adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
as good as dead/ruined/useless etc
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This carpet’s as good as ruined.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
abbey
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At home the prevailing taste was for more picturesque remains, ruined abbeys and medieval churches.
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For a second or two the moon escapes from behind the rushing clouds casting silvery shadows on the ruined abbey .
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At that moment they reached the ruined abbey and she fell silent at its sheer beauty.
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St Albans with its Verulamium, ruined abbey and rose gardens is 15 miles away.
building
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There was a good bookshop, and a large ruined building , gaunt and flaking, the Hibernian Hall.
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At the oldest and most ruined building , they stopped and Mr Bumble took out his piece of paper.
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Follow this, bearing left to reach some small ruined buildings and a water race.
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Not a waterside bird, frequenting dry country and nesting on rocky cliffs and stream banks, sometimes on ruined buildings .
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They moved on, following it up to the first of the ruined buildings .
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Two men with muddied faces and bracken on their helmets are in a ruined building , trying to spot an enemy rifleman.
castle
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At seventeen, he announces that he wants to spend his whole life in a ruined castle by the sea.
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Combe Sydenham country park has beautiful walks and tasty trout for sale whilst Stogursey boasts a moated ruined castle and Norman church.
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Abergavenny is a bustling market town with a museum in the grounds of a ruined castle .
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Tintagel with its ruined castle is closely associated with the legend of King Arthur.
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We drove through placid scenery, past a ruined castle and so into Tuam.
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St Andrews still has an attractive, if not overworked, little harbour below the gaunt shapes of ruined castle and cathedral.
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It has a ruined castle , an interesting local history museum, and its own school of painters.
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That was in a bay overlooked by a ruined castle straight out of Macbeth.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At the oldest and most ruined building, they stopped and Mr Bumble took out his piece of paper.
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Other places to explore include the Valley of the Temples in Agrigento and the ruined city of Selinute.
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The earliest known is the Apollo at Athens, pre-500, found with later works in a ruined warehouse at Piraeus.
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The wind howled and the surf continued to roar as we explored beyond our landing point; we visited a ruined chapel.
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There was a good bookshop, and a large ruined building, gaunt and flaking, the Hibernian Hall.