noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a pint of beer
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Two pints of beer, please.
a pint of milk
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I need to buy a pint of milk.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
glass
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Dempster banged on the bar with his pint glass , once.
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He studiously finished filling the pint glass , ignoring the raucous voices from the other end of the bar for the moment.
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Yet here he was, standing at the bar, each hand gripping a pint glass , with all eyes on him.
pot
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For example, how do I get a quart of soup into a pint pot ?
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Yet, ironically, car production today is still being crammed into a pint pot .
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So you was always greeted with a drink out of this pint pot .
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For most gardeners, a garden is like a pint pot - you can not get a quart into it.
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Next to him, a hard-looking white youth stared gloomily into an almost-empty pint pot .
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His enormous arm went over Rory's head, the empty pint pot hanging in the smoke above the counter.
■ VERB
buy
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At the bar a leather-clad schoolboy was buying a pint of lager, served in a plastic beaker.
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He went right out and bought a pint of whisky to host me proper.
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We buy two pints of Taylor Walker and take them out on to the rear balcony.
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Lorton bought him a pint of Guinness and a whisky chaser.
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Lorton left the pub just as Viol bought himself a second pint .
drink
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Apparently, he drinks two pints of milk and, as soon as he feels drowsy, he drinks two pints of orange juice.
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Petersburg Times, drank a pint of gin a day.
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Apparently, he drinks two pints of milk and, as soon as he feels drowsy, he drinks two pints of orange juice.
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He said he had drunk eight to 10 pints of lager and some vodka and tonic, the court was told.
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On a Friday night he would drink a pint of lemonade at the bar.
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One member of the team must drink a pint of beer at the start and consume another four on the way.
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The court was told the airman had drunk seventeen pints of beer.
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Alcoholic Geoffrey Frederick Gregory was drinking up to 12 pints a day back in 1979.
order
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John ordered a pint of bitter and a sweet martini.
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As Harry squeezed through the ruck to order another pint , he could not suppress a private smile at Minter's expense.
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Crowds of people went out and a young clergyman came in and ordered a pint of bitter.
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So I ordered a pint of bitter, and then another.
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I knew he was perfect for me the first time I heard him order a pint of mild.
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I would order a pint of cold beer.
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I celebrated that night by ordering my first pint of beer and lighting up my first Woodbine.
pull
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He asked if he thought he could pull a pint , then hired him on the spot.
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Jack's pulling a pint and I nip into the loo.
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Jeane Russell brought his arm down as easily as a barmaid pulling a pint and dropped his hand into a burning ashtray.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a pint of milk
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And after some jokes, and a pint of beer, we stood up as we remembered.
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Born with a kidney defect, he needs up to 5 pints of liquid every day to stay fit and healthy.
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Cut the bottom off a four pint plastic milk container to make a free food scoop.
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He's more used to the communion wine than pulling pints.
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He said he had drunk eight to 10 pints of lager and some vodka and tonic, the court was told.
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He threw in a bucket of groundbait, a pint of maggots, and fished all night without a bite.
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It would appear that the rocker cover is becoming pressurised and oil consumption is approximately one pint per 150-200 miles.
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Tony, 47, who once admitted to drinking up to twelve pints a night, just can't resist a good time.