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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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lawn
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The lawn sprinklers had been switched on and from time to time the breeze blew a gust of spray in their faces.
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Women came out of their houses to turn on lawn sprinklers , soaking the marchers as they walked by.
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Remembering that what we were experiencing was meant to be enjoyable left our wits spinning like a lawn sprinkler .
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To return to the analogy of the lawn sprinkler and the rainstorm, both can explain how the driveway got wet.
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There was a movie theater playing True Grit and a plywood chapel with lawn sprinklers around it.
system
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That is supposed to be the sprinkler system for wetting down the dust.
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An example would be the installation of a sprinkler system that was forced on the tenant by the local fire authority.
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In common with all other forms of fire defence systems , however, a sprinkler system has limitations.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Access is very restricted to personnel and most systems are heavily protected by sprinklers.
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As a householder you should pay particular attention to outdoor threaded bib-taps which are usually used for garden hoses and sprinklers.
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Because sprinklers can wet the drive does not prove that they did wet the drive.
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Ian Durrant told me that later that the ball had bounced off a sprinkler head.
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Late in the second day, they passed miles and miles of spinach fields watered with sprinklers.
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That is supposed to be the sprinkler system for wetting down the dust.
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To return to the analogy of the lawn sprinkler and the rainstorm, both can explain how the driveway got wet.
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Women came out of their houses to turn on lawn sprinklers, soaking the marchers as they walked by.