noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a baby son/daughter/brother/sister
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We’d like a baby brother or sister for Ben.
elder brother/son/sister/daughter etc
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His elder son Liam became a lawyer.
eldest son/daughter/brother/child etc
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My eldest daughter is 17.
son et lumière
son of a bitch
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He’s a filthy lying son of a bitch.
son of a gun
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Duke, you old son of a gun, how are you?
Son of God
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
elder
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One was to her elder son Gamal, who was then in Florida.
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Their elder son , Nicky, had disappeared on his motorcycle in a cloud of dust and anger.
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They always remind me of those twins from that cartoonist my elder son liked.
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The elder son of the Rev.
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Perhaps this was something he had in common with his elder son .
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Polyneices, the elder son , did the same.
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Eventually a letter arrived from London in response to Moran's exasperated inquiries about his elder son .
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Well, two days later Mr McNab and his elder son called at my home.
eldest
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May 1910, and it was necessary for his eldest son to become King George V, in his succession.
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Frank, the eldest son , is twelve, old enough to wear a jacket and tie.
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If our eldest son is awake then he may come down and have breakfast with us.
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The eldest son of my host was missing an ear.
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Emmanuel Basota has lost his eldest son , Alex.
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This he usually did, and often it was his eldest son .
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He was aware his eldest son , the sensitive William, could be the biggest loser.
old
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He is a classic modern tough guy as well as being an Old Testament prodigal son .
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Her husband and two-year-#old son moved to Seattle with her.
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Our older son and his wife came to live with us for four months, between University and his first job.
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A single father, whose 9-year-#old son lives with him part time, Wait said he is a self-taught cook.
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The older two sons took everything they could, leaving the youngest son with just a cat.
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Evan Bayh of Indiana, 40-year-\#old son of former Sen.
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Captains and their twelve year old sons .
only
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She loved me all right and I was her only son , but oh, what a struggle she had to show ii.
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Woolgar was a wealthy Sussex businessman whose only son was the priest at St Joseph's in Banfield.
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He lost his only son Jay, 26, in an air crash and his first wife Connie drowned in Antigua.
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Services to giving his only son more grief than any mortal should have to bear.
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Elsewhere an only son and brother is setting out into the great world to win a name and place.
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They did not often do so, and the women had no recorded daughters, only sons .
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It seems to arise out of overwhelming compassion for the poor widow who was in the process of burying her only son .
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Among these was definitely a call to her only son Gamal, who was then in Florida.
young
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She added: sometimes my young son wants to cross the road when it s dangerous.
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Clotilde quickly adopted his three chil-dren, which angered Clotaire, her youngest son .
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The father, black beard full of snow shards, watched the youngest son , watched him work.
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She is also deeply worried their beloved young son Thomas Jefferson, four, will suffer from the split.
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This produced differential status between older and younger sons and between sons and daughters.
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His youngest son looked exactly like the portrait.
■ NOUN
baby
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She had been served four years of a life sentence for the murder of her baby son .
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But when their baby son was born, they forgot to add the boy as a beneficiary.
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She watched Naseem as the older woman fed her baby son .
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But so cool is the blue minimalist card that one style magazine editor aspired to name his baby son Sony.
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My daughter and son-in-law have tried to have their baby son christened in a local church.
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The deal was completed in a flat near the Palace ... and Lucy even took her baby son Matthew along.
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He had met her husband, Vos, a young clergyman, and seen their baby son .
■ VERB
born
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Niklaus Andreas Lauda was born the son of a Viennese paper mill owner on 22 February 1949.
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Thebes was Dionysus' own city, where he was born , the son of Zeus and the Theban princess Semele.
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Charles's next child was born dead - a son .
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I was born the son of a woodman who chopped down trees in the forest and sold the wood for a living.
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An abortion is performed, or a son is born .
die
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They had one son , who died at birth.
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At about the same time, his two legitimate sons died of the plague.
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Jean's son Darren died from a major epileptic fit three months after this interview.
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I watched my son die in the hospital.
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In 1896 her son died of typhoid.
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Cathy and Chris Erb are relieved they considered it when their son , Logan, died last year.
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The eldest son , Edmund, died as a fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, in 1577.
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Her two sons sought retribution for their father, but Rita would rather her sons died than become murderers.
kill
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Before he died, he cursed us for killing his son .
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Once Abraham can see the place where he will kill his son , the pace of the narrative slows right down.
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Sibling rivalry kills Oedipus' sons .
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Then the examining magistrate changed his mind, released Mr Laroche and charged Mrs Villemin with killing her own son .
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What is important to me is the apprehension of the person or persons who killed our son .
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So they kill the son to acquire the vineyard.
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The father responded by threatening to kill his sons , Erik said.
send
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Sophie will marry one day, and perhaps she will send her sons to you.
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Not one to accept defeat so easily, she sent her son joe to the place where such records are kept.
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She gave harp lessons and sent her son firmly to school.
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I sent my son , Danny, far out of the danger zone.
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She sent my son Branwell away, and later married a rich old man.
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The Grotonian reflected not only the school itself but the social milieu that sent its sons there.
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John Pascoe who sent his son .
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I sent the youngest son in another direction and the girls to a third place.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be a son of a bitch
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Getting the new tire on was a real son of a bitch.
favourite son
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And Rebekah will never again see her favourite son.
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He was not her favourite son, but he was something.
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On the other hand, Dubroca, even before Fouroux's exit, was one of Albert Ferrasse's favourite sons.
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Pamela thought for a moment of Roy, her favourite son, and Bernice, his wife - also a career girl.
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Wolsey played with the gold pendant around his neck and smirked patronisingly at Agrippa as if he was a favourite son.
foster child/son/daughter
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And then they went into this foster children um, having a home for foster children.
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As a result, the report said, one in 10 foster children remains in the system for more than seven years.
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Other foster children with happy memories did the same, though distance and new relationships combined to make contact sporadic.
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Roland then removed the spell from himself and the good foster daughter.
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The witch was able to see her foster daughter and Roland fleeing because of her magic powers.
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These foster children are not available for adoption.
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These are establishments which, for a fee, will undertake to foster children of very tender years.
from father to son
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Land passes from father to son: his is split between himself and his father.
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The bone-setting power is often handed down from father to son.
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The centuries' old recipe has been handed down from father to son.
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The eyes of those in the room shifted uneasily from father to son.
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The whole gentile constitution made the transference of private property from father to son impossible.
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Their status was hereditary, land and titles being passed on from father to son.
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This means that harem females are being passed down from father to son in a patrilineal fashion.
grown children/daughter/son
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I had two grown daughters, and when I lost the first one, this one became the apple of my eye.
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See more of his grown daughter and son.
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Seeing photographs of Rubilove Willcox Aiu in newspapers last Sunday was unexpected and bewildering for her grown children.
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Tall, slender and divorced, Sheila had-incredibly-two grown sons.
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The senator, 72, has a grown daughter by his former wife but is of grandfatherly vintage now.
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Yet her husband, laid off from his job as a messenger, and her grown children are unemployed.
like father like son
newborn child/baby/son etc
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How does one recognise pain in a newborn baby to whom one can not speak?
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In 1987 our newborn baby died.
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In the early 1950s an effective method of resuscitating newborn babies who did not breathe was not known.
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No one expects a newborn baby to go out and get a job before learning the basic life skills and getting schooling.
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One example might be where a newborn child developed an infection requiring special care, but recovered in a few days.
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The occasional incidents of newborn babies being stolen from public hospitals understandably causes a furore.
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Under a window lay our newborn son crowned by a spectrum, the seven strands of vision.
prodigal son/daughter
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A prodigal daughter, I had learned in only one day, I was not.
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A final provocative statement from a life-long prankster, a prodigal son of Harvard, it seems so fitting.
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He is a classic modern tough guy as well as being an Old Testament prodigal son.
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The prodigal son had returned to Parkhead.
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The prodigal son will feast with harlots no more.
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The parable of the prodigal son conveys at a conscious level a message about the need for forgiveness and acceptance.
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The play, very moral in tone throughout, is a reworking of the theme of the return of the prodigal son.
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When the music stopped, Gary concentrated on the parable of the prodigal son.
son of a bitch!
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Son of a bitch! The car won't start!
son of a gun!
the Son of God
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Her son used to work in Texas.
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members of the Sons of Italy
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Our son Jamie is five years old.
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The family business has now been taken over by Anderson's eldest son .
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We have two teenage sons.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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She so much wanted to avoid another pitched battle with her son .
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So Demeter nursed Demophoon, the son that Metaneira had borne to wise Celeus.
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Sophie will marry one day, and perhaps she will send her sons to you.
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The figures of two parents stooped over their 13-year-old son who would die tomorrow.