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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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local
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It took a long time to bring the fire under control, the local pubs kept open for three days and nights.
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Extinction might be expected to occur if your local pub stopped selling your favourite drink.
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Up for a game of darts at the local pub ?
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By the time they arrived Davidson, 38, had gone to his local pub at Ewhurst, Surrey.
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Teka has become a regular at her local pub .
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Flooding affected two roads, nearby homes and local pubs .
old
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There are several old pubs sited around the centre of the town.
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If that was its method of discouraging tourists in their search for quaint old London pubs , it was highly successful.
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An old pub with beamed ceilings, smoke-blackened, and a log fire crackling and spitting inside a deep alcove.
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Bannerman's Bar Old worlde pub in heart of the told town.
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From Thaxted we went to a lovely old thatched pub called the Ashtree at Burton End.
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The pressure to remodel old pubs is of course nothing new.
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What gossip might he learn in the old Nell Gwyn pub down the end of the King's Road?
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Holyrood Tavern A completely refurbished tavern which still retains much of the character of the old pub .
traditional
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Drinkers Plan: The traditional pub crawl doesn't have to be another dreary Friday night wander.
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Her husband Ian says traditional pubs - without loud music - are still an attraction and meeting place for locals.
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In just six months a new Hardys &038; Hansons traditional style pub will have been built on the spot.
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They fear plans to widen the availability of alcohol licenses could see off many traditional pubs .
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Why can we not be told? - why are we losing the heritage of so many traditional pubs ?
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And they fear it could mean the end of traditional pubs .
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Enjoy a traditional pub lunch or go shopping in familiar named stores in the busy Main Street.
■ NOUN
country
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We were going to a country pub for lunch.
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Voice over Landlords say they're increasingly serving more food than drink, especially in country pubs .
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It was supposed to be a romantic evening at a remote country pub .
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But a country pub is where I'd really like to cook.
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This is a landscape of church towers, thatch roofs and cider orchards with welcoming country pubs .
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It was the free-standing sort that might have stood outside a country pub .
crawl
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Drinkers Plan: The traditional pub crawl doesn't have to be another dreary Friday night wander.
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The last bar on my pub crawl is the most contentious.
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But it was more than just a pub crawl .
village
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Five minutes later he saw the lights of a village pub .
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A VILLAGE pub landlord looks set to leave his business because of crippling rent rises.
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The village pub attached to the hotel has bar lunches of salmon pâté on wholemeal toast.
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During a lunch break I sat with him in a village pub where he put away a few pints.
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And the local village pub is also looking forward to welcoming the new customers.
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They went to the village pub for lunch.
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The ground was situated within sight of the village pub .
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The Sheep Heid A delightful village pub with traditions going back to the eighteenth-century.
■ VERB
drink
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Herbie never drank at the pub .
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He still enjoyed returning to his roots, drinking in the pub with old mates or taking his Ma to the Odeon.
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It's thought they may have been drinking in this pub on Wellingborough road earlier in the evening.
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As Polly got older she had begun to find it safer to drink only in the pub .
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I'd just turned on to York Way when I spotted the two city gents who'd been drinking in the pub .
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The group had been drinking at a nearby pub in Uckington, Glos.
go
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He used to take me to smashing places, had a super car, we'd go to these posh pubs .
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Metcalf had taken the weekend off from work and gone to a pub with her sister.
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He had decided not to go straight home, or to go to the pub yet.
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He would definitely go to the pub later, he decided.
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I go to a pub across the road to await the 10.19.
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The shops had shut and people were wandering around arm in arm and going into pubs and restaurants.
leave
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Then as Parratt left the pub he punched his fist through a pane of glass in the door.
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Now the beer is ready for the final stage in the brewery before it leaves for the pub cellar.
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It was just the two of them left in the pub .
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Mr Smith said Mr Curren had since left the pub and Spanswick had not been in touch with him since the incident.
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Male speaker It's a good idea, because the residents are often asked to leave other pubs .
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When Bob and Terry left the pub , they went straight to Terry's sister's flat.
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There was an Audi which passed me soon after I'd left the pub .
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I believe now the driver - I didn't see who it was - was checking that I had left the pub .
meet
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He sometimes had to disappear to the lavatory several times when they met in a pub or café.
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She'd meet him in a pub called the Camden Head, at nine.
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By December the team were meeting in the pub , ready for the birthday in April.
run
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My father was a ferrier and ran the pub and business together.
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Mr Speight was married with two young children and ran a pub in Farsley, Leeds.
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The families which ran the pubs were closely related to the rest of the community.
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Less outrageous alternative careers included medicine, law, cooking, running a pub and a life on the buses.
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He was expected to slip into management with ease, but instead Moore moved into business, running a pub .
visit
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Under such circumstances the frequency with which you visited the pub would be likely to decrease gradually over time.
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The brewery employs people to visit its pubs anonymously to quantify the effects of these charters.
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They visited pubs all over the country, immersing themselves in pub culture - playing darts and drinking with the lads.
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I visited the pub several times during that year, but the newspaper hadn't yet been published.
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Entire families were prisoners because of quarantine regulations, schools were closed and farm folk forbidden to visit pubs .
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Less than one in two women visits a pub regularly, compared with two-thirds of men.
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Nicola fancies Andrew when he visits the pub .
walk
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A woman has been attacked and raped by two men as she walked home from a pub .
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That night as we walked past the pub next door to the hotel we heard a band playing 60s songs.
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He needed to walking into a pub like the Old Sydney.
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He was walking home from the pub through Swindon town centre when two police officers approached him.
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You'd walk into a pub in one and, Whoop! some one wanted to try it on.
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As we walked into the pub , the landlord was slouching over the bar reading a newspaper.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After dinner they had walked in the grounds as a threesome before Lee had suggested another trip to the pub .
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If the plans get the go-ahead the Inn will become a hotel, pub and nightclub with a restaurant and cocktail bar.
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The pub was a pullulating stew of people, swelling and bubbling behind a screen of smoke.
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The development of pub retailing has shown a corrective instinct for seeking to set a purpose built business in the right location.
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The nearest centre with camping, chip shops, pubs etc is St Just, five miles south down the B3306.
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Tired of tiptoeing through your neighbour's tulips after a heavy night down the pub ?