I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a cash reserve formal (= an amount of spare money that you have available to use )
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Experts always advise people to build up a cash reserve.
book/reserve a seat
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You can book seats online.
book/reserve a table (= in a restaurant )
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I've booked a table for four at a local restaurant.
book/reserve a ticket
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We booked our tickets well in advance.
game reserve
gas reserves (= a supply of gas kept to be used when it is needed )
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Norway has far greater gas reserves than the UK.
nature reserve
reserve judgment (= not decide your opinion before you have all the facts )
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Why don't you reserve judgment until you have finished the book?
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
area
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The Commission recognises that to achieve this objective it is necessary to reserve certain areas exclusively to the national postal administrations.
judgment
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Three appeal court judges reserved judgment .
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I think people should reserve judgment .
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Professor Furmston said he would reserve judgment until next week.
numbers
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The third column, which she had reserved for telephone numbers , was so far entirely blank.
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It appears that about 250, 000 holders of 800 numbers will want to reserve 888 numbers, Way said.
place
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They pushed and shoved, reaching through the carriage windows to reserve places by laying their scarves along the bench.
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If you have not already reserved a place , please do so soon.
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Please make the appropriate arrangements to reserve places .
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Phone in advance to reserve your place - it cost £10 per day.
right
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The editor reserves the right to edit letters.
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I save my clients when I can, but I reserve the right of selective salvation.
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The Editor reserves the right to abridge letters to suit the space available.
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No wonder princes had so long reserved the right to murder with impunity.
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The purchaser should reserve the express right to pay the creditors directly out of the retention on behalf of the vendor.
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Nevertheless, it is good practice to reserve such rights expressly.
room
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The reservation fee is not security for not showing up, it is a payment for reserving the room .
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You can reserve a room , too.
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He reserved two rooms in the name James Gage and arranged to meet Paula in the dining-room.
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A clerk told him the number of his reserved room , and handed a bellboy the key.
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The hotel receives a letter from Mr and Mrs Jones who wish to reserve a double room with bath from 7-14 June.
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He reserved a room , and said he would be there in about half an hour.
seat
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Seat Reservations On all TransPennine services you are advised to reserve your seat in advance to ensure a comfortable journey.
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The Fat Controller had reserved good seats at the front of the stalls.
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It asked us to reserve our seats as soon as possible for this famous work by Shakespeare.
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But none of you has any choice because you all have reserved seats .
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Each day her youngsters have to reserve a seat at the table and no prior reservation means no meal.
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I must say it was an awful lot of rot, although we had reserved seats ....
space
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The idea is to reserve the precious parking spaces that car owners spend hours digging out of the snow.
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He had seats for forty thousand, who paid a minimum admission of twenty-five cents but more for reserved space .
table
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To reserve a table for £5 call.
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That evening he reserved the most popular table at Chez Jacques in their name.
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They are shown to their reserved table .
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Admission is free and anyone who would like to reserve a table should call.
ticket
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Seating for the show is reserved , with tickets priced at $ 14 and $ 16.
use
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If reserved for his personal use , it might put him at a certain advantage over his employer.
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Until the 1890s, the garden was reserved for the exclusive use of either the monarch or selected courtiers.
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It is reserved for use as a children's play area.
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When duck is tender, spoon off as much of the extra fat as possible, reserving for another use .
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It would therefore appear that the only mechanism for ensuring that land is reserved is by the use of conditions.
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Dougal noticed that her cup was cracked; the best cup was reserved for visitors.
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I save my clients when I can, but I reserve the right of selective salvation.
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Return reserved onions and eggplant to pan along with all remaining ingredients.
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She performed her duties faithfully, reserving to herself the most menial tasks.
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To reserve a table for £5 call.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
existing
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Better technology should help both to recover more gas from existing reserves and also to make new areas accessible.
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The business plan's solution is to transfer existing reserves set against pre-1986 liabilities into a central pot.
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Mr Rowland reckons existing reserves for pre-1986 liabilities may total £4 billion-5 billion.
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This may come from existing reserves , bank facilities, a rights issue or a cash underwritten alternative.
foreign
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By mid-1989 foreign exchange reserves were estimated to be sufficient to cover only two months of imports.
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For, in a decade in which internal debt has grown, foreign reserves have fallen.
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Billions of pounds have been wiped off share values and removed from foreign exchange reserves this week.
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Global surpluses can likewise be meaningless to the dozens of poor nations that have overwhelming demands placed on slim foreign exchange reserves .
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Government figures indicated that total foreign exchange reserves stood at only US$14,750,000.
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Growth this year is estimated at 4 %, and exports and foreign currency reserves are up.
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Inflation and unemployment are up; foreign reserves , fuel supplies and political trust are down.
gold
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The Soviet Union's gold reserves were named as support.
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So the insufficiency of gold reserves resulted from higher volume of trade, not higher prices.
great
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These statements must be treated with great reserve .
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The coal and petroleum are the great reserves of fossil fuels that we have relied on to power our industrial societies.
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When that goes, he hasn't great reserves of fitness with which to compensate.
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Dulles held that the United States should counter that strategy by maintaining a great strategic reserve in the United States.
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It has large reserves and is now backed by the great reserves of Hong Kong.
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Our family always was known for its great reserve .
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First of all, of course, great reserves of strength and stamina.
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Still, Lawrence delivers the entire program with great reserves of power and an extraordinary sense of legato.
large
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The latter are all part of large conglomerates with large reserves which can be employed to see the industry through the recession.
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Sunnyvale was starting with large reserves , and its total budget was only $ 125 million.
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It has large reserves and is now backed by the great reserves of Hong Kong.
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Some units will be maintained at full strength; others will rely on large numbers of reserves .
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In fact, there are indications that the Louisiana leg may contain larger reserves than the western leg in Texas.
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Effective deployment of the larger reserves which this system made available required intricate staff work.
national
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The 325-acre fen, headwaters of the Waveney river, will be designated a national nature reserve .
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The drought has already set one project, a national food reserve , back by at least a year.
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Of seven national reserves , four are suffering continual damage: 1.
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The southern tip is designated as a national nature reserve .
natural
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It said it will use the net proceeds to acquire long-life natural gas reserves and exploit development opportunities.
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He had an innocent manner about him too, and he had made her feel at ease despite her natural reserve .
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His uncertainty with strangers is nothing like Juanita's, more the island child's natural reserve .
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Kumana is a natural water reserve .
official
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Therefore, managed floating does not have the advantage of making redundant the holding of official reserves .
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Sixty percent of official reserves and 50 percent of private reserves are currently held in dollars.
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Figures showing a fall last month in official reserves did not dent market sentiment.
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In the 1950s about three-fifths of total gold production found its way into official reserves .
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The official reserve itself is also vulnerable to changes in exchange rate, which compounds the problem of ensuring adequate reserves.
proven
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The equivalent statistical probabilities for the proven component of proven and probable reserves are 90 percent and 10 percent respectively.
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The company said proven reserves were worth Ir20p per share.
■ NOUN
cash
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Experts' advice Investment: Build up a cash reserve and then use both Isa allowances to invest in equities.
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That could be problematic for the bull market, with fund managers' cash reserves already at 20-year lows.&038;.
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On the other hand, cash reserves do not earn any return for the bank.
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State auditors and financial experts have criticized the school district for having low cash reserves .
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Whatever your aims, building up a cash reserve for the future always makes sense.
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As explained above, the commercial banks' cash reserves are reduced so that they may recall their loans from the discount houses.
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Gold and cash reserves fell by around £2 billion as a result of the sterling crisis.
currency
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But even as the country's gold and currency reserves continued to drain away, worse was to come.
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Danzig's already depleted currency reserves dropped steadily.
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Growth this year is estimated at 4 %, and exports and foreign currency reserves are up.
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Foreign currency reserves had plunged to some US$2,300 million in early March, barely enough to cover three weeks' imports.
exchange
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By mid-1989 foreign exchange reserves were estimated to be sufficient to cover only two months of imports.
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Global surpluses can likewise be meaningless to the dozens of poor nations that have overwhelming demands placed on slim foreign exchange reserves .
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Billions of pounds have been wiped off share values and removed from foreign exchange reserves this week.
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In February 1994 it had $ 30 billion in exchange reserves .
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Government figures indicated that total foreign exchange reserves stood at only US$14,750,000.
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According to the first figures available, it is estimated that the national bank's exchange reserves equal a month's imports.
gas
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The Caspian basin, which is rich in oil and gas reserves , is central to his new foreign policy doctrine.
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It said it will use the net proceeds to acquire long-life natural gas reserves and exploit development opportunities.
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Chesapeake believes there are substantial oil and gas reserves in this eastern leg of the geological formation known as the Austin chalk.
nature
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Julie was cut down beneath a nearby tree on the beautiful nature reserve 220 miles north of Durban.
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Care would be taken not to harm the environment in the nature reserve there, which was designated a world heritage area.
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It is a nature reserve , with not a single permanent human inhabitant.
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There are about 150,000 acres of natural space left, but only 50,000 acres are protected by a nature reserve .
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Also with us was Jim McGeoch, naturalist and official warden for the latter nature reserve .
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The area is now a nature reserve .
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The local borough has proposed that the wood should be declared a local nature reserve .
oil
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Known oil reserves are enough to last for 40 years, natural gas for over 65 years and coal for 250 years.
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Many other countries of the world that are deficient in oil reserves have coal and natural gas.
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As oil reserves are depleted, its price will continue to rise.
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But as oil reserves dwindled over the past decade, local school property taxes doubled to help make up the difference.
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Two-thirds of the worlds oil reserves still sleep quietly beneath the soil of Mecca.
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Estimates of world oil reserves have increased steadily since the 1970s, more than doubling by some calculations.
wildlife
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The impressive wildlife reserve of the Algonquin Provincial Park is a stunning array of native animals in the wild.
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Many wildlife reserves and parks are too dangerous for park rangers, let alone tourists.
■ VERB
build
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Experts' advice Investment: Build up a cash reserve and then use both Isa allowances to invest in equities.
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On mild autumn days, pond fish will be feeding enthusiastically, building up their fat reserves .
call
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Certainly he wasted no time in calling up his reserves .
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They, too, had needed to call on reserves of willpower and self-discipline.
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This calls for immense reserves of patience and tact.
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But Jackson soon had to call up his reserves .
dip
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The center already has dipped into its reserves and anticipates borrowing heavily from the city.
draw
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Many counties had drawn on their reserves to keep rate increases down in their own election year of 1989.
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As a team we had barely begun to draw upon our reserves of mutual tolerance and respect.
establish
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Drilling will establish whether reserves of 1m ounces can be increased.
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Another condition requires Harvard to establish a reserve account to make sure that the insurer can pay outstanding medical bills.
estimate
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Mr Mayo estimates that loan loss reserves will have to be increased by a third, assuming an economic soft landing.
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In March 1988 Glencar announced that it had found deposits of gold, estimating the reserves at £300 million.
hold
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Today, however, the Sun must be wishing that it had held that headline in reserve .
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Elements of mechanized battalions were held in reserve , kind of like the cavalry.
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It chose not to register that profit on the balance sheet and hold the earnings in reserve for future years.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Later, Darcy drops his reserve and confesses that he loves her.
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The country has foreign currency reserves of $83 billion.
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They sold half the wood and kept the rest in reserve for winter.
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We had to rely on our emergency reserve of food while we were snowed in.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As well as its own peat-cutting operations, the company is also encouraging local farmers to use mechanical excavators to exploit their own reserves.
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Basic banks are obliged to maintain certain reserves, which consist of cash in hand and deposits at the National Bank.
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I wanted to reach into my inner reserve and call up the power to heal.
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In March 1971 central banks agreed to freeze the deposit of reserves on the Euromarkets.
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Remove with slotted spoon and reserve in a small bowl.
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The Victorian era comes down to us today mired in images of distance and reserve .
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These are both very liquid and interest-earning assets and thus provide a valuable second line of reserves.
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They decided to launch an as-sault after the bombardment, with my platoon in reserve .