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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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away
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Soon there would be the little clutch of spectators, the curious children shooed away by the adults, the Press photographers.
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Just this week, the City Council decided to use the police like a big swinging tail to shoo away insects.
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A greyhound cocked his leg against the table and was promptly shooed away .
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In the United States, volunteers are shooed away from spill cleanup, deemed too toxic for unprotected citizens.
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Instead of spending money in town, soldiers now dig foxholes along lakes in parks and shoo away camera-toting visitors.
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He notes that his lawyers regularly shoo away concessionaires who use images of the Empire State Building without permission.
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First, they were shooed away from the main entrance.
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We soothed fevered brows with cool hands and shooed away demons with a look.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He prescribed a painkiller and suggested she keep busy, then he shooed her away and chided her for malingering.
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I come outside and shoo Grandpa off the mower again.
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Johnny knew that was wrong, and with his stick, he tried to shoo the goats out.
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Just this week, the City Council decided to use the police like a big swinging tail to shoo away insects.
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She shooed him, and he skipped away, but not without hooting behind his hand.
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Soon there would be the little clutch of spectators, the curious children shooed away by the adults, the Press photographers.
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These were the days when rock was being shooed out in disgrace, a lumpen confusion of scratched armpits and muddled motives.