I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
farther south/north etc
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Two miles farther south is the village of Santa Catarina.
head north/south etc
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We headed south towards the capital.
magnetic north
North Pole
North/South divide
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The North/South divide is characteristic of Britain.
north/south etc of sth
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a historic seaside town 99 km south of London
the east/west/north/south coast
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We stayed on the south coast of the island.
the north/south etc wind (= coming from the north etc )
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They sought shelter from the north wind.
the North/South Pole
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Amundsen’s expedition was the first to reach the South Pole.
true north
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
due
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This is one of the few Lakeland crags to face due north and receives virtually no sun whatsoever.
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At first the meteorologists thought that she would travel almost due north .
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This he grew long and combed up, due north .
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Fort William is due north of Glasgow but the Ben Nevis range effectively barred a direct course for the line.
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Then the path turns due north to the daddy of all potholes, Gaping Gill.
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From here head due north to monument on top of Eston Nab.
far
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The old Lombard aristocracy was gradually crumbling away except in the far north and the distant south.
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Sykes's parents are from the far north .
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One theory says that tigers evolved in the far north .
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This would require the sun to be in the far north .
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It really was difficult to believe that we could be so far north .
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We bought cartloads of parchment from Charterhouse, Oxford and even sent orders to places as far north as Norwich and Cambridge.
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Heading farther north , a journey along the 60 miles of coast road is rewarding for its spectacular views.
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Ivory was certainly carried as far north as York during Anglo-Saxon times.
further
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They had been driven far further north than he had expected.
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Heading further north , a journey along the 60 miles of coast road is rewarding for its spectacular views.
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We told Matata we wanted to go further north still, into the Chobe and Moremi game parks.
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Generally, the tigers of the south are smaller and darker than those further north .
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However, there was to be a significant change as the convoy journeyed further north .
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And eight miles further north , at Wentbridge on the A1, another motorist was killed in the fog.
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Thus the Highland Boundary Fault may lie further north than is shown in Fig.
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This is occurring spontaneously, but not at a rate which significantly affects the dense clusters further north .
■ NOUN
bank
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A decrepit footbridge crosses to the north bank .
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He led the way down the slope to the river, now frozen solid from here to the north bank .
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If Sunil was on the north bank , I reckon it must have been Declan.
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Clydebank's industrial landscape can be seen from the A814 passing the north bank of the river from Glasgow to the west.
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I have deliberately confined most of the detailed consideration in this study to the north bank of the Tyne.
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Only the off flounder left on the north bank at Portmadoc with no reports from the estuary.
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Then, about half way to Black Point, I'd snug down in the anchorage of Bridgemarsh on the north bank .
coast
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The first, titled Bosigran, covers the north coast from Wicca Pillar to Sennen.
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At this rate, she will never make the north coast by nightfall.
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At last I found the right place on an island off the north coast .
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Off the north coast of Siberia there may be something even bigger.
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Heavy industry was developed along the north coast , without any consideration of chemical, atmospheric and environmental pollution.
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Some of the women are lifelong volunteers, but many began to get involved once they moved to the north coast .
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In some places on exceptionally clear days you can almost see from the south to the north coast .
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From Portela, an alternative route is to go along the north coast through Porto da Cruz and Faial.
country
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His loneliness, far worse than anything suffered in the empty north country , overwhelmed him and became intolerable.
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A place far, far away in the magical north country , whence I got my nature but not my nurture.
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Firm C was a provincial branch practice in a north country town, carried largely by a managing clerk.
east
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Location Situated on the north east coast or Rhodes between Faliraki and Lindos.
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Schools in mid, north east and north west Essex resort to excluding pupils far less than elsewhere in the county.
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They are centred approximately 30 miles north east of Anglesey.
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After the complaint, he was summoned to London and quizzed by Mr Justice Waller, presiding judge for the north east .
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You find yourself on the crest of a steep ridge running gently north east towards the summit.
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Some states, such as that of Ceara in the north east , have taken radical steps.
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He is currently top of the jobs league in the north east .
end
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Managing nicely seemed an odd thing to do at the north end of the Reach.
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With his own violin in hand, Merola stood in the north end zone and played.
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The only access to the port is through the Gillingham Gate which is at the north end of Bridge Road.
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Thing is they are the north end .
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After a week in the swamps he left us in a camp at the north end of the Okavango.
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He used to spear fish for grouper at the north end , then cook his catch for tourists.
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There was seating for 18,000 in the north end zone.
face
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Sheltering the village with is impressive yet formidable presence is the north face of the Eiger.
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So the total effect was like bedding down for the night on the north face of Kilimanjaro.
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There are other groups of these huts on the north face of Beinn Tart a Mhill.
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An opening on El Castillo's north face leads inside to an ascending staircase.
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The stairs seem like the north face of the Eiger, the temperature sheer hell.
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Winter maintains its bitter grasp on this north face longer than any other in Britain.
pole
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Two people standing at distant points on the globe would have completely different ideas about where the magnetic north pole lay.
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Joseph Harker Is there anything intrinsically upward about the north pole ?
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The flow of a magnetic field is taken from magnetic north pole to magnetic south pole.
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It's been to the magnetic and geomagnetic north poles .
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Beyond this point the observer would be returning to the north pole .
side
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She lived with the child and her father stayed with them from time to time in the flat on the north side of Glasgow.
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These will include the building on the north side of the street that the Sixth Street Pub once occupied.
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Look, sir; they're working on the north side of the nave at present.
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He describes himself as a white upper-middle-class guy from the north side .
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At the end, to the north side , the policeman led Duncan into a small suite of offices.
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His advisor, Paul Krausman, took him to the foothills on the north side of Pusch Ridge.
west
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Most yachtsmen from the south think of the wild weather as the chief drawback to cruising in the extreme north west .
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Schools in mid, north east and north west Essex resort to excluding pupils far less than elsewhere in the county.
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Hot sun, seas really warm, regular north west winds.
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Nagano prefecture, 400 kilometres north west of Tokyo, is a mountainous area famous for its snow and extensive skiing facilities.
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In February 1475 the duke's standing in the north west was strengthened by his appointment for life as sheriff of Cumberland.
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St Gilgen St Gilgen is set on the north west shore of the Wolfgangsee.
wind
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Hot winds , and the sugary savor of the air! ... The squalling north wind beats against my windows.
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A moaning north wind that ebbed and flowed like the sound of surf and ocean waves.
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The morning was cold, in the wake of the north wind that had frozen the fields since mid-March.
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Winter is coming on the north wind , and winter in the Maine woods comes to stay for six months.
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Pine trees, swayed by the north wind , whisper; the bracken sighs.
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He didn't even seem to be aware that a chill north wind was blowing.
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Ships docking at Amnisos could well have found themselves trapped there by a north wind , just as Odysseus claimed he was.
■ VERB
head
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Our alternative is to head north , to the coast.
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C., radiant with the autumn light, and headed north up into the hills.
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They headed north , and after a few minutes she began to think she might actually survive.
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He knew the time had come to head directly north along the western coast and investigate Cape Wrath at last.
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Without really being conscious of what I was doing, I ended up heading roughly north .
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She'd already phoned home to check her answering-machine for messages, now she was free to head north .
lie
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All these lands lie to the north of the Empire, beyond the land of Kislev.
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Although the name Savoy later developed out of Sapaudia, the area in question seems to have lain to the north of Geneva.
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This uneasy county lies north of Dublin and south of the Border.
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The only solution lies north of the Border - with you.
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Gloucester's major acquisitions in the reshuffle of 1471 lay in the north .
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Pentonville, north London suburb, lying just to the north of Clerkenwell.
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Haddo House and its 180 acres of gardens lies about 20 miles north of Aberdeen.
live
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We lived in Highgate, north London.
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Everybody lives on either the north side, the south side or the west side, the east side.
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If you live north of Watford, give it a try.
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Most are living in north London, on income support and with help from Kurdish groups.
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They always seem to live somewhere in the north as typified by this quotation from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.
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He claimed that some were the work of Edward Prince, an artist who lived in the north of the city.
move
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I move north when they move south.
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Some of the women are lifelong volunteers, but many began to get involved once they moved to the north coast.
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Accept a £12m offer to move Wimbledon north to merge with a League club who would take over the Premier League franchise.
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A new report suggests the commercial traffic in death and destruction is moving from south to north .
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It moved over to the north before it reached the camp, so that we never heard much of the thunder.
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But her generation and its immediate elders were beginning to move north .
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James appointed new guardians with wider powers on each side of the Border, and troops were moved north .
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With each warm spell tundra and forest edges have moved north , only to be forced south again during cooler spells.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
due north/south/east/west
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At noon, the storm was 150 miles due east of New York City.
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As we were heading due north, we would remain to the right, or east, of that squiggle.
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Beehive, another sulfide edifice, is a five-minute submersible ride due west of Moose.
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Fort William is due north of Glasgow but the Ben Nevis range effectively barred a direct course for the line.
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Jouctas is also clearly seen, to due south, from the ancient harbor of Knossos.
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The direction is there, she said when she came down, and she pointed due west.
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The main track on which they were travelling led due west for a while and then turned slightly north.
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The road into Mountain Province, due east of Tamarong, zigzagged along a sharp ridge high above the rice terraces.
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This he grew long and combed up, due north.
north of Watford
the North Pole
the far north/south etc
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I wanted to go to Sunderland because it is in my own region, the far north.
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It will become windy in the far north and west, and remain warm in the south.
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The ancient realm of Solland in the far south and Drakwald in the north no longer exist and consequently have no counts.
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The climatic extremes of the far north mean that forests take a long time to regenerate.
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The decline of the maple began in 1912, in Pennsylvania, and reached the far north in 1932.
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The underground realm was connected by tunnels stretching from the far north to the south beyond the Old World itself.
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This is the largest gallery and the farthest South found in the Survey.
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This would require the sun to be in the far north.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Further to the north you take the ferry across from East to West Cowes to avoid a big detour inland via Newport.
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In the early 1970s he was editor of the Provisional republican newspaper in the north , Republican News.
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It has large and influential cereals and sugar barons in the north , but it has many small livestock farmers as well.
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She came back to the north with him after that and they lived together again for a time.
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There was a slight wind coming from the north , and I turned into it.
II. adjective
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
due north/south/east/west
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At noon, the storm was 150 miles due east of New York City.
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As we were heading due north, we would remain to the right, or east, of that squiggle.
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Beehive, another sulfide edifice, is a five-minute submersible ride due west of Moose.
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Fort William is due north of Glasgow but the Ben Nevis range effectively barred a direct course for the line.
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Jouctas is also clearly seen, to due south, from the ancient harbor of Knossos.
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The direction is there, she said when she came down, and she pointed due west.
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The main track on which they were travelling led due west for a while and then turned slightly north.
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The road into Mountain Province, due east of Tamarong, zigzagged along a sharp ridge high above the rice terraces.
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This he grew long and combed up, due north.
north of Watford
the North Pole
III. adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
continue
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At noon they ate the sandwiches and then continued north through mostly open water.
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They swam the Colorado and continued north into Davis Canyon.
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At first light he continued north .
drive
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Minutes later the three were driving north to a city Lelia thinks was Milan.
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They rounded everyone up, put them in trucks, and drove north for several days.
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Or some one driving north toward Lake of the Woods, moving fast, coming to her rescue.
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A three hours' drive north of Dodge City is the town of Oberlin, Kansas.
face
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In this room the windows face north .
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The narrow windows faced north , it smelled of mold.
go
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Why shouldn't she go north and start another kind of life with herself in charge of it?
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The bodies are stacked up until they have two ambulance loads-one going north and one south.
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At that point he was going north , and that would be the limit of our ride with him.
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As you go north , the rivers are more likely to have water.
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If the mother said go north , her child went south.
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Just up the road, going north , at a crossing, stood a boarded-up church.
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He had to go north himself in a few days, for a final interview.
head
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We headed north , traveling 190 miles mostly by interstate, stretched to six hours by frequent stops.
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The way moves cast, and then doubles back, labyrinth-like, to head north and up the stairs.
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They cluster around telephone boxes and the bus station, plotting to head north .
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Are the prices of homes in your area heading north or south in 1996?
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I am heading north now, through the suburbs where the workers live.
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After the quick tour we head north .
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I headed over to my Civic and headed north .
move
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More than 15,000 troops holding the garrison were ordered to move north .
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As the floodwaters moved north of Grand Forks, more roads and rail lines were submerged.
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In 1955 Rodia gave the Towers to a neighbour and moved north to retire to Martinez in California with his family.
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And just as many people from the south moved north .
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The laborers then moved north to the San Joaquin to thin peaches and apricots and later to pick them.
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Of the 80, 000 persons displaced by the storm, however, 15, 000 moved north into Broward County.
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He was moving north with his unit when suddenly the silence was broken by the crackle of rifle and mortar fire.
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The city center moved north with the development of banks and other businesses.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Go north on I-5 to Portland.
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The window faces north .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Farther north , London changed and became more leafy suburban.
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That sent me to Nipomo, eight miles north of Santa Maria.
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Their ancestors travelled in man's wake, in separate waves north and south around the icy Alps as farmers moved west.
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We got to Pecos in short order and turned north for Carlsbad.
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When her crimes were discovered, she fled north to a river called the Danube.