I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
combat troops/soldiers/forces/units
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US combat troops were in the streets of the capital yesterday.
private soldier
rebel forces/soldiers
soldier of fortune
toy car/soldier/gun etc
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
old
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He was now thirty-one years old and a soldier and politician of great experience.
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On the way to the church, she ran into an old soldier with a strange long red beard.
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He was also the caricature of a crusty old soldier .
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But the old soldier had the last laugh.
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The older soldier presses a chocolate bar into my hand, then pushes me towards the crowd of waiting women.
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Old battles, and old soldiers fighting them over again.
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Roddy McDowall makes an appearance as a mad old soldier and lifts the film out of its doldrums.
regular
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If, that is, they were regular Roman soldiers .
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He ran a youth club with a man called Jefferson, who had been a regular soldier .
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Graham responded by collecting an army of his own, including a detachment of regular soldiers from the garrison at Carlisle.
young
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Many young soldiers desert or go Awol after mistreatment and bullying by their superiors or colleagues.
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A young soldier prodded her when she tried to sit down, but otherwise ignored her.
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A young soldier said that he had a warrant to search the house.
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Harry Belafonte was Joe, an innocent young soldier .
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Three young soldiers were killed instantly when an explosion inside the reactor forced it literally through the roof of its housing.
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Along came a young soldier , recently discharged from the army because his wounds made him unable to serve.
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That young soldier , who was your friend - why did he kill himself?
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They also walk past the car the three young soldiers were sitting on, drinking Naranja.
■ NOUN
foot
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Barbarossa's foot soldiers were often still attired like this eleventh-century warrior.
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Could politics function effectively if there were no foot soldiers ? 3.
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These were organized into four divisions of foot soldiers and about 500 light cavalry.
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In such cases, the environment provides foot soldiers with confusing signals regarding the acceptable level and forms of political activism.
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Not that the foot soldiers of the movement were completely excluded.
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Hers was the record of, at best, a foot soldier in the feminist and abolitionist struggles of her day.
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The cavalry technique would have been the single mass charge carrying maximum force, with following attacks from foot soldiers .
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Among the foot soldiers , oft-concealed feelings about service are also bubbling to the surface.
rebel
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The men and women I had known as rebel soldiers in the mountains now wore suits.
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Three of the rebel soldiers and one government soldier were killed.
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The rebel soldiers were imprisoned and taken to Lisbon.
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The mutiny ended the following day when government forces regained control of the camp and arrested 45 of the rebel soldiers .
■ VERB
kill
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A total of 210 people were killed outright by the soldiers , another seventy-one died later and 173 were less seriously wounded.
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Two suicide squads from the Lashkar-e-Toiba group attacked army posts, killing five soldiers and injuring 13.
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Lumumba was deposed in August 1960 and killed by soldiers six months later.
play
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You, Rambo, come and play soldiers with me down on Jollity Farm.
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Their eyes on the playing woman, the soldiers release her sister.
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Firecracker wanted to play soldiers instead.
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Sometimes he played soldiers with them and they thought little of his plans for defence in depth.
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They are always pretending to be grown-ups playing soldiers , playing shop.
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Time you were away playing toy soldiers , who do you think looked after this house and the estate?
send
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In an ideal world, similarly, strong countries would help war-torn ones by sending in their soldiers .
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The governor sent forty soldiers to fire on what he called the horribly and detestably blasphemous Gortonians.
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The image of the governor sending soldiers to block a courthouse door, they say, evokes images of segregationist Gov.
shoot
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Soldier shot by sniper A soldier has died after being shot by a sniper whilst on duty in Northern Ireland.
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In August 1990 two Buddhist monks were shot dead by soldiers at an anti-government demonstration in Mandalay.
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Hooded men on June 1 shot dead a young soldier , Pte.
wounded
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By March 1863, military hospitals in Germantown and nearby communities held almost two thousand wounded soldiers .
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I passed long wagon trains filled with wounded and dying soldiers , without even a blanket to shield them....
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We gave performances in neighborhood theaters and schools, and before wounded soldiers in hospitals.
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Then, giving my horse in charge of a wounded soldier , I turned back over the field of mutilation and death.
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In 1942, Walter Reed officials needed more beds for wounded soldiers and purchased the school for $ 800, 000.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
career soldier/teacher etc
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A career soldier, he had died leading his men into battle at Spion Kop during the Boer War.
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A Kurator is similar to a specialist careers teacher with additional contributions to make after school.
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For career soldiers like Jack it was a depressing time.
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They liaise with secondary school careers teachers, and also with the employers in an area.
foot soldier/patrol
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Barbarossa's foot soldiers were often still attired like this eleventh-century warrior.
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Dreben says that he never talks about his experiences as a foot soldier, but they were certainly horrific.
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Each foot soldier also carried a bow, twelve arrows and a spare bowstring as standard equipment.
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Hayworth is one of the many first-term Republican foot soldiers who proudly fall into lockstep behind Rep.
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In such cases, the environment provides foot soldiers with confusing signals regarding the acceptable level and forms of political activism.
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It is important to emphasize any explanation of the foot soldiers is highly contingent upon the environment in which they are operating.
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The columns included foot soldiers, artillery and cavalry units, white-topped sup-ply wagons, and dark-hued ambulances.
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These were organized into four divisions of foot soldiers and about 500 light cavalry.
regular army/troops/soldier
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Equally ambivalent were local attitudes to the wholesale billeting in Sussex of regular troops and other county militias during invasion scares.
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It is possible that some of Mezrag's forces continue to provide the regular army with back-up troops.
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The regular army had become increasingly discontented with its role in the war over the last ten years.
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The regular army has not advanced from the edge of the zone.
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The regular troops successfully ended the Great Strike within a few days.
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The other women in the classroom, except for two in the uniforms of the regular army, wear dresses.
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The ragged guerrillas become a new regular army with housing and pensions.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Moore has been a soldier for most of his adult life.
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There were several soldiers guarding the main gate.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A group of young soldiers were standing outside talking excitedly, their bulging kit-bags leaning up against their legs.
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Contemporary accounts give the impression of a watchful, mistrustful regime, of a country bristling with fortresses and teeming with soldiers.
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Foreshadowing yet another Communist practice, he formed colonies of soldiers to farm virgin areas.
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Grinning soldiers crowded around the partition.
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This orphan grew up to be a soldier .
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We can form a human chain of Berliners along the Wall which no one dare break, nomatterhow many soldiers they send.
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Women were raped by their countrymen as well as by United Nations soldiers who were supposed to protect them.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
on
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Those you run into may not, but you soldier on .
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The Atlanta Braves soldiered on , sending four baseballs over the fence at Candlestick Park.
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Life is very crude, and bonnie Princes Street a dream, but we soldier on with a good grace.
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Irony abounds: In late winter 1992, Hillary Clinton soldiered on through public mortification toward the greater goal of the presidency.
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The city of Glasgow soldiered on .
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But he had soldiered on and eaten the entire loaf over a period of several days.
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He soldiered on at his job.
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While he soldiered on , wife Norma was unable to stand the pace.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After losing centre-forward Lloyd Davies with a knee injury, the Cobblers soldiered on with ten men to earn a goalless draw.
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But the eighty year old has soldiered on.
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Do you realise, that I've been soldiering longer than anything else since I was a schoolboy?