I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
poor
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Jules paced beside her and said nothing at all, imagining no doubt that she was a poor little orphan .
■ NOUN
boy
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The children's home is sending us one of their orphan boys .
child
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In the case of orphan children the position is relatively clear: a child without parents needs some one to care for it.
girl
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It may well be that the better education of orphan girls was a particular feature of the experiment.
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They Survey the huddled women briefly, then Stare at the orphan girls .
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Jane, the orphan girl , was chosen to go.
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Due to some unexplained back story, Royer-Collard has been keeping a young orphan girl locked away at a nunnery.
■ VERB
help
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Help us to help our boys help the orphans .
leave
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I was left an orphan at an early age and became a ward of court.
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Second, Aids has slashed life expectancy in many countries, killing the most economically productive generation and leaving orphans and elderly.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Dr Barnardo founded homes for orphans in the late nineteenth century.
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Pepino was a ten-year-old orphan . His parents had been killed in the war.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Fiona Grogan, 17, portrayed orphan Sophie with the right quality of childlike credibility without patronising children.
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Four orphans vow to be a family, but come to break their promises.
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He is the unloved schoolboy son of an unhappy marriage; she is an orphan .
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Richard was an orphan , adopted at nine months.
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Sheikhas were always looking for homeless orphans to take under their wing.
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They are not just servants, they are like my own family: I call them my orphans.
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This orphan grew up to be a soldier.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
child
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When she dies-and it will be soon-she will leave behind three orphaned children .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But what if they were obliged to seek that elusive spring for the good of those they'd orphaned and anguished?
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Cyril had been stranded, orphaned, in adulthood, in the land of the grown-up.
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I remember the night Kip was orphaned.
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Philip Leapor may therefore have been orphaned at the age of eight.
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The first to come were two boys orphaned in the war in Kampuchea.
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They began with a small rented house, its first occupants a handful of people, including children orphaned by the war.
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They had been orphaned and were so desperate for work that they auditioned while still mourning.
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When she dies-and it will be soon-she will leave behind three orphaned children.