I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a car park
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She couldn’t find a space in the car park.
a driving/parking/traffic offence
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Speeding is the most common traffic offence.
a parking permit
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You’ll need to apply for a residential parking permit.
amusement park
ball park
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Their estimate is in the right ball park.
business park
car park
caravan site/park (= area of land where people can park their caravans )
disabled parking/toilet/access etc (= for physically disabled people )
DNS parking
forest/park etc warden
game park
illegal parking/gambling/hunting etc
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The fines for illegal parking are likely to increase.
national park
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Yosemite National Park
park a car
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She parked the car by the side of the road.
park and ride
park keeper
park ranger
parking brake
parking facilities
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The building has parking facilities for twenty cars.
parking garage
parking light
parking lot
parking meter
parking restrictions
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Are there parking restrictions in the city centre?
parking ticket
retail park
safari park
science park
sculpture park
state park
theme park
trailer park
valet parking
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
industrial
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STOKESLEY-based property developer and builder, Avon, is to build a £4m industrial park at South Bank, Middlesbrough.
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We wanted to be in an industrial park .
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The industrial parks were the worst.
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The same zero-pollution closed-loop principles in a plating factory can be designed into an industrial park or entire region.
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Susan was twenty-two, a computer operator in a large mirror company in an industrial park near their apartment.
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The city also reached agreement with a major development firm to market the industrial park area.
large
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Alton Towers, 10 miles away, is the largest leisure park in the country and combines a mini-Disneyland with beautiful gardens.
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Over ten thousand square miles in area, it is several times the size of Yellowstone, our own largest national park .
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The carbon deposit was thought to come from car exhaust fumes from a large car park close to the church.
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There was a large park spreading in front of me.
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At Slotermeer, a suburb of Amsterdam, a large park remained unfinished due to lack of funds.
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No problem about parking there is a large free car park outside the main doors.
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The hotel has its own large private car park .
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It has the advantage of being tucked away behind the Munster - and there used to be a large car park there.
local
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Outside was very pleasant with views over open fields and a local park .
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I actually like the local park system.
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How often do you get out for a walk in the countryside or even in the local park ?
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If the weather is good, go outside to a local park or to the countryside.
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In addition, they would allocate local grants and manage local parks and libraries.
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Their lives take a startling turn when a friend is murdered in the local park .
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Neighbours and passers-by poured compliments on his handiwork, and even the local council's parks department were impressed.
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We head for the local needle park .
national
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The structure plans have also had an input into national park planning.
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Substantial fee increases for about 100 national parks will be announced by Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt over the next two months.
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At the same time, he ruled that the national parks in Kerry and Connemara would be no-go areas for mining.
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Like many national parks , Acadia in the summer has become crowded and intolerable.
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To see these we go to a national park within an hour's run of Sydney.
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We have already announced our intention to establish independent authorities for the eight national parks currently run as county council committees.
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In a $ 7.5 million effort to restore native plants and animals in the national park , the U.S.
new
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So Oxford's Lord Mayor was the first to wield the demolition hammer to help make way for a new business park .
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On the other hand, there will be a new park with jobs.
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Its new report increases the estimate because the new park expects to draw more fans.
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The area named in the court order has been used by gypsies but is earmarked for a new £125m business park .
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The resort that says it puts family first every day is opening a new park , the Wishing Well.
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The traders who trade around it can do nothing but benefit from the new multi-storey car park with 1,600 spaces.
public
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This public park is now known as Hubbards Hills.
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This trespass meant that no one must go inside the property because it was not public like a park , but private.
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The public park on Kampa Island consisted, until 1940, of private gardens belonging to these palaces.
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They no longer poach pigeons in public parks .
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Not long after these disclosures, Kasper was murdered by an unknown man with a dagger in a public park .
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She was standing face to face with a boy in the public park at the end of Decimus Street.
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Now some coward with a grudge has bombed a crowd of Olympics fans enjoying music in a public park .
small
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Near the Guardian bureau there is a small park , overlooked on three sides by tall buildings.
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At the tip of Ile Saint-Louis is a small triangular park where the island ends at a point.
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I am on a swing in a small park with my brother.
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He stopped for a few minutes in a small park to enjoy the scenery and collect his thoughts.
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After three miles you arrive at Magho where there is a small car park on the right.
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The sitting-room was on the first floor, above the garage, with a picture window overlooking a small park .
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Rise Hall, a large and handsome stone edifice, forms the centre of the village with a small but beautiful park .
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There is a small triangular park behind it and the crowd may have spilled out from the Great Hall.
■ NOUN
amusement
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And of course there is the famous Blackpool Pleasure Beach, a 4O acre amusement park , to visit.
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From his ever-changing complexion to his personal menagerie and private amusement park , Jackson has long cultivated an aura of eccentricity.
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The famous amusement park built in the heart of Copenhagen.
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The age-oriented community was conceived as a combination housing development and amusement park for active seniors.
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Last year Demi, who co-starred in Ghost, hired an amusement park for 37-year-old Bruce's big day.
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At the same time, you can do so without having to turn your branch into an amusement park .
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Peter Pan's Never Never Land, a plastic amusement park , lies under heavy rain on the front.
ball
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And the cost of a day at the ball park ?
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He can walk to the ball park from the house.
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Change-up curves are what Mantle hits out of ball parks .
bench
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So he walked to the park and sat on the park bench and let his thoughts pass through his head.
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And so, Janir, pronounced Ja-NEER: two syllables put together on a park bench on the day of his birth.
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In the space next to William on the park bench there is a Sunday newspaper, as yet unfolded.
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Old friends Sat on their park bench Like book ends.
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I just sat on the park bench and watched him dragging that potbelly around.
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Apart from that it's park benches and dark archways.
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Like what the crazy old lady on the park bench in front of the Regency said that day.
business
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A business park will provide offices and light industrial premises.
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But like much of Texas during that period, the business park was a bust.
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So Oxford's Lord Mayor was the first to wield the demolition hammer to help make way for a new business park .
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The mosque, a converted office in a Tempe business park , is wall-to-wall with faithful.
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The deal means property developer Legacy will turn the Dome into a hi-tech business park .
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Pleasanton built a business park that ignited a commercial exodus from several Bay Area cities and sent its real estate skyrocketing.
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The area named in the court order has been used by gypsies but is earmarked for a new £125m business park .
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The Crossing Business Center, a 115-acre business park and employment center within Summerlin.
car
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The Missile was fuelled and waiting in the basement car park .
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Reaching the reserve car park once more, turn left on to the track again.
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They pour into the backstage car park like expensive treacle and come to a halt at the crack of a whip.
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Short stay charges and places in premium car parks have risen and drivers caught flouting the rules face a hefty £30 fine.
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The group, and anyone who wants to join, meet in Nun's Close car park , Richmond, at 9.30am.
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I shake my head and set a course for the car park .
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It would look as though a mountain of flowers was moving through the car park all on its own.
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Nurse Amanda Cadder saw the Essex post worker shot down in a Florida car park .
caravan
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Continuing on, the path re-enters the woodland to a caravan park .
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Follow the cinder path through the caravan park until you reach a surfaced road.
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There is a caravan park , mercifully hidden from the village street.
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Our caravan park offers over 50 acres to roam in and enjoy.
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Visitors are catered for by hotels, guest houses and a large caravan park and many of them have a regular clientele.
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Today there is a large but discreet caravan park around the farm.
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The latest victim was a 44-year-old woman on holiday with her boyfriend at a caravan park south of Durban.
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She was last night being comforted by her boyfriend at a caravan park near the beach.
city
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On the one hand they are vilified as criminals, nipping at small children in city parks where they have been fed.
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The families living in parking lots and city parks.
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In May, police launched Operation Park, increasing patrols of city parks and playgrounds that have become makeshift campgrounds.
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That could be done by selling the association a bigger piece of the 170 acres of city park land.
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One managed the city park in its neighborhood.
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This spectacle usually took place in a city park .
ranger
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We got away and were finally rescued by a park ranger .
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Newman, who worked part-time as a Cheltenham school crossing guard and park ranger , has no prior record.
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I turn to look for my two companions, park rangers Dominic Cardea and Nancy Favour.
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Only one structure, the Rotchev House, is original, park ranger Bill Walton says.
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A man found her wandering around and took her to the park ranger , who called the police.
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Behind the desk was Jim Bell, the voluble park ranger in charge of the one-room visitors center.
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Besides hiring more recreation leaders, Brown said the city should assign a park ranger to Chollas Lake at least on weekends.
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After a one-day training program, volunteers help park rangers teach visitors how to tide-pool safely and carefully.
safari
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We revealed that monkeys from Longleat and Woburn safari parks have been sold for laboratory experiments.
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Longleat House and safari park is only 9 miles away.
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Six hundred villas will be built in the Center Parcs development at the Wilts safari park estate following an inquiry.
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We went up to the safari park , to Evesham for fruit picking, to Redditch for shopping.
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The colony are the survivors of 60 baboons which escaped from a safari park that closed 20 years ago.
state
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If an animal moves a millimetre out of the state park zones, it's dead.
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Similar cabins at several state parks in Northern California are seldom vacant, Picard said.
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In fact, reservations for state park campgrounds are already 85 percent booked for the entire summer.
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Efforts to convert the railroad into a state park succeeded in 1972.
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Most listings are for state parks and recreational areas, where hiking, wildlife viewing and stargazing are family favorites.
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In Episode Two, they pack a tent and sleeping bags a weekend at a nearby state park .
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The state parks department has chosen a new contractor, Park.
theme
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Sixteen companies and around 300 sub-contractors had claimed £85m of extra payments on the £2.3 billion theme park .
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No theme park developer is about to invest tens of millions on that short a lease.
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One such offer was from a theme park in Dogpatch, Arkansas, which is devoted to cast-off metal monuments.
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Popular with senior citizens and the motor-coach touring set, the Heritage Plantation is billed as an Americana theme park and arboretum.
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Only that this would be on a farm: a sort of gastronomic theme park .
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Several months ago, the Florida theme park put an 800 number on a mailing to repeat visitors.
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Future applications include video game software and theme park rides.
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Or maybe a theme park at sea?
trailer
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When she was born Eminem lived in a trailer park with little money from his kitchen job to feed or clothe her.
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Time was you would find Democrats in trailer parks .
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Knightsbridge must look like a trailer park .
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Time was the people in trailer parks had no doubt that they had a friend in the Oval Office.
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Indeed, there seems to be an unnatural attraction be tween wetlands and development similar to that between trailer parks and tornados.
■ VERB
create
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It calls for creating a skateboard park , a picnic area, a sculpture to climb on and an amphitheater.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a ball-park figure/estimate/amount
go down the shops/club/park etc
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We went down the shops on Saturdays.
in the (right) ball park
off-street parking
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Parking is a problem but the parish council are working to get a proper car park to give off-street parking.
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Without the creation of new off-street parking areas, this problem is likely to intensify.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Faults were discovered in the mountings on the crash barriers around the top deck of the car park in July.
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From 1924 until his death, he lived and worked in a studio adjacent to the park .
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He proposed opening a second restaurant in the park to emulate the success of the Beach Chalet.
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In fact, they say, he hid in the labyrinth of coal pits beside the river in the park .
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The park is alive with bright color in the warmer months.
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They had a sheet showing a car park and also cars to cut out.
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To help tackle the problem, the park authority is carrying out a research study.
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Under any plan, said Griffin and Kennedy, the park faces $ 30 million to $ 50 million worth of rehabilitation.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
outside
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While a police constable was in the living room, the car parked outside was being daubed by the youth.
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Prescott, the administration building, looked the same, except that there were a dozen cars parked outside .
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It seemed utterly incongruous that there were cars parked outside on the wide circular drive - carriages would have looked more appropriate.
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He drove to the Ritz Delicatessen and parked outside .
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When she arrived at her own gate, she saw a large black Mercedes motor-car parked outside .
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When she arrived back, Charles's car was parked outside though there was no sign of him in it.
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Her car was parked outside where she lived, but she herself was nowhere to be found.
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The car, presumably, was still parked outside .
■ NOUN
car
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A pick-up truck and two other cars have been parked against the windows.
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The chief said her car rear-ended a parked vehicle and pushed it into three others.
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While a police constable was in the living room, the car parked outside was being daubed by the youth.
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In addition, 90 cars could be parked beneath boat racks.
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There were a couple of trees on the pavement and between them one or two cars were parked .
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Talk to anyone who lifts briefcases and laptops from cars in parking lots.
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A big saloon car was parked outside the other door with its engine running.
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I closed up the office and went down the back steps to the lot, where I keep my car parked .
caravan
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The company truck was parked next to the caravan where Robert had left it.
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It's now proposing to make it a criminal offence to park a caravan on land without consent.
corner
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When it got dark I drove over and parked around the corner .
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I parked Armstrong round the corner and walked back to press the doorbell of 28.
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Douglas dropped Jean off at her car before parking round the corner .
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I bet myself he had a Skoda parked round the corner .
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Speeding away from the village never to return - or parked just around the corner ?
front
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He must have parked around the front of the motel.
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The big Lincoln was parked right in front of us, shrouded with a layer of cement-colored dust.
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If Maria Jakob's car had been parked in the front she would not have stopped.
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She parked in front of the office and went in.
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Miguel parked the car in front , stashing the briefcase under his seat before joining Domino on the stoop.
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Two huge generator trucks were parked in front of the ticket-holders' gate.
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Earl Varney parked his truck in front of the first of the sedans from Rehoboth.
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The parking lot in front of the dormitory was always full.
garage
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Unfortunately, it was damaged in the 1994 earthquake while parked in his garage .
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For example, Wynns floated the idea of eliminating surface street parking near the museum in exchange for a parking garage .
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She parked outside the garage and turned off the engine.
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By the year 2001 the tracks will circle the perimeter of the short-term parking garage roof in the middle of the loop.
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Downtown business types worry about things like access to parking garages .
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It was supposed to have been turned into a parking garage long before now.
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They also uncovered more than 60 sticks of wired dynamite in the trunk of a car parked in a Vallejo garage .
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Museum trustees argue that a parking garage must be built to satisfy the needs of their vehicle-dependent patrons.
house
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He had not parked in front of the house because he had no desire to draw attention to himself.
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The wrought iron gate, as usual, was open and he parked in front of the house .
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She got into the car, which was parked in front of the house .
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Sara discovered that they were to travel in two large buses which were parked outside the house .
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The digger, which was parked at the house after being repaired, was dumped 350 yards away.
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He was buzzed through the gates, and parked neatly in front of the house .
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Permission to park at house on application at Visitor Centre.
road
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It was still parked across the road from the boarding house.
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I parked off the road and ran to the beach area.
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She said she lived there and suggested David parked in a side road .
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There was a delay while people took their places in the vehicles parked along the road .
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I parked Armstrong on the road and walked down the short drive to the impressive Gothic porch around the front door.
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Your car is parked in the road off to the right.
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I usually park in Newgate Street, but when feeling unwell have occasionally parked on this road to cut down the walking.
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At the moment, the data is passed to police riders parked further down the road , who pull suspects over.
space
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At the chapel, there is space to park a car.
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The Rolls was parked in a reserved space .
trailer
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Parking the trailer Simply parking the trailer with the stands firmly down will not prevent really strong winds from doing irreparable damage.
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However, never park your trailer near one which has poor stands and is liable to swing in a wind.
truck
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The chatter of playing children drifted over from the tent village beside the rows of parked trucks .
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It was quite accidental that we planted Cleveland sage, a shrubby California native, next to where I park the truck .
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We park the truck just past Wino Tank and begin hiking up the canyon.
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Earl Varney parked his truck in front of the first of the sedans from Rehoboth.
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Resler and I jumped out while Leese and Nate went to park the truck .
van
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I parked the van alongside the bus stop, and Carol swayed to her feet thinking I was a bus.
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I parked my van and took a $ 1 5-a-week room in the Kalispell Hotel.
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It was hardly wider than a car and somebody had parked a van half way along.
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Stephen parked the van and delivered the screen.
vehicle
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They parked the vehicles and camouflaged themselves for the night, before settling down to cook.
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The driver was arrested after he crashed into a parked vehicle and tried to flee on foot.
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John Wells parked the vehicle then went to an auction in another car.
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The chief said her car rear-ended a parked vehicle and pushed it into three others.
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A word of warning: be careful not to park illegally as your vehicle is liable to be towed away.
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Some have side-mounted pullout sections; park the vehicle , flip a few latches and presto, instant living room.
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Parkers need to be clearly warned that they park their vehicles entirely at their own risk.
■ VERB
find
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One morning the following week, I went out to find a Toyota van parked outside the door of the bungalow.
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Her car was found in a parking lot at the bridge.
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When we arrived we found David Hall parked in his lorry, waiting for us.
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He found it parked safely at Santa Anita.
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When I arrive, I find Rainbow's taxi parked just outside the house.
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Eventually she found a place to park , beyond the post office.
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When you get to work you find a parking space pronto.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a ball-park figure/estimate/amount
in the (right) ball park
off-street parking
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Parking is a problem but the parish council are working to get a proper car park to give off-street parking.
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Without the creation of new off-street parking areas, this problem is likely to intensify.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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I couldn't find a place to park .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He called for tougher action by police on motorists who illegally park in and around existing bus stops.
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I informed Withers I would be needing my old parking space.
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Jack led Rothstein and friend to the West Side garage where the booze truck was parked.
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My dad would park the Horsebox in the pub's car park.
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Taxis have been parking here for more than thirty years.
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The palm-tree groves and pedestrian walkways represent a welcome change from the mostly treeless parking lots elsewhere in the valley.
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The spacious restaurant surrounded by a convenient parking lot beams out yellow.
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There were cars parked down both sides even if I'd wanted to get closer, which I didn't.