make films as a director and... actor.
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Oh, and give this bottle of Krug with my love to Charity when you see her.
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The measure of my outrage and anger was the measure of my love for you.
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Then, my dear Summerlee, it is that most wonderful of devices: a perpetual motion machine!
peace-loving/fun-loving/home-loving etc
tender loving care
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Mom gave us kids a lot of tender loving care.
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Right now I just need some tender loving care.
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At some level they still cling to the idea that tender loving care is the only factor in raising kids.
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Hospitals needed some one to give tender loving care to chil-dren, social agencies had various similar needs, and so on.
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It is the routine and tender loving care of the staff that create the best atmosphere.
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Lucky patients get superb nursing care, infused with professionalism and tender loving care.
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Mandy had plied her with tender loving care until the tears had come.
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The Backup New yachts suffer from teething problems, and older yachts need lots of tender loving care.
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Voice over Millie will need tender loving care and a lot of medical treatment before going home.
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With glass and tender loving care it can be done.
tough love
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In the world of rehabilitating addicts, this is known as showing your child tough love.
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It was just a good, tough love story, and that was one of the parts that made it tough.
what's not to like/love?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a much-loved author
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Ben loves swimming, playing tennis, those kinds of thing.
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Cassie works in the theatre, and she really loves it.
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He loved his stepdaughter as if she were his own child.
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He stroked her hair and murmured, "I love you."
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I love you, Betty.
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I really believed that my parents didn't love me.
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It's incredible how much she loves those two kids.
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She loved to sit in the park and feed the ducks.
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Tom was the only man she had ever loved.
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We still love each other very much.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And even crazier to have told him that she loved him.
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Because he just loves to write.
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I love to hear applause between movements.
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I love you so much now, it hurts!
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It is a heady, exhilarating feeling, and I love it.
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Just relax and let me love you.
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You needn't love boxing-or even care for it-to appreciate Toole's highly accomplished debut.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
great
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He wanted a great love and thought he had found her, for life, when he was eighteen.
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But her great love for Jason made the loss of her family and her country seem to her a little thing.
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And this great love makes you both ruthless.
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For instance, one of his great loves was a woman whom he knew only by voice.
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She writes a little poetry and prose, and indulges her great love of cooking, at which she excels.
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She eventually became his wife, and his one great love .
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He wasn't the great love of my life.
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A lion, if you raise a lion, will give you great love and affection.
lost
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Keifer Sutherland plays the boyfriend, and after three years he's still obsessed with the search for his lost love .
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Shelley felt the familiar pang of heartache and lost love as their eyes met.
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And oh Fergus, my dear, lost love , am I doing you so much harm?
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It had proved quite an exciting substitute for lost love , and a pacifier in that time of grave trouble.
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Assuming the form of the lost love , the spirit comes in a dream to sexually possess the abandoned one.
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But all the time he himself was carrying his own torch for a lost love .
romantic
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The reason for this fall is the fact that romantic love can not be sustained without an underlying friendship.
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There is also the fact that in our culture romantic love eludes both rational analysis and individual control.
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To us the flood of romantic love should be searched for and found before marriage.
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Then again, perhaps rough, tough Spacefleet troopers manifested peculiarly understated displays of romantic love .
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In addition to romantic love , the major tie that is still operative between male and female is the project of reproduction.
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To see them is to believe in love , real old-fashioned romantic love.
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Kissing became the gesture of romantic love , and future actors took up the torch.
true
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Unhappily-married Cape Town journalist Toni Balser finds true love against a backdrop of gruesome township violence.
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Roth, of course, remains eternally wedded to his one true love , his writing.
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William Yes-she might think you don't have true love on your mind.
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And it is only after this-after finding and showing your true being-that love can be accepted and believed in.
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Will Mark find true love with Julie?
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This is true even about love .
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Each fevered quest for a true love left me more adrift than ever.
■ NOUN
affair
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Unlike the Prince, she had had no love affairs when their friendship began at the beginning of that year.
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She had already had several tragic love affairs .
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Mankind's love affair with the apple goes back a long way.
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A love affair By the 1960s, when my own association with the hotel began, the Algonquin was all legend.
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But it had obvious difficulties for many students who found they could not manage both love affairs and study.
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Tempesta, Lockwood and their classmates who already have licenses can continue their love affair with driving.
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Others say Honda is keen to rekindle its old love affair .
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Was it possible that we were at the start of a love affair ?
interest
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They therefore devised no conventional love interest .
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We only have one woman, so the love interest is only going to be me, Kevin or Michael Palin.
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But Crowe's Maximus is no Mark Antony; there is no destructive love interest in the picture.
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I had the main love interest in my pictures stepping out to keep ahead of me.
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Consider, for example, the myriad adventure stories, most of which contain a definite love interest .
letter
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In the glove compartment of his car was another love letter , this time written by her husband.
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She read her love letters alone in the woods.
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You wrote him all those love letters , and then I suppose you got tired of it, and stopped!
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I must have been about fifteen when I received my first love letter .
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Leonardo forges a love letter from Emilia, and bribes a servant to deliver it to Eustathius along with Emilia's stolen glove.
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I read his crowded arms and think of tattooed gravestones - love letters lost in all the long grass.
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It was a love letter , it was what she wanted and would she have the nerve to deliver it?
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The bundles of love letters testify to that.
life
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Clearly, you'd rather she stay out of your love life and she's not getting the hint.
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Their marriage may be over, but interest remains intense over the love lives of Diana and Charles.
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His home, law firm and love life were all sacrificed to the case which was brought on a contingency fee basis.
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Besides, your readers' behavior is as unpredictable as their eating habits or love lives .
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Mars and Venus this weekend means your love life will start to sparkle.
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The subtext is clear: Colgate is good for your breath, teeth -- and love life .
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Arid as I became more relaxed our love life returned to how it was before the children came along.
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I mean, I was talking about the future of my love life .
scene
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I had never had to do love scenes and neither had Kylie.
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But I myself took out an early love scene that showed the two men in bed together.
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For a while it was enough to heckle the love scenes and cackle at disasters.
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Readers will not accept just a frivolous love scene thrown in.
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Not even the love scenes between Guillaume Depardieu and Anne Brochet can lift the deeply entrenched gloom.
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There were complaints from Lazenby that Diana Rigg was eating garlic before their big love scene .
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The love scenes between Fawcett and Boothe are straight out of a Harlequin novel, all romance and yearning and aching passion.
song
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She began to sing the famous love song .
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But mainly I sing love songs .
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A real love song is infinitely more appropriate for Christmas than a trashy song cooked up as a commercial gimmick.
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Nicole Simpson sent him cookies, letters and tapes filled with love songs , he said.
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There's only so many love songs you can write.
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Singing love songs to Mr Death, they smashed his head.
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But these are competent love songs , carried on the strength of the 23-year-old's powerful and seductive vocals.
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Would-be lovebirds are unable to hear the love songs sung by other birds.
story
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A devastating, tragic love story about mature people.
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The narrative line wavers, its constant ebb and flow in political affairs and love story creating a sense of drift.
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As if in a corny love story , they found themselves in each other's arms.
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Even by the industry's fickle standards, it was one of the shortest corporate love stories ever told.
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There is suffering and tragedy in this quirky love story as Toshi learns the truth of his parents' past.
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This novel is a love story .
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Romances are love stories , and they do take the subject of love and give it a fictional treatment.
■ VERB
fall
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Well, she would fall out of love with him.
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Will she fall in love with Rhett Butler instead?
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I am the same woman you fell in love with then, the very same.
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Homesickness was what happened when you went to bed with some one and then fell in love .
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She didn't know anything about falling in love , let alone falling in love on a budget, as Nelson put it.
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She was still radiantly beautiful even though Perseus by now was full grown, and Polydectes fell in love with her.
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Hollywood stars were safe to fall in love with, dead or a million dollars away.
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Some boys fall in love with other boys.
lose
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Some people, and you may be one, slowly and partially pick up their lives after losing their love .
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She was not just a lost love , or a found love either.
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The centre court crowd seemed to have lost their love for Venus.
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Other parents fear that they may displease, and therefore lose the love of, their children if they are too strict.
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To lose love through death is hard but understandable; to lose love and not understand why is intolerable.
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She never lost her love of the West, and I admire that.
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To lose love through death is hard but understandable; to lose love and not understand why is intolerable.
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I lost the love of acting and singing.
make
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She also wanted him to undress her and make wild passionate love .
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He discovered this every time he wanted to make love to her.
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It sickened her that she could have made love with Tom and be able to remember nothing of it.
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That the man she had just made love to was stupider...
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She only knew that they had made love at all by the sticky wetness in between her thighs and on the bedsheet.
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They never communicated, they never made love .
send
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Of course, she sent her love to Jean.
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Users can send as many love missives as they like, one at a time.
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So listen to it, send it your love - then use a positive affirmation.
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A giant Styrofoam heart to send to your true love , from Better Than a Letter, $ 4. 50.
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Rachaela had not asked Ruth if she wished to send Emma her love .
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He asks me to send you his love .
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I am fine and your family is in good health and send their love .
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Grandparents, schoolfriends and neighbours all tried to write to the children, to send messages of love and support.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a labour of love
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But for Mavis Hindmarsh and her team of volunteers furniture removal is a labour of love.
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But then it was a labour of love.
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Compiling such a list was a labour of love - too pleasurable an activity to pursue in office hours.
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David Croft and Jimmy Perry's sitcom was a labour of love.
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For Joan it has been a labour of love and provides an amusing and detailed insight into medicine in the town.
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It is a labour of love by Professor A. G. Toth and primarily for specialists.
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Male speaker It's a labour of love looking after Dinmore.
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Mervyn Gowell was a fitter at the plant and says that working on the Meteor was a labour of love.
all's fair in love and war
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Ah, come on; all's fair in love and war, Cameron.
be/fall head over heels in love
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It wasn't just the usual liaison: the two of them fell head over heels in love.
be/fall hopelessly in love (with sb)
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And, unknown to her father, I fell hopelessly in love with her.
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I was too afraid of falling hopelessly in love with this protégé of Yukio Mishima, whose marvellous homoerotic poems I translated.
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James Pawsey, the Tory member for Rugby, also appeared to be hopelessly in love.
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She was falling hopelessly in love with the man.
for the love of Mike
human interest/love interest
love/enjoy/hate etc every minute (of sth)
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And even when the tires went flat or the road grew rough, we loved every minute of the journey.
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And he thoroughly enjoyed every minute of it.
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And I give it all I got and enjoy every minute of it.
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But we were careless and happy and full of fun, and enjoyed every minute of the day.
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He went down early each morning and jumped up and down in the briny, enjoying every minute of it.
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I got a goal and enjoyed every minute of it.
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I know we all enjoyed every minute of the three hectic months.
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The first mile was pure pain and I hated every minute of it.
my dear/darling/love etc
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Anabelle, my dear, you must try some.
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Hence my love for film and my desire to make films as a director and... actor.
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Oh, and give this bottle of Krug with my love to Charity when you see her.
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The measure of my outrage and anger was the measure of my love for you.
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Then, my dear Summerlee, it is that most wonderful of devices: a perpetual motion machine!
peace-loving/fun-loving/home-loving etc
send your love/regards/best wishes etc
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He sends his best wishes to everybody at home.
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Mr Mason sends his best wishes for the success of the event.
tender loving care
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Mom gave us kids a lot of tender loving care.
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Right now I just need some tender loving care.
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At some level they still cling to the idea that tender loving care is the only factor in raising kids.
▪
Hospitals needed some one to give tender loving care to chil-dren, social agencies had various similar needs, and so on.
▪
It is the routine and tender loving care of the staff that create the best atmosphere.
▪
Lucky patients get superb nursing care, infused with professionalism and tender loving care.
▪
Mandy had plied her with tender loving care until the tears had come.
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The Backup New yachts suffer from teething problems, and older yachts need lots of tender loving care.
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Voice over Millie will need tender loving care and a lot of medical treatment before going home.
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With glass and tender loving care it can be done.
tough love
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In the world of rehabilitating addicts, this is known as showing your child tough love.
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It was just a good, tough love story, and that was one of the parts that made it tough.
what's not to like/love?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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All children need love , attention, and encouragement.
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Jack was her first love .
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She nourishes a secret, unrequited love for Harry.
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She was never able to express her love for Henry.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And though they regularly clashed, they were undoubtedly in love .
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Finally, it never hurts to wear our own love of reading on our sleeve.
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I used to read books about love .
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Only his tears spoke of brotherly love .
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The authoritative, dedicated, and benign conductor was Williams Llewellyn, whose knowledge and love for the score was obvious.