noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
house martin
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
house
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The technical skill of the house martin enables it to construct gravity-defying mud nests beneath the eaves of houses.
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Another ingenious construction technique is demonstrated by the house martin .
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In common with other members of the swallow family, house martins build elaborate mud nests precariously slung beneath the eaves of a house.
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Overhead, swallows and house martins hawked.
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It has, therefore, through natural selection, become part of the behavioural repertoire of the house martins .
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Up above the house martins are gathering in a fidgety flock.
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We stood on the cliff top to welcome them, swallows and house martins , meadow pipits and skylarks.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Another ingenious construction technique is demonstrated by the house martin .
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But of course she ought to have known that martin Jones would find out in the end.
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I could take you as my wife here the people are prejudiced against blacks they were happy martin luther king was killed.
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In summer the estate became the home of colonies of house martins and swallows.
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Phototherapy evolved between myself and Rosy martin out of the use of techniques from a range of therapies, plus photographic skills.
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Squirrels and martins moved in the trees, and once they came almost face to face with a boar.
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The technical skill of the house martin enables it to construct gravity-defying mud nests beneath the eaves of houses.
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We used to have a family of martins nesting directly over our front porch, just under my bedroom window.