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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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radio
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That's our very own pirate radio .
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Unfortunately Phil had unwittingly chosen a bad time to clash with the pirate radio vessel.
ship
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Then, by a very unlucky chance, we were seen and chased by two pirate ships .
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Often George came in at five o'clock in the morning to hammer away at the pirate ship in the carpenter's shop.
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He had heard reports of a pirate ship in Black Hill Cove and had come looking for the pirates.
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Oo ar, Jim me lad, it's cut-and-thrust duelling on board the pirate ship Corky!
station
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The pirate station , which ran aground last November, is using equipment and records donated by listeners.
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Illegal pirate stations , operating on locally-free channels and low-power transmitters already fill part of this gap.
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All pirate stations , such as ours, have to close at the end of December.
video
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Time allowed 00:21 Read in studio Detectives have seized around five hundred suspected pirate videos in a joint operation with copyright investigators.
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More than 1, 000 pirate videos and 63 video recorders were also seized.
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Inside the home were pirate videos , hundreds of blank cassettes and cassette casings, they said.
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The agency has maintained an anti-piracy hotline and offers $ 2, 500 for information that leads to a pirate video lab.
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About a third of all pirate video raids are discovered through the hotline, she said.
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A two-hour boat trip will take you to Lundy Island, once famous for its pirates and now for its puffins.
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But there may be pirates hiding among them.
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Happy Computing could have its own problem with pirates.
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Instead, park officials announced Friday, the pirates will run after women who carry trays of food.
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Monarchs pretended to close their eyes to it while they shared the loot and then honored the pirate heroes.
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More pirates were starting to climb into the stockade.
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Terror-stricken, the pirates ordered the helmsman to put in to land.
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Will convinces the pair not to eat them, but instead join forces in the hunt for the pirates and their captives.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But the head of a coalition opposing the bill said laws already on the books outlaw electronic pirating.
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Lotus had charged Borland with pirating its commands for use in a competing program.
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Muddying the issue of how much pirated software is on the Internet is the tremendous amount of software legally available to download.
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The suit claims Apple pirated key elements of Xerox software for its Lisa and Macintosh user interfaces.
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They were also widely pirated, Rowe notes, depriving Fly of some earnings.