I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a rescue attempt
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Two firefighters were hurt in the rescue attempt.
a rescue plan (= a plan for saving a company, economy etc )
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Which rescue plan offers the company the best prospects of survival?
a rescue team
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He was in the water for two hours before a rescue team arrived.
a research/rescue/health etc worker
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Rescue workers searched the rubble all night looking for survivors.
mountain rescue (= people who help people who are in difficulty on a mountain )
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Mountain rescue teams were called out to search for the missing climbers.
rescue sb/sth from obscurity (= to stop someone or something from being forgotten )
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He was rescued from obscurity by Alder's brilliant biography in 1985.
rescue/diplomatic/fact-finding etc mission
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a group of US congressmen on a fact-finding mission to Northern Ireland
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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attempt
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General Lekhanya said he shot the man in an attempt to rescue a woman in distress.
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Carter also gave a go-ahead for a military attempt to rescue the hostages.
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But increasingly Waite had become involved in his attempts to rescue hostages held in the Middle East.
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This study is not an attempt to rescue from oblivion a poet whom critical attention has neglected.
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The father continued the suicide attempt but he was rescued by police.
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The Falangists had made a number of attempts to rescue Primo de Rivera from prison, all of which had failed.
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The first attempt to rescue Nature's diversity began in 1828.
child
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She and her husband rescued their three children from their blazing home with seconds to spare early yesterday.
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He tried to rescue the other five children , but the flames forced him back.
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They later stormed the house and rescued the child - but missed their prey.
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It is her aim to rescue children from the bleak existences of orphanages and hospitals.
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But Zeus rescued her unborn child , sewed it up in his own thigh, and brought it forth afterwards.
economy
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It is likely to be the last chance to rescue the economy from chaos.
friend
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He lay on the track for five minutes before being rescued by two friends who were also out riding.
girl
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Hercules agreed to rescue the girl if her father would give him the horses Zeus had given his grandfather.
hostage
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But increasingly Waite had become involved in his attempts to rescue hostages held in the Middle East.
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Carter also gave a go-ahead for a military attempt to rescue the hostages .
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President Carter displayed considerable restraint in the crisis until an attempt was made in April 1980 to rescue the hostages by force.
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Carter ordered the Pentagon to prepare a contingency plan for military action to rescue the hostages .
man
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They rescued the man who later died.
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In Antrim police had to rescue a man from a hostile crowd when he was pulled from his car.
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In eight or nine rounds the referee should be stepping in to rescue the younger man , unless he is knocked out.
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A doctor attempted to rescue the men and was killed by the fumes.
mission
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Their mission is to rescue friendly foreigners from unfriendly territory.
woman
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General Lekhanya said he shot the man in an attempt to rescue a woman in distress.
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It was a deliberate lie on the part of regulationists to accuse repealers of having no desire to rescue women from prostitution.
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I once had a thank you for rescuing a woman who had a baby in Woodstock.
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Their task was to rescue a seriously injured woman who'd fallen several hundred feet in difficult weather conditions.
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The plan had been to locate and rescue a seriously injured woman .
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She'd rescued this woman - his aunt presumably - from her crashed car, and gone for help.
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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.
worker
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He stepped into it and was dragged away by two rescue workers whose ankles were barely covered by the water.
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As darkness fell, rescue workers with flashlights began recovering and identifying bodies.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Firefighters worked for two hours to rescue people who were trapped in the bus.
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She was rescued from her underpaid factory job by a movie director searching for new talent.
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We were rescued from the sinking ship by a passing fishing boat.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And how do we rescue particular places, or should we leave them to decay?
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Carter also gave a go-ahead for a military attempt to rescue the hostages.
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Increased rates of operative delivery are not necessarily bad if genuinely compromised babies are rescued from death and damage.
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Smiling feebly, Mundin stood silent just when I needed him to bring in the cavalry and rescue my besieged story.
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Time for college basketball to rescue us.
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Twenty one pensioners had to be rescued by boat from their sheltered accommodation.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
animal
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Read in studio An animal rescue centre that cares for sick and injured wildlife may have to close because of the recession.
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On site there's an environmental museum and an animal rescue centre.
attempt
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One fireman was severely burned in a rescue attempt .
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But many seals and otters are now dying on inaccessible rocks and today's high winds are preventing any rescue attempt .
boat
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A crash attracted the attention of the rescue boats , and the cameras.
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Try to sail in a location offering safety cover - a rescue boat to pick you up if you get into trouble.
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Then it seems the rescue boat itself crashed, throwing Mr Hill into the water for a second time.
centre
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Read in studio An animal rescue centre that cares for sick and injured wildlife may have to close because of the recession.
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On site there's an environmental museum and an animal rescue centre .
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Sanctuary appeal: Scarborough wildlife leader Jim Ward has launched an appeal to create a rescue centre .
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Read in studio A wildlife rescue centre has cancelled an invitation to Princess Michael of Kent because she hunts.
effort
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Initial rescue efforts were hampered by a lack of heavy equipment and by landslides triggered by the initial earthquake.
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He was found after a six-hour rescue effort .
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A LOW-FLYING duck was fatally injured in Darlington yesterday despite the rescue efforts of shopworkers.
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Y., resident still limps from a bullet wound suffered days after his rescue effort .
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It is covered with enlarged images of the explosion, the rescue efforts and the implosion.
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I reported the drop to Warton and asked what was happening with the rescue efforts .
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Search and rescue efforts were hampered Friday by rain and heavy seas.
helicopter
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Highlight of the day was a 20 minute flight in one of the rescue helicopters .
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He was struck there for four hours with Park Service rescue helicopters buzzing around, throwing him ropes.
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A rescue helicopter was scrambled after his empty dinghy was spotted floating out to sea.
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The rescue helicopter strewed thousands of blossoms on the waters of the Bay.
mission
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They had already tried to get him to mount a rescue mission using his ship.
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No staggering lines formed at rescue missions .
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A desperate rescue mission was launched.
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He hit upon a rescue mission for himself: freedom bonds.
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But social service officials have warned that even if this latest rescue mission is successful the children could face long-term emotional problems.
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Intermittent radio failure on board the boat also hampered the rescue mission .
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He believes rescue missions should be carefully planned but do serve a purpose.
mortgage
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His only chance of avoiding a council bed and breakfast hostel is a mortgage rescue scheme.
mountain
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We scrambled out of our tents shouting excitedly, straight into the pools of torchlight coming from the mountain rescue team.
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This is a theme echoed by John Allen, leader of the Cairngorms mountain rescue team.
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More than 100 rescuers including doctors, mountain rescue teams and other skiers, clawed at the snow.
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This body acts as a guide to all mountain rescue teams.
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Four-year-old Oscar went racing into the darkness as his owners helped make hot drinks for mountain rescue teams.
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I was told that in Britain the weather has to be really dire before a mountain rescue search is called off.
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I've been involved in the mountain rescue world for 14 years.
operation
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Divers alert: A major rescue operation was launched yesterday after two divers were reported missing off Redcar.
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After searching two days for the body, authorities called off the rescue operation .
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He merely flew into the airport, where the military rescue operation was being organized.
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Indeed, the entire rescue operation seems to have proceeded at a glacial pace.
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Fortunately a small group of folk banded together determined to save the bird and the rescue operation began.
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This was the command center for the dangerous rescue operation of ValuJet Flight 592.
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This rescue operation proved reasonably successful, as shown by Table 11.4.
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Some sites are so important that it may be necessary for a rescue operation on an international scale.
package
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Earlier, Kok said he wanted Daimler-Benz to contribute more to a rescue package for the aircraft maker.
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He is set to front a new rescue package , with a mystery backer ready to invest a substantial sum.
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Newcastle have £6m worth, and are hoping that Sir John's proposed rescue package helps them out.
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The answer may be one or both of these and only a careful rescue package can avert a total disaster.
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The £10m they have pledged towards a £13m rescue package has yet to materialise.
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Lilley asked to be put into receivership after a financial rescue package did not receive full support from its bankers.
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One of the fastest-growing companies of the 1980s, the now-ailing Saatchi &038; Saatchi, announced a second financial rescue package .
party
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She explained the need to raise an immediate rescue party and return to Great Ararat.
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The rescue party of volunteers decided on a different solution.
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Officially you are all going to be victims of a surprise attack on the rescue party by the native inhabitants.
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And just outside the garden I ran into this rescue party coming out to find me.
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Either they would send a rescue party , or they would adhere to quarantine regulations and he would be marooned on Tarvaras.
plan
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Only eight weeks into the job, Mr Gerstner is still concocting a rescue plan .
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Without a working budget, or a viable rescue plan , the organization continued its disastrous descent into the financial sinkhole.
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If the situation is not resolved within months, the rescue plan might cease to be viable.
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In November 1808 ten of her friends met in London to formulate a rescue plan .
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He set about drawing up a rescue plan amid a political storm that resulted in the resignation of two cabinet ministers.
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Members have also rejected a £6.7m rescue plan .
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The banks have been given only two more days to agree to support the receiver's rescue plan .
scheme
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His only chance of avoiding a council bed and breakfast hostel is a mortgage rescue scheme .
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Mortgage rescue schemes are an important part of that initiative.
sea
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At least Eline had learned that there had been no fatalities during the sea rescue though one or two men had been injured.
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A full air sea rescue was put into operation, involving St Mary's lifeboat and a helicopter from Valley.
service
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We know for a fact that the area was sealed off and that army and rescue services were called to the scene.
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She'd been counting on rescue services arriving with the dawn, but maybe they wouldn't be coming after all.
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The rescue services have more important things to do than look for windsurfers who are comfortably seated in the bar!
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The union acts as an industry police force and a rescue service for its members.
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Being in the vicinity, I helped remove the casualty's kit before ditching my own in order to phone the rescue services .
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He gave warning that centralising the rescue service as planned by the Government, had to affect response time.
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It is the first time aviation experts and the rescue services have held a joint conference on the importance of working together.
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The rescue service works like this: You are given a reference number and a free phone number when you register.
ship
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Vicki is praying that the rescue ship she knows is on its way will arrive in time to save them all.
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The rescue ship , full of supplies, was in sight!
team
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About the immense difficulty that would undoubtedly be experienced by rescue teams .
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Volunteers play a vital role on the water rescue team , Fonder said.
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The local coast rescue team used ropes to pull them away from danger after the alarm was raised.
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A helicopter rescue team found her barely off the trail and only about a quarter-mile from the top of El Capitan.
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The search and rescue team have been out looking for you.
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Members of the rescue team were elated when they landed at Scapa Pier near Kirkwall last night.
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We scrambled out of our tents shouting excitedly, straight into the pools of torchlight coming from the mountain rescue team .
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The New Brighton-based rescue team plucked five people from the water when the incident happened near Seacombe.
work
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Because of business commitments he's cut down on his rescue work .
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I think of it as rescue work .
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Repression through fear, combined with rescue work for the fallen, was no longer enough.
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The delay in starting rescue work has had one welcome effect.
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If the meticulous and demanding rescue work succeeds, birdwatchers using the hide will be in for a treat.
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Writing is your imagination's rescue work .
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Another factor in the slowing of the rescue work was the condition of the air in which the men had to work.
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While hard-pressed police were occupied in rescue work , the heartless thieves descended on local shopping centres.
worker
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The driver, from Kempsey near Worcester, had jumped clear and was found by rescue workers .
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There are also two people who served as rescue workers after the Oklahoma City bombing.
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Before the car could be moved, rescue workers had to shore up the building, which was in danger of collapse.
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Ginter was unconscious when rescue workers loaded him on to a stretcher.
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Could Sandra please not say a word to anyone, not even the women or the other rescue workers ?
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But Tuesday afternoon rescue workers were still searching the rubble, cordoned off by dozens of uniformed soldiers and police.
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The immediate priority for rescue workers is to reach the millions of people still stranded.
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The woman, who spotted the boy in trouble, yelled to him to sit still while she called rescue workers .
■ VERB
call
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Breeze tried next, but failed, so Chignell had to be called to the rescue .
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After searching two days for the body, authorities called off the rescue operation.
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I mean, did Gephardt call for making the rescue of the environment the central organizing principle for civilization?
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We must even be judicious when hiking though the outback, where objects sometimes call out for rescue .
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The woman, who spotted the boy in trouble, yelled to him to sit still while she called rescue workers.
come
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Lady Dorman-Smith, the wife of the Governor, came to our rescue with two generous gifts of money.
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Once again, Ashputtel sang her song for the birds; once again they came to her rescue .
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Alberto has come to the rescue with One Step, a great new two-in-one shampoo and conditioner.
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Lorenzini comes to the rescue but demands custody of Pinocchio in return.
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In theory, the Tory constituency parties could come to the rescue .
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The thirty-day rule comes to the rescue for thirty days.
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In theory, the law should come to your rescue .
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Chief Black Elk, who welcomed Mormon trade, came to the rescue by offering squatting rights.
help
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In 1982 they called on Mr Morton to help rescue Guinness Peat, which was close to collapse.
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Like the others, he is expected to help rescue survivors and then turn himself back in.
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Also, people volunteer to help rescue a child trapped in a well and to help in other rescues.
ride
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He had ridden to her rescue like a knight on a white charger and now he was insulting her.
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If it isn't, heaven knows who will ride to the rescue of the firm.
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So poor old Pater rode to the rescue once again.
run
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And just outside the garden I ran into this rescue party coming out to find me.
rush
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People rushed to her rescue , picked her up.
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Perhaps he could retire injured so that Rachel would rush to his rescue .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Alberto has come to the rescue with One Step, a great new two-in-one shampoo and conditioner.
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Assume that a duty of care is owed by A to C as a rescue was reasonably foreseeable in the circumstances.
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But Tuesday afternoon rescue workers were still searching the rubble, cordoned off by dozens of uniformed soldiers and police.
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Glenn Chamberlain said from the rescue center in Halifax.
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Royal Humane Society, founded in 1774 for the rescue of persons from drowning, and the recovery of dead bodies.
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So far, the rescue seems to have succeeded, at little cost to the lenders.
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Then it seems the rescue boat itself crashed, throwing Mr Hill into the water for a second time.