noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a shopping bag
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She loaded her shopping bags into the back of the car.
a shopping basket
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She paid for the apples and put them in her shopping basket.
a shopping centre
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They are building a huge new shopping centre just outside the town.
a shopping complex
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Some old buildings were pulled down to make space for a new shopping complex.
a shopping district
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The bomb exploded in a crowded shopping district.
a shopping expedition (= when you go shopping )
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I took Mary and the kids on a shopping expedition into Manchester.
a shopping list (= a list of things you want to buy )
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a Christmas shopping list
a shopping street British English (= with a lot of shops )
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This is one of Europe’s most elegant shopping streets.
a shopping/fishing/skiing etc trip
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He was knocked off his bicycle on his way home from a shopping trip.
Christmas shopping (= for presents for people )
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Have you done your Christmas shopping yet?
do the shopping/cleaning/ironing/cooking etc
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Who does the cooking in your family?
go shopping/swimming/skiing etc
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I need to go shopping this afternoon.
Internet shopping/banking
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The new regulations will increase customer confidence in Internet shopping.
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Internet banking saves customers a lot of time.
shopping bag
shopping basket
shopping cart
shopping centre
shopping list
shopping mall
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a huge new shopping mall
shopping mall
shopping precinct
shopping spree
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a shopping spree
shopping trolley
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
busy
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The hotel is situated in a busy shopping street close to many attractions including the Leidseplein, Vondelpark, and Rijksmuseum.
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Swivel/lockable Wheels are easier to manoeuvre in a busy shopping area while fixed wheels are probably more comfortable over bumpy ground.
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Funding delays are the latest controversy to surround the building, which used to be a busy shopping centre off Skinnergate.
excellent
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Glasgow is an excellent town for shopping , or perhaps you would care to visit the museums, including the Burrell Collection.
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Hotel Anatol Close to one of the excellent shopping areas is this comfortable modern hotel.
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We would have about three and a half hours in Swansea, an excellent shopping centre.
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Apart from this, the area would seem to be an excellent site for shopping , leisure and community facilities.
large
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There's a range of fabulous large shopping malls, and don't miss Lake Cecil which offers excellent watersports.
local
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Which are the market towns, for farm products and local shopping ?
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While hard-pressed police were occupied in rescue work, the heartless thieves descended on local shopping centres.
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Assignments 1 Walk around your local shopping area and choose six shops.
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More than 400 people in New Marske petitioned Langbaurgh Council over the application for the takeaway in the local shopping parade.
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At least it may allow the client to do some local shopping or allow a child more space outside.
main
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This new town became the main shopping and business office centre.
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Our house is just off the main shopping street of Tintagel, so there is always a lot of traffic going by.
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The main shopping and entertainments area is right on your doorstep.
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The complex features glass domes which will let in natural sunlight on the two main shopping areas.
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The riverside section of Pest opposite Castle Hill is the city's main shopping district.
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The hotel is at the end of the main shopping street in a busy part of the village.
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They and their families are doing their main weekly shopping and meeting to gossip with their friends.
new
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One new shopping centre planned for Budapest would increase traffic in and out the city by an estimated 20,000 cars a day.
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Where new road patterns or a new shopping centre affect trade, appeal.
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The life of a new shopping precinct may be no more than twenty years.
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Major new shopping developments have given Birmingham the best facilities in the region.
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No more whistle-stop tours of the newest shopping centre in Nuneaton to look forward to.
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The old terraced houses are being demolished to make way for a new shopping centre.
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The first is to build the new shopping mall or supermarket immediately adjacent to the town centre.
weekly
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The weekly shopping for a family of 4.
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They and their families are doing their main weekly shopping and meeting to gossip with their friends.
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Your weekly shopping list will probably change; you need to think about the best ways to do this for you.
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Over-packaging adds about ten percent to our weekly shopping bill.
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Where now is the consumer's demand for weekly one-stop shopping when bread has to be bought fresh daily?
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With the introduction of the Barcode Battler, Christmas and weekly shopping might never be the same again.
■ NOUN
arcade
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Behind the glitzy shopping arcades , ethnic criminal gangs fight for territory.
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This must be the shopping arcade .
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The shopping arcade is a stroll-and-browse region and the preserve of medium tempo Lawrence Welk.
area
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The complex features glass domes which will let in natural sunlight on the two main shopping areas .
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The Ku'damm was Berlin's major shopping area on Saturday afternoon.
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Driving-related report, however, was highest in shopping areas , then arterial roads, and lowest in residential areas.
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From here she would be able to make her way to the shopping areas , which were primarily reserved for pedestrian traffic.
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The Milk Race ends with a two-hour circuit race in the heart of Manchester's shopping area tomorrow.
bag
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She only purchased unpackaged products, which she bore home in her ancient shopping bag .
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She clutched her shopping bag and her handbag.
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It already recycles plastic shrink-wrap into shopping bags , and 550 own-brands products are packed in recycled cardboard.
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Stash old plastic or paper shopping bags near the rubbish or garbage bin and then you can re-cycle them as bin liners.
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Damp women bundled shopping bags and prams up and down the pavement.
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Jimmy swung himself down, and lifted the shopping bag out of the cart.
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The trolley had been pushed a few feet away and my handbag removed from my shopping bag .
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A woman batters her husband to death with a coffee pot which she for ever after keeps in her shopping bag .
basket
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Fumbling with the latch key, she rushed for the telephone, thrusting the shopping basket at Edward.
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The effects of inflation are not limited to the shopping basket , says Raoul Pinnell, Prudential's marketing director.
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We chose a shopping basket of 29 items to compare them with Tesco and Sainsbury.
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Their shopping basket was £2.43 cheaper than in Sainsbury's, and £2.46p cheaper than in Tesco's.
centre
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The four-year-old was murdered in the crowded shopping centre of Warrington in a blast that injured scores of people including other children.
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A tree lined avenue leads to Minehead's shopping centre and the district's main tourist information centre.
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Houseman's Shropshire that was once visible from Telford's shopping centre has been very carefully and skilfully gnawed away.
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The Tropical Plants experts as the team was to be called were all seen tending the plants throughout the shopping centre .
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Read in studio A man accused of two arson attacks in a city shopping centre has appeared before magistrates.
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His experience in retail and shopping centre management includes managing a number of shopping centres in New Zealand.
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Although the council provided more than 50 disabled car parking spaces in the shopping centre , the couple claimed this was not enough.
centres
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This and the building of shopping centres and roads for larger numbers of cars created jobs in construction and materials.
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Some of the disastrous shopping centres of the 1960s suffered greatly from under-use because of limited public access from the surrounding streets.
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These securities include more than 100 properties, such as shopping centres , in five states.
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Luckily, I didn't have to scour the shopping centres of the north west for her.
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There are extra shopping centres and the Lady Godiva statue now has a marquee-like canopy swamping it.
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Many shopping centres include car-parking facilities.
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He was also involved in the development of shopping centres , offices and other building project throughout the country.
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Charge more for parking in shopping centres .
cornmill
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Burton Property Trust is the developer behind the Cornmill shopping centre in Darlington.
development
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Major new shopping developments have given Birmingham the best facilities in the region.
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We have state-of-the-art shopping developments right on the edge of West Belfast and the promise of jobs for the long-term unemployed.
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Such a direction has been issued, for example, in respect of a large-scale retail shopping development .
expedition
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He was allegedly detained at the town's Safeway Supermarket after a Friday afternoon shopping expedition went wrong.
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Later in the day, after their shopping expedition , Jessica and Karen drove down to the docks.
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In the afternoon, I was conducted on a shopping expedition by from Alligarh, an ex-student of ours from Lancaster.
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Small semi-serious shopping expeditions are valued as a relief from the social isolation and the work of housework.
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She was concentrating on her appearance, adding the finishing touches before setting out on yet another shopping expedition .
facility
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But I think we should be very wary of equating the growth of shopping facilities with the reconstruction of the local economy.
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The apartments also have an àlacarte restaurant and 24 hour reception with money exchange and general shopping facilities .
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It suggests Middlesbrough needs a wider choice of entertainment, bars, restaurants and shopping facilities than it now offers.
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Day 2 Invaluable brief on yachts, local area, weather patterns, shopping facilities etc.
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Coun David Walsh is worried about the impact on existing shopping facilities and the possible huge increase in traffic.
home
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With home shopping out of the way, Pitcher will be able to concentrate on the football pools and high street retailing.
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Strategically, home shopping is the obvious part to sell.
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A new way of home shopping for today's mums.
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Curiously, explains Bill Huntley, head of home shopping , the brands are still differentiated by the users.
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Veiled women carrying home shopping didn't give me a second glance.
list
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Don't do it automatically, as though you were reciting a shopping list .
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Buying a house is not high on many poor blacks' shopping lists .
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Hard times for the hake and pilchard, next on the U.S. shopping list .
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Prayer is far more than a shopping list , or an incidental five minutes at the end of a busy day.
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Kathleen Lavender stared down once again at the shopping list in her hand.
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Old bus tickets, theatre-tickets, a golf score-card, a shopping list , the items almost unreadable.
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The backs of old envelopes may be good enough for shopping lists but scrappy notes are worse than none.
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Diana Adams will now be taking her business elsewhere ... with bananas firmly off the shopping list .
mall
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Designers have been at pains to ensure the Cornmill is not just a covered shopping mall .
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Or is the genuine Dublin culture to be found in the new sprawling suburbs with its run-down libraries and shopping malls ?
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It has sprouted shopping malls , discos and nightclubs, beauty salons, gymnasia, news kiosks, coffee shops.
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I don't work shopping malls .
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Even now, he had never returned to the shopping mall .
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You have shopping malls in Richmond and Clapham.
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Step ashore to a world of pavement cafes, boutiques and the continental charm of Port Solent's fashionable shopping mall .
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There's a range of fabulous large shopping malls , and don't miss Lake Cecil which offers excellent watersports.
precinct
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The two-year-old disappeared 11 days ago from Bootle's Strand shopping precinct .
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The shopping precinct is full of teenagers gathered in small clusters, smoking, gossiping, laughing, scuffling.
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James was found dead beside a railway line in Liverpool after disappearing from a shopping precinct in Bootle last month.
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For a modern, purpose-built resort it is surprisingly attractive, with its wood-clad buildings and cobbled shopping precincts .
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They are usually found in town centres and shopping precincts .
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The life of a new shopping precinct may be no more than twenty years.
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Many shopping precincts are also pedestrianised.
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The security firm Chubb said yesterday that further copies of the document had been discovered in a West Country shopping precinct .
spree
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Vividly picture going on a wonderful shopping spree , buying everything you have ever dreamt of, with great joy and exuberance.
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But looking after five-month-old daughter Atlanta has put a brake on her clothes shopping sprees .
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She was on a shopping spree and had bumped into him outside Heal's in Tottenham Court Road.
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More controversial than Woody Allen on a shopping spree in children's world.
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We are in the midst of a decade-long shopping spree .
street
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Our house is just off the main shopping street of Tintagel, so there is always a lot of traffic going by.
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In just ten seconds a peaceful shopping street is transformed.
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The hotel is at the end of the main shopping street in a busy part of the village.
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And second, it must be conceived and laid out in such a way as to support existing shops and shopping streets .
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The hotel is situated in a busy shopping street close to many attractions including the Leidseplein, Vondelpark, and Rijksmuseum.
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Situated in a quiet location, the hotel is about an eight minute walk from the resort's main shopping street .
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At that time North Shields had a set of Victorian shopping streets .
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They met, in fact, in the main shopping street , several minutes from his office.
trip
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The man who'd followed us on our shopping trip .
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Sainsbury's encourage this by refunding 1p for each bag reused during your shopping trip .
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An ordinary shopping trip will leave you weary.
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D' you feel like a shopping trip to New York?
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Take kids for last shopping trip but still can not remember which essential of life we have run out of.
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For this shopping trip is partially inspired by a letter I received today, outlining just what an economic Titan I am.
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Just the usual talk about the weather and her occasional shopping trip to Fort William.
trolley
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Backache is a constant complaint as I stoop over low baths, sinks, baby buggies and shopping trolleys .
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He says, we have lifts, automatic doors, disabled fitting rooms and shopping trolleys .
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I shall be the only person returning to his car without a shopping trolley .
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He is borne away by obedient parents, like an Emperor on a shopping trolley .
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A young woman with a shopping trolley finds herself caught in the crossfire.
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Apart from answering the phone, she can dance, pray, collect the mail and the Echo and push a shopping trolley .
window
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Magazines and window shopping are a good source of inspiration.
■ VERB
carry
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Léonie chose to use the basket Madeleine carried when she went shopping in the village.
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He was carrying a bag of shopping .
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Improved bus services do not eliminate the difficulties of getting to and from bus stops and carrying shopping home.
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They carried their offspring and they carried shopping bags.
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Hope Elaine did not hear this, and carry more boxes of shopping up path.
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Is it difficult for you to carry two or three shopping bags?
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A man in a business suit and a woman carrying a Saks shopping bag got in with him.
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Veiled women carrying home shopping didn't give me a second glance.
go
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By going shopping Mr Azcárraga has followed fashion.
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She skipped lunch in order to go shopping , spending some of her carefully hoarded wages on a new outfit for the occasion.
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Later, she went out shopping , taking a taxi to Jardine's Bazaar down in Causewsay Bay.
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He hadn't noticed it particularly when they had gone shopping together.
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They practised early in the morning before the rains came and then went shopping .
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In the mornings, for instance, after finishing the household chores she might go shopping , and then have lunch with friends.
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She could have killed the child either before or after going shopping .
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Those children, no more than babies, and the mama had gone shopping and left on the oil-stove, no?
spend
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The cash, in bundles of £50, £20 and £10 notes, was stolen while they spent twenty minutes shopping .
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She spent her time shopping , reading women's magazines, listening to pop music and watching television.
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He will be abandoning happy Saturday afternoons spent watching football, and instead spend them shopping , spending money.
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In ordinary circumstances the family contemplating spending a considerable amount of money would probably spend some time shopping around getting quotations.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
crying/shopping/talking etc jag
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I had an incredible crying jag .
go shopping
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I'm going shopping now. Do you want anything?
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Let's meet in town. We can have lunch and go shopping .
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And if she was staying she had to go shopping for groceries.
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Arrange to go shopping with a resident who wants to buy new clothes.
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By going shopping Mr Azcárraga has followed fashion.
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Governments measure inflation by going shopping .
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Richard and I go shopping on Castro Street.
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This was the case when Chavez decided to go shopping in Tampa.
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When it goes shopping for fresh solutions, the open organization ought to be looking for a good fit and durability.
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When she went shopping to the town she wore a long, voluminous, dark-grey cloak of which she was very proud.
shopping/pedestrian precinct
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Continue through Headington shopping precinct until reaching Windmill Road traffic lights, turn right and continue until the roundabout.
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For a modern, purpose-built resort it is surprisingly attractive, with its wood-clad buildings and cobbled shopping precincts .
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However, most cities now have some car-free space in the form of arcades, converted streets or purpose-built pedestrian precincts .
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James was found dead beside a railway line in Liverpool after disappearing from a shopping precinct in Bootle last month.
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The life of a new shopping precinct may be no more than twenty years.
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The shopping precinct is full of teenagers gathered in small clusters, smoking, gossiping, laughing, scuffling.
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The two-year-old disappeared 11 days ago from Bootle's Strand shopping precinct .
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They are usually found in town centres and shopping precincts .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Ben listed his hobbies as watching TV, shopping , and going to the movies.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Even now, he had never returned to the shopping mall.
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On Friday morning I take my neighbour shopping .
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Or is the genuine Dublin culture to be found in the new sprawling suburbs with its run-down libraries and shopping malls?
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She arranged with the friend beside whom he was being rehoused to do his shopping on a regular basis.
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There's a range of fabulous large shopping malls, and don't miss Lake Cecil which offers excellent watersports.
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When she went shopping to the town she wore a long, voluminous, dark-grey cloak of which she was very proud.