verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
give/preach/deliver a sermon (on sth)
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The vicar gave a sermon on charity.
preach/spread the gospel (= tell people about it )
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Missionaries were sent to preach the Gospel.
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gospel stories
spread/preach the gospel
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spreading the gospel of science
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
choir
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Not only was he preaching to the choir , he was talking to tax-cutting evangelists.
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He is preaching to the choir of religious-right Protestants and conservative Catholics whose votes should already be locked up.
church
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Rome has more churches and less preaching in them than any city in the world.
doctrine
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In the first place, it was quite useless to preach ready made doctrine to them.
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He later preached good doctrine and set the colonists to building a church.
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They preached the pure doctrine and pure life that Puritans had cherished ever since they formed under Elizabeth and chafed under James.
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It preaches the doctrine that individuals should be allowed to do anything they wish unfettered by social conventions.
gospel
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This means a goal of thirty viable gospel preaching churches in our town and twelve in Cranham alone.
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However, it was not long before the Gospel preached by Richard Baxter began to change her life.
message
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The first sermon she preached reiterated the message .
minister
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Wolsey even has his ministers preach peace sermons in London.
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Pentecostals love this story and their ministers frequently preach on it, for two reasons.
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These were the things our minister preached to us every Sunday of my early life.
sermon
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The sermon he preached was scholarly, and explained why he had been called to this well-found charge and to the chaplaincy.
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The emotional setting in which sermons could be preached was made possible by a sympathetic audience: indeed, reciprocity was essential.
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Patriot Patrick Henry liked to drop by to hear the recruiting sermons Davies preached , in order to learn oratory.
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The first sermon she preached reiterated the message.
virtue
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He may preach the virtues of an empty bank account, but Damon is fairly obsessed with filling his own.
■ VERB
begin
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In 1869 he sold his business and began preaching throughout Britain.
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After a couple of years, Philip began to preach on the streets of post-Renaissance Rome.
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He then began preaching Wycliffite views to enthusiastic congregations in and near the town.
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The rector began spontaneously to preach one of the most electrifying sermons of his career.
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Frequently the visitors were so numerous they could not fit into the house, so Seymour began preaching from the porch.
continue
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Two years later he received an order of excommunication and ignored that too in that he continued to preach .
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Nevertheless Seymour continued to preach and testify at black missions in Houston where he eventually met a woman named Neely Terry.
hear
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In those days there was little opportunity to hear Gospel preaching in Shropshire.
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She heard Cotton preach two covenants.
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Two Sundays back, I heard Sithole preach .
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They would have preferred to hear him preach his Lenten sermons on the necessity of self-discipline and the importance of fasting.
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Richard Baxter was preaching in Alcester one Sunday in September 1642 when the sound of distant canon fire was heard .
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The next candidate, Richard Baxter, was unanimously chosen the first time they heard him preach .
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How can they hear without some one preaching to them?
practice
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However, we don't always practice what we preach .
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Ulene tries to practice what he preaches , jogging and eating a low-fat diet.
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It's too easy to inadvertently fail to practice what we preach .
practise
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It is a good thing he practises what he preaches .
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I just wanted to see if he practised what he preached .
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The paper would practise what it preached .
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In most areas of life, he tries to practise what he preaches .
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It is also important to practise what you preach .
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The tight control on public sector pay is crucial and underlines the fact that the Government intends to practise what it preaches .
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And Scott the rapier-slim rapper backs up this message by practising what he preaches .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
practise what you preach
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And Scott the rapier-slim rapper backs up this message by practising what he preaches.
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Both Johnson and Lady Macleod found the book wanting, her objection being that the author did not practise what he preached.
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I just wanted to see if he practised what he preached.
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In most areas of life, he tries to practise what he preaches.
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It is a good thing he practises what he preaches.
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It is also important to practise what you preach.
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The paper would practise what it preached.
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The tight control on public sector pay is crucial and underlines the fact that the Government intends to practise what it preaches.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Mom, stop preaching - I'm old enough to take care of myself.
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You're always preaching honesty, and then you lie to me.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After completing his studies, in which he excelled in philosophy and theology, he was ordained and was assigned to preaching.
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Campaigns that have merely preached abstinence have always failed.
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Gordon was preaching the morality of scholarship.
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He also preached at Blackfriars on Sundays and a mid-week lecture in Milk Street.
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His jailers realized that his ransom would exceed those of the other prisoners, so Raymond was continuously tortured for preaching.
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How couldst thou preach of heaven and hell in such a careless, sleepy manner?
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In those days there was little opportunity to hear Gospel preaching in Shropshire.
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Renaissance humanism preached respect for the greatness of the human being as an individual: it stressed personal intelligence and ability.