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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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home
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Most mortgage lenders stress that they are not keen to repossess homes .
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This reluctance of lenders to repossess homes owes little to sentiment: few lenders want to sell assets into a falling market.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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His car was eventually repossessed by the auto loan agency.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A hundred thousand homes have been repossessed so far this year.
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Figures released by the Council of Mortgage Lenders last week show that about 80,000 homes were repossessed by lenders in 1991.
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He or his collection agent will try to repossess everything you own.
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Marsh had spent some of the money on buying a Jaguar, followed by a Porsche which had now been repossessed.
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Most mortgage lenders stress that they are not keen to repossess homes.
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Most of the money is owed by people whose homes have been repossessed and sold for less than their outstanding mortgage.
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The champagne corks popped but then the reporter told us the house had been repossessed.
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This reluctance of lenders to repossess homes owes little to sentiment: few lenders want to sell assets into a falling market.