I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
highway patrol
patrol car
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
area
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As they patrol their area regularly you should not have to wait long.
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You either patrolled an area close by or you were flown by helicopter to the more remote places.
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None the less, all three uses experienced a greater need to warden or patrol their areas in seasons of recreational use.
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Benson used 6 extra patrol cars to patrol the area where the black bikers met.
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A simple system of flag warnings is backed up by volunteers with loudspeakers who will patrol the shore areas .
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The warning came from the Solway River Purification Board, which patrols waterways in the area .
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Extra officers are patrolling the area .
border
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Why were the Marines patrolling the border ?
officer
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My officers have been bravely patrolling that estate, on behalf of the community which we serve, and will continue to do so.
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Partygoers rocked a bus and threw stones and bottles at police officers and patrol cars.
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Extra officers are patrolling the area.
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Currently there are only about 5, 200 officers patrolling the entire country, which has a population of about 7 million.
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Two officers on a police patrol launch stationed just across the river at Westminster Pier saved the youngster's life.
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The show, which depicts eight officers patrolling the fictitious town of El Camino, debuted March 3.
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The body was spotted some four hours ago, by a pair of officers patrolling the promenade.
police
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The justification was to make police patrols more unpredictable to potential malefactors.
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Partygoers rocked a bus and threw stones and bottles at police officers and patrol cars.
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Civil police , who perform investigations, tend to be paid slightly less than military police, who patrol communities.
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Mayor Brown exhorted the Mission police station to patrol the park every day.
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Five hundred riot police now patrol the streets.
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But this afternoon police patrolling the M40 through Oxfordshire said some motorists were simply ignoring the warnings.
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Although the Police Department stepped up patrols there several months ago, Brown decided Friday to call on other agencies.
soldier
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Four soldiers with submachine guns patrolled the room, and an officer made his rounds at frequent intervals.
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Joint army-police patrols From Feb. 1 soldiers joined police in patrolling the streets of major cities and towns throughout the Soviet Union.
street
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Air raid wardens patrolled the streets to make sure no lights were showing in houses.
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The guests are greeted by the New York cop who patrols the New York street scene.
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Five hundred riot police now patrol the streets .
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He had seen a number of figures dressed in blue, patrolling the streets .
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He patrols Cheltenham's streets and car parks.
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They patrolled the streets and aimed to prevent, by their presence, the committing of petty offences or minor disorder.
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Police patrolled the streets and troops set up a road block and checked all vehicles entering or leaving.
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This was in the year when, as a youthful and helmeted fire-watcher, I patrolled the streets at home in Cardiff.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
foot soldier/patrol
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Barbarossa's foot soldiers were often still attired like this eleventh-century warrior.
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Dreben says that he never talks about his experiences as a foot soldier, but they were certainly horrific.
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Each foot soldier also carried a bow, twelve arrows and a spare bowstring as standard equipment.
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Hayworth is one of the many first-term Republican foot soldiers who proudly fall into lockstep behind Rep.
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In such cases, the environment provides foot soldiers with confusing signals regarding the acceptable level and forms of political activism.
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It is important to emphasize any explanation of the foot soldiers is highly contingent upon the environment in which they are operating.
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The columns included foot soldiers, artillery and cavalry units, white-topped sup-ply wagons, and dark-hued ambulances.
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These were organized into four divisions of foot soldiers and about 500 light cavalry.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Brook had been wounded while patrolling on the border.
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Riot police patrolled the hotel.
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Striking workers armed with steel pipes patrolled the shipyard.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Air raid wardens patrolled the streets to make sure no lights were showing in houses.
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Brown received much heat for his proposal last month that gang members patrol the 14 Mission line.
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Guards with AK47 assault rifles patrol the camp perimeter but there is no need to keep people in.
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He had pulled a hamstring during his warm-up and had done well to patrol as relentlessly as he did for an hour.
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He must patrol by night and walk by day.
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Mr Smyth argued that it would place officers in the uncomfortable position of patrolling with colleagues they had once arrested.
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No day went by that did not see Red Hill patrolling the river.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
military
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If so, will he ensure that a police officer accompanies every military patrol whenever humanly possible?
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It was a strange feeling to see the military patrols in the empty streets on election day, 15 February 1996.
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A military police patrol asked that he tour the area with them to find his friend.
routine
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Occupations and professions Much criticism has recently been made of the performance of routine police patrol .
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That was when the police car arrived. Routine patrol , but Morenz began to shake.
■ NOUN
air
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The picket line was supplemented by daily long-range air patrols by naval aircraft.
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Above, our full combat air patrol was on the alert.
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At any given hour there were aircraft aloft on combat air patrol , killing time, waiting for orders.
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They had somehow caught our combat air patrol flatfooted, though not for long.
boat
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Their lead over the patrol boat was down to two hundred yards.
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But lifeguards on a patrol boat sent to the area could not locate the whale.
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Despite the protection of the reef, there was sufficient sea running to make the patrol boat roll through sixty degrees.
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He didn't bother to look back to see whether the shots were coming from the patrol boat or from the tender.
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Soon after, lifeguards gave up their search and ordered the crew to moor their patrol boat .
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Trent looked back straight into the bows of the patrol boat .
border
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They must have been a border patrol .
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The mood is relaxed, and two border patrol officers chat across the fence.
car
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The patrol car arrives again and parks across the road from us.
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Fifteen to twenty minutes later a patrol car drove up.
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The assault on Watson and the theft of his patrol car are two separate crimes, he contended, requiring separate sentences.
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Another had himself chauffeured around in patrol cars .
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Consequently, the riders were escorted to the state line where Mississippi patrol cars took over.
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There will already be a couple of chaps in a patrol car down a side street as a matter of course.
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Police officials also said 12 patrol cars were seriously damaged in the melee.
foot
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I joined the uniform branch on foot patrol in the city centre division of Newcastle upon Tyne City Police.
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Kimi and the few who did attend asked for foot patrols at Kenilworth.
highway
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The police highway patrols use white Porsche cars.
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It may be called the state police, state troopers, militia, the rangers or the highway patrol .
night
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In 1921, for instance night patrols made thirteen arrests for cattle stealing in the Southern and Western Provinces.
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They were the relief night patrol on their way to take over from their colleagues, evidently as yet unaware of their capture.
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They also suggest that parish councils be given powers to spend additional resources from the Government on additional police or night patrols .
officer
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The mood is relaxed, and two border patrol officers chat across the fence.
■ VERB
send
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Now and then we were sent out of our normal patrol area on special operations.
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But it is a good excuse for us to send out a patrol of our own.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Police have increased patrols in some neighborhoods.
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the US border patrol
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Detecting suspicious activity in the community is where the bike patrol agents come in handy.
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From here I watch a patrol of pelicans skim the ocean surface while waves crash against the rocks.
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Night patrols were introduced in many districts, and some cattle thieves were caught transporting stolen animals.
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On the way we met two patrols with machine guns and my escort had to give what I thought was a password.
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Their pickets were posted too close to camp, and no cavalry patrols were out.
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Then further enemy aircraft arrived and bombed and strafed the patrol for several hours.
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They were forced to beat a hasty retreat and arrived at their rendezvous with Morris's patrol on time.