noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
messenger boy
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
boy
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The first Prime Ministers were messenger boys , but with potentially great influence.
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A messenger boy had joined them, was trying to help.
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Being a messenger boy just isn't where it's at.
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After questioning the messenger boy for some three hours, Berret and Harris released him.
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Lord Tebbit calls him Mr Kohl's messenger boy to Copenhagen.
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What was so bloody active about being an overblown messenger boy ?
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Production and progress A number of entrants to production and progress departments are promoted from humbler positions like messenger boys .
■ VERB
send
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Diplomacy represented, in other words, an alternative to force and involved sending messengers from one tribe to the enemy camp.
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The boys whose idea death had been were now talking about sending a messenger to the College.
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He sent a messenger , a monk, Otto of Salem, to Rome to sound out Innocent.
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For the moment I send this messenger .
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But perhaps Narouz sent a messenger .
shoot
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Criticising Alan for saying how well scum are playing is a bit like shooting the messenger who brings bad news.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Captain Anderson did not come himself, but sent a messenger instead.
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In the late afternoon a messenger arrived to inform me that the chief was on his way.
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The king's messenger stayed in Rome for further talks.
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When he was sixteen Alan got a job as a messenger boy in an advertising agency.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Conrad of Speyer was charged with executing one messenger and detaining others.
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Deaver also appeared to act as a messenger between the First lady and her husband, and sometimes even as a surrogate.
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Fedora Barbieri with Hina Spani in the role of the messenger .
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He placed the bet by messenger .
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He will let my messenger go, I am sure.
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The role chosen by the teacher here is as neutral as possible, to avoid confrontation, effectively a messenger .
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The weaver shook his head but the messenger dared not leave his door till his master's errand had been fulfilled.
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Those signals are carried from nerve cell to nerve cell by chemical messengers called neurotransmitters.