noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a pavement café British English , a sidewalk café American English (= with tables and chairs on the pavement outside )
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We had a lunch at a pavement café in Montmartre.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
wet
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Outside, shop windows, parked cars, even reflections on wet pavements all give extra information.
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Eventually the houses started, and the street lamps, shining yellow on the wet pavements .
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She could see the iron railings of the park, the glitter of wet pavement .
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She sets her hair every night - it is black and shines like the moon on a wet pavement .
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The wet pavements cast back mirror reflections.
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The lamplight, reflected on the wet pavements , lay in shining golden pools.
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Big sparks sprayed off the brick walls and tyres screamed on the wet pavements .
■ NOUN
cafes
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Step ashore to a world of pavement cafes , boutiques and the continental charm of Port Solent's fashionable shopping mall.
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In the evenings, nightlife centres around the large number of bars, pavement cafes and restaurants.
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Today's shoppers will discover sensitively-restored shopping quarters shouldering friendly markets, and pavement cafes nestling alongside high-street names.
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Here there are famous department stores, fashion shops, retail shops with high quality goods, confectioners and pavement cafes .
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Crumbling motels and coffee shops from the 1960s have given way to modern hotels, boutiques and pavement cafes .
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Small shops, pavement cafes and steps are around every corner.
café
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Then there's the beautiful Königsallee - a tree- lined boulevard lined with shops, pavement cafés and restaurants.
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Drinking at a pavement café on Ben Yehuda was for each of them a way of signing off from the mission.
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Hannover is by no means a big city, but it has plenty of restaurants, pavement cafés and bars.
■ VERB
hit
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The brown paper bag tied with white string hit the pavement , split and corn went all over the place.
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Or pull out your own wheels and hit the pavement .
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I wrenched the wheel round in a tight turn, hitting the pavement as I went.
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Quinn hit the opposite pavement thirty-three seconds after putting down the phone on Zack.
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It began to rain when she was half way along Gloucester Road, big spots like buttons hitting the pavement .
lie
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A Great Tightness lies on most pavements unleashing itself round all passing ankles.
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The entire hood had been pulled off and was lying on the pavement .
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It would be good to be greeted as you walked along by smiling creatures lying along the pavements .
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She saw what appeared to be a bundle of rags lying on the pavement .
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Black dust lay on the pavement collecting in the spaces of the bridge's primed balustrade.
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Others lay on the pavement , trying to forget the events of the day in sleep.
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The next thing she knew, she was lying sprawled across the pavement .
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She lay on the pavement staring up at Maura Ryan, amazed.
mount
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The car mounted a pavement , struck a wall, hit the children and smashed into a lamppost.
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It mounted a pavement , smashed a lamp-post and ended up on its roof in the middle of the road.
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The woman suffered head injuries after she was mowed down by a car which mounted the pavement .
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I swung Armstrong to the right and mounted the pavement on my side, not more than twenty feet from him.
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With the scream of a falling bomb the car mounted the pavement and crossed it on to the road the other side.
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The pursuer threw himself aside as the vehicle mounted the pavement , slamming into a lamp-post.
pound
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He turned and saw a lithe figure in a track suit pounding the pavement towards him.
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And if my next fifteen years are spent pounding the pavement in search of a job without a handset in it - too bad.
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When he's not on the track competing, you will find Paul out pounding the pavements .
run
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I ran on to the pavement , dragging my cart after me.
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Remains of wagon trails run just off the pavement .
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Her feet run on the pavement like rapid fingers over harp-strings.
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Summer tires for smooth, quiet running on smooth pavement are not things of joy in 6inches of heavy, wet snow.
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She sagged in his arms, catching dizzied sight of the assailant running across the pavement , with another man in pursuit.
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I was driving away in my car and he was running along the pavement trying to keep up.
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I ran into the road, did a Highland fling and ran back on to the pavement .
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Adam kept low and dodged between the cars as he ran to the pavement .
stand
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He stood on the pavement watching for something, some sign of her presence in the house.
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We stood on the cold pavement all day.
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They were standing on the pavement , by the gate.
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Keith was standing on the pavement outside my digs talking to a woman.
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He could see her in his rear mirror, standing on the pavement looking wistfully after him.
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He was standing on the pavement of a street called Southampton Row.
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She stood on the pavement looking up at the windows of their kitchen on the third floor.
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Her neighbour, from the next door tenement, was standing on the pavement .
step
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She stepped off the pavement , and a car with squealing brakes drove her back again, frightened and flustered.
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They stepped off the pavement outside and crossed over to another group of shops that curved around the square.
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As they stepped out on to the pavement Charlie bade his partner goodnight with an exaggerated bow.
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As he stepped off the pavement to cross the side street, he felt as if he were stepping off a cliff.
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Zaborski stepped out on to the pavement and walked towards another door held open for him.
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I opened the door for Patterson and then locked the cab up after he'd stepped gingerly on to the pavement .
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A cold breeze was blowing in off the sea which blasted them the moment they stepped on to the pavement .
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Mahoney thanked her for the meal and left, stepping out on to the pavement .
walk
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He could just see her face as he walked over to the pavement beneath.
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Foster walked out into the pavement , into the middle of the two-way river of pedestrians that was pushing north and south.
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She's walking along the pavement ahead of me, holding on to this woman's hand.
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It's pretty difficult to cross the road on account of all the traffic, so I just carry on walking on the pavement .
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I locked the car and began to walk back to the pavement on my way round to the front door.
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I got to walk careful cos the pavements are so slippy.
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He walked slowly down the pavements .
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He walked on glistening pavements , across streets where the rain spat back from the tarmac.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The saint's remains are buried beneath the pavement of a little chapel.
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What annoys me is that everyone parks on the pavement in front of our house.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Despite these problems, two-thirds of the children consider the residential street to be safer than the customary street with pavement .
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He sat in the place that Maidstone had suggested, at a table at the end of the café's pavement area.
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It washes over the low roofs of the two-storey terraces and dries the dirt on the pavements.
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Other measures can include chicanes, pavement extensions and road narrowings.
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The pavements glistened beneath the yellow lamplight.
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We sat down on the pavement near our bundles while my father went to look for the center.