I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
demand
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His wife spent all their savings on paying ransom demands .
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What sort of kidnapping was this, with no ransom demand and no parents?
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Newley might have told Tolby about the ransom demand .
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I made the ransom demands , it said.
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There has been no ransom demand .
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The ransom demand was a deeper secret; only a few members of the police force knew of that.
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They are all about kidnapping and about ransom demands .
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The double Derby-winner is believed to have been killed after ransom demands were issued.
money
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Was the package or packet of ransom money bugged?
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Archbishop Prospero Penados del Barrio has charged that some political parties have financed their activities with ransom money .
note
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Police sources revealed earlier that the three-page ransom note had been handwritten on paper from a legal pad found in the home.
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What kind of kidnapper would sit down and write a three-page ransom note demanding a paltry $ 118, 000?
■ VERB
pay
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After all, only the Government has the money with which to pay a ransom .
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Reagan clung to the belief that he was not paying ransom but merely rewarding an intermediary for services rendered.
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His wife spent all their savings on paying ransom demands.
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He looked like a son of kings, one whose parents could pay a great ransom .
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Officials often complained that the victim of cattle theft preferred paying the ransom to instituting a court case.
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But sometimes I want to be pampered like royalty - without having to pay a king's ransom .
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Because Noddy won't pay the ransom .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a king's ransom
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After the families of the two men were contacted, the ransom was upped to $ 1 million.
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But dead men paid no ransoms.
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But sometimes I want to be pampered like royalty - without having to pay a king's ransom .
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I read the appeal in the newspapers for Madame V to come forward, but they said nothing about abduction or ransom .
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It wouldn't matter if you'd been promised a king's ransom if you achieved a lucky jump to the scorpion.
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Maybe the scarred man had suspected something and wanted a cut of the ransom .
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Note from Heron's Liberation Front demanding ransom for return of Gnome.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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North, carefully distracting Livingstone from the thought that hostages might have been ransomed for arms, gave him the Whole Picture.
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They were all ransomed and returned unharmed.
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We know that many among ourselves have given themselves to bondage that they might ransom others.