noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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favourite
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Now they are claiming £10,000 damages against Church Fish Farm for taking all the fun out of their favourite pastime .
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His favourite pastimes were shooting and golf.
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Another favourite pastime was planning raids on the various apartments and cars owned by their friends.
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One of Endill's favourite pastimes with the Bookman was making things with him.
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Indeed it had never been a favourite pastime of hers.
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Lawren was therefore well off and able to indulge in his favourite pastime of painting.
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The three friends sat down and enjoyed their favourite pastime - eyeing up the women in the theatre-bar.
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My favourite pastimes are: 1.
national
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Overloading circuits was a national pastime .
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And others he could not graft on to the national pastime .
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So why hasn't cricket - our glorious national pastime - managed to give birth to a popular cricket fanzine?
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But that was before Washington bashing became the national pastime .
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His quest for a wife had developed into a national pastime .
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Baseball may be our national pastime , but March Madness is our national passion.
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Turning the other cheek is the national pastime .
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Since then, talk shows have become a national pastime .
popular
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Kids, probably - joy-riding was a popular pastime among the city's bored teenagers.
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They had their own uniforms and military codes, and belonging to one of the squadrons became a popular Sunday pastime .
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Minutes after her announcement, digging foxholes be-came a popular pastime .
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King Ewen's brainwave remained a popular pastime until the beginning of the Middle Ages.
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Painting seems to be a popular pastime - but is it an appropriate image?
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In recent years the discrediting of quangos has become a popular political pastime .
■ VERB
become
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Shooting parrots therefore becomes a pastime for some people.
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They had their own uniforms and military codes, and belonging to one of the squadrons became a popular Sunday pastime .
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Necking, petting, become gratifying enough pastimes and I am lucky with the boys in my life.
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Anyway, the chipping of the clay has become a national pastime , and a pretty rotten one at that.
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But that was before Washington bashing became the national pastime .
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In recent years the discrediting of quangos has become a popular political pastime .
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Since then, talk shows have become a national pastime .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A Gallup poll found gardening to be America's leading pastime .
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As a pastime , keeping and riding horses has always been very expensive.
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Gardening is my mother's favourite pastime .
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In southern Europe, shooting birds is a popular pastime .
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Our cat's favourite pastime is sitting at the window and watching the people walk by.
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Watching talk shows has become a national pastime in this country.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But there is also something worrying about a plastic box outwitting humans at this most cerebral of pastimes.
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But they are often quite creative in figuring out mutually interesting pastimes.
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Evangelicalism became an especially potent force in the attack on traditional pastimes.
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His favourite pastimes were shooting and golf.
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Living as he does in Moycullen, he has ample local opportunities to indulge in these pastimes.
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No doubt it was a deadly pastime in those years.
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Surely there are features of human nature other than this one overexposed and troublesome procreative pastime .