verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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building
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Now a state historic park, Fort Ross is a complex of reconstructed buildings situated on the headlands overlooking the ocean.
event
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He reconstructed the events as he imagined they had happened that evening in April.
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It makes extensive use of mock trials, simulations, and role-playing to reconstruct historical events .
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We had been studying all of the information we had collected in an effort to reconstruct the events of that operation.
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Relieved yet confused, I tried to reconstruct the actual event .
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So far as I can reconstruct events , I was gazing at the water jug when the exchange started.
history
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It is not possible to reconstruct a detailed history of Ine's reign but the indications are that he ruled with firmness.
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But the same kind of eclipse did not affect that other great area devoted to reconstructing the history of life: paleontology.
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Coin finds can help in reconstructing the economic history of this period.
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He also tries to reconstruct the history of representations in a completely different way.
life
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I reconstructed my life and all other women's in the light of male distortion and women's stolen potential.
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In order to reconstruct these lives , the techniques of ethnography are used.
■ VERB
try
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The palaeontologist is like a detective trying to reconstruct a full story from a few fragmentary clues.
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Relieved yet confused, I tried to reconstruct the actual event.
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Today they tried to reconstruct what they think might have been his movements before the disappearance.
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Write a noveL burn it, and then try to reconstruct it from memory. 9.
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It is, then, important to try to reconstruct monuments and understand them in their entirety.
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One of her cheekbones had been crushed and the doctors were trying to reconstruct it.
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Let me try and reconstruct what she looked like that day.
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Stevie and I are going to put our heads together to try and reconstruct them for Midge.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Kramer had several operations to reconstruct the bones in her leg.
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Police are trying to reconstruct the events of last Friday.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After all, the question of eliminating and reconstructing an identity in an electronic age is ripe with possibility.
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Grosvenor's speeches and writings make it possible to reconstruct his political views in considerable detail.
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Later, people spend hours reconstructing that brutal transition from the nowhere to the everywhere, when nature can destroy you.
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Mechanization, with all that it involves, is certainly able to distort, destroy and reconstruct many aspects of a civilization.
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Royalties earned from the publications have purchased land upon which students have reconstructed cabins and preserved cultural artifacts.
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Wasson said damage was less than anticipated, and the forms would be reconstructed.