I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
front
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With great discretion, the overcoats in the front pews blew their noses.
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Her children Peter, 15, and 11-year-old Zara are expected to sit in the front pew for the short service.
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In the front pew the couple sat waiting to be married.
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Everybody was there in the front pew .
■ NOUN
church
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The dining tables were tucked away in high-sided compartments like old-fashioned church pews .
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Then he fell off the narrow church pew .
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She sits in the church pew nest to you each week.
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Although we warmed a church pew three times a week, I thought the hands were kind of silly.
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And there sat Jeff Gordon, 29, somber-faced in a church pew .
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There was a tall dresser, a church pew and a delicate writing table.
■ VERB
sit
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They sat in the family pew .
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She sits in the church pew nest to you each week.
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The girls from Beckingsale House sat in the pews right at the back, their clothing resembling prison uniform.
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Her children Peter, 15, and 11-year-old Zara are expected to sit in the front pew for the short service.
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He sat down in a pew next to the cupboard doors with their beautiful oak grain and old ironwork.
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Then he closed the door behind him and came to sit in the same pew .
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I sat in my pew and heard him prate on for at least an hour and a half.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Except for the pews and the floors, almost every interior surface was covered with statues or paintings.
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His hand reached for the corner of a pew , the other scrabbling at the cracks in the uneven floor.
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She sits in the church pew nest to you each week.
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The great audience rose, clapping and applauding, as the soldiers filed into she pews reserved for them....
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The inner door stood open and through it she caught sight of Eleanor Shergold sitting in one of the pews.
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Then, toward the front, on the gospel side, he saw a man kneeling in a pew .
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There is a row of pews on either side of the chapel to seat two in each pew.
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Yes, by all means, take a pew .
II. interjection
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Pew ! What stinks?