I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a police raid (= a surprise visit made by the police to search for something illegal )
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Six people were arrested in a police raid on the bar.
air raid
bombing raids
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They were planning bombing raids in some of America’s major cities.
cross-border attack/raid
dawn raid
the police raid/storm a place
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The police raided his home and took his computer.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
armed
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Read in studio Police have released a photofit of a man they believe carried out an armed raid on an estate agents.
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This time it was the Leeds building society, again in Oxford, again it was an armed raid .
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An armed raid on a hospital was bound to cause an international outcry, particularly if we came out empty-handed.
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Jeanne requested an armed raid on the building to rescue the woman, but the group leader wouldn't hear of it.
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The armed raid in Gloucester was the second in the county.
bombing
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He remembers when schools were schools were closed for fear of catastrophic bombing raids in wartime Edinburgh and classes were spread among private houses.
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Targets for R.A.F. bombing raids were pin-pointed.
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Occasionally, a bombing raid or a battle does something to reduce the mass, but such incidents are hardly significant.
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He had been to Khenj, a village ten miles down the valley, to treat the survivors of a bombing raid .
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A group had decided to write about a bombing raid .
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Of the Wellingtons and Lancasters which went on hundreds of bombing raids during the war and of the men who never returned.
■ NOUN
air
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The success of their final run depended on a diversionary air raid .
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There were occasional air raids on Calcutta.
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The air raids were becoming heavier and more frequent.
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Suddenly the sharp, heavy squall of the air raid siren lashed the silence between them.
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Communications were no doubt temporarily dislocated: our jam-packed train had been halted during the night owing to an air raid in the region.
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During grammar school, I faint every time we have an air raid drill.
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A series of air raids resulted in a number of civilian casualties.
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One afternoon, after an air raid , one of the students asked me if I knew why the planes came.
bank
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Matthew Chieke was one of those charged with the bank raid , but that case never came to court.
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The officer, who carried on to arrest a man suspected of an attempted bank raid , was in hospital yesterday.
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It was Morgan's handling of the attempted bank raid a few days earlier in Cardiff which turned the trick.
commando
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The Commando raids , however, had been too unwieldy and had thus lacked the element of surprise.
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One evening the conversation turned to commando raids during the war.
dawn
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Almost his first action was a post-election dawn raid in July 1983 on departmental budgets.
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A dawn raid by about 200 heavily armed law officers bagged more than 30 members and associates of the white-supremacist prison gang.
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Read in studio Police have arrested twelve people, including a solicitor's clerk, in dawn raids .
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In any other part of the country, police would have apprehended the drug dealers in a series of dawn raids .
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The primary purpose of the SARs is to restrict the swift build-up of substantial stakes in a target company by dawn raids .
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Seven pistols were discovered under a bed in a dawn raid on a flat.
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They also recovered some stolen ammunition during a dawn raid on this flat in Notting Hill.
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The dawn raids happened less than a day after a Detective Sergeant was shot with a machine gun in Kent.
ram
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The van was probably going to be used in a ram raid .
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Police had given chase after foiling an attempted ram raid in Marlborough.
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Male speaker We're bound to consider that it was to be used in a ram raid offence.
■ VERB
bomb
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Thousands had died on the battlefields, in rearguard bombing raids and in repressive purges.
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In the first instance, he was saved by the fortuitous destruction of his papers in an Allied bombing raid .
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His operational flying looked as promising as his civilian flying had, until he went on a night bombing raid over Constantinople.
kill
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In 1985 several of Zero School's students were killed in an air raid .
launch
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For inveterate cattle-lifters it all added up to a convenient no-man's-land across which to launch thieving raids .
mount
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Theuderic, meanwhile, mounted a punitive raid against the Auvergne - ostentatiously avoiding the Burgundian campaign.
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It was therefore decided to mount a series of raids on the airfields in the Benghazi area.
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Both owners will be represented when Bolger mounts a strong raid on Newmarket this week.
stage
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Time allowed 00:15 Read in studio Police have staged an early morning raid in a bid to crack a stolen car racket.
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But my favorite has to be the Animal Liberation Front dorks who staged a daring raid on a mink farm.
steal
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Last year rare species worth half a million pounds pounds have been stolen in raids around the country.
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It's not the first time Birdland has been hit by thieves, last year parrots were stolen in a similar raid .
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They also left thousands of pounds worth of computer equipment which they had stolen in the raid on the Coulby Newham surgery.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
smash-and-grab raid/attack etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Raids are almost a nightly occurrence at this club.
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a surprise raid
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air-raid sirens
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As a teenager, he was involved in a raid against a village of Omaha Indians.
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Detectives managed to catch the gunman who had taken three hostages in a raid on a jeweller's shop.
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He led a commando raid in the desert.
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John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry
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NATO bombing raids
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Police have released a photo of a man they believe carried out a raid on a supermarket.
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Seven people were injured in last night's police raid on a house in Brixton, South London.
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Sixty people are thought to have been killed in the raid on the village just west of the capital.
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Some of the most beautiful architecture in the city was destroyed in the air raids.
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The law will limit corporate raids on company pension funds.
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The police accused the woman of planning a huge armed bank raid in Scotland.
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Zavala led a series of raids on marijuana plantations.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Another favourite pastime was planning raids on the various apartments and cars owned by their friends.
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Harvard Securities organised a surprise raid on the premises of Tudorbury's new sharedealing floor shortly after its inception.
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He used to sleep in the church during air raids so that he could put out the fire bombs.
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The smooth-talking Noye was given a 14-year sentence for laundering cash from the Brinks-Mat raid .
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The United States reacted to the air raids by ordering an aircraft carrier to the gulf.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
home
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Two robbers raided their home in the Chisamba region and shot the couple.
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For the 87 year old, it was the second time thieves have raided her home .
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In December 1996 investigators raided his home outside Munich.
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But they were staggered by the size of the haul when officers raided 30 homes yesterday.
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When officers raided his home , they found 11 gold bars in his lounge.
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Eight policemen and welfare workers had raided their home - even searching dustbins for Alex.
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They raided his home on January 7 and seized a nine-page list detailing 272 titles called Editman's Horror List.
house
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Burglars strike: Intruders raided a house in Northallerton.
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In the months that followed, security agents raided the houses of writers and broke up meetings.
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The case was adjourned for reports Hens raid: Thieves raided a hen house in Ripon.
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Investigators raid a house looking for missing gold coins and platinum bars.
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Early morning swoop ... police raid a house in Kirkdale today.
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Every so often, the police would raid a house or bar, but who was arrested?
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Two days later, the Army raided a house in the Lower Falls where they found a collection of arms.
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Armed police raided her house early on Wednesday.
police
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The police would raid our flats.
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Every so often, the police would raid a house or bar, but who was arrested?
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Early morning swoop ... police raid a house in Kirkdale today.
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The police raided the Congress party headquarters in Bombay where salt was being made in pans on the roof.
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The crack troops' annual knees-up became so rowdy, police were forced to raid it.
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Armed police raided her house early on Wednesday.
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The police raided the sewers and the network of passages underneath the capital and brought the children to the surface.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Again, the tribe had raided a neighbouring village, inflicting many casualties.
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In 1943, allied bombers repeatedly raided Hamburg.
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Police raided a pirate video factory in Glendale.
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Police officers raided a house in North London last night, and found substantial quantities of illegal drugs.
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The Casino nightclub has been closed since it was raided last month.
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The rebels raided the tiny mountain town early on Tuesday.
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Thieves raided an Italian villa that housed a number of valuable paintings.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A little later, when bankers tried to become retailers of financial services, they raided consumer-goods marketeers.
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At the worst possible moment a brigand named Babbitt raided the shore of Philadelphia from a commandeered ship.
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But before that they used to raid .
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In the months that followed, security agents raided the houses of writers and broke up meetings.
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Police raided its founding conference at a Casablanca hotel, where 40 people were arrested and cautioned.
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Sadie would raid the bins for scraps when she could - perhaps her diet of rabbits needed to be supplemented.
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Warriors now know nothing of war and cattle raiding.