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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
make
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Now Surrey, a dicky bird tells me, are making overtures .
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By 1987 he was busy making overtures to Washington.
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Arledge, whom Gumbel admires, had made earlier overtures .
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After making these overtures , Harding pressed Congress no further and made no additional public moves to support the Dyer Bill.
reject
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He began to tell his family she was his girlfriend although in reality she had rejected his overtures .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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sexual overtures
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At this overture , Alice looked perplexed.
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Californians have already begun seeing overtures from retailers as the competition stirs.
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Colours echo with overtures of country lane rambles, windswept beaches and wild flower-filled meadows.
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He began to tell his family she was his girlfriend although in reality she had rejected his overtures.
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In fact, I had once or twice let myself be tempted into making overtures to her.
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Opera overtures usually contain all the main musical themes of the opera, and should be listened to with the curtain down.
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So in the overture they put Reuben Reeves on stage doing some of Louis's tunes.
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The Svoboda overture seemed a minor but palpable discovery.