noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a car/motorbike etc engine
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I heard the sound of a car engine in the distance.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
ride
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The Corporal was still on the wall, all credit to him, legs astride as if he was riding a motorbike .
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Frank is old now, over seventy, and he has stopped riding his motorbike .
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Tom had never before ridden pillion on a motorbike , but Andy the neighbour had a spare crash helmet.
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Ben Hunt has been riding motorbikes since he was three.
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Nas loved riding his motorbike through the Suffolk countryside and that's what he was doing on the night he died.
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Guy Aged sixteen, Guy was riding a borrowed motorbike when he fell off and hit his head.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A woodcock sounded in the near distance, like some one trying to kick-start an old motorbike .
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Jimmy, dressed in jeans and a black leather jacket, had arrived on his motorbike .
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Luckily, as they returned to Cockroach, Wednesday's dormitory, they bumped into Matron who was fixing her motorbike .
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The yard was empty except for a neat looking two-horse box and at the far end a large powerful motorbike .
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Yesterday we had one working motorbike , and tomorrow we will have one working motorbike.