I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a spy plane
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An unmanned US spy plane had been shot down.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
foreign
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News from foreign courts, spies , envoys, merchants and other clerks.
soviet
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They thought he was a Soviet spy .
■ NOUN
chief
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As spy chief , Mr Montesinos visited Guzman at the naval base on several occasions to question him.
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Yeltsin picked Yevgeny Primakov, a spy chief , for foreign minister.
network
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And who could be sure that such secrets could be kept from the spy network still strong in every dormitory and classroom?
plane
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At one point U.S. military and intelligence services had 17 spy planes over Escobar's home city of Medellin.
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The main culprit is the Pioneer, a smaller, less advanced spy plane that the Hunter was supposed to replace.
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So did our successful interception of your spy plane .
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They were here to defend the heavens against high-altitude spy planes .
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It is a little more complicated to copy a spy plane , but George Bush has a similar problem right now.
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I heard over the voice of america that they released Powers the U2 spy plane fellow.
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These bats are like miniature spy planes , bristling with sophisticated instrumentation.
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But everyone gave the spy plane , nicknamed the Dragon Drone, high marks for simplicity and usefulness.
ring
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Secret files reveal an Oxford spy ring .
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It suggests there was an Oxford spy ring in the 1930s which passed secrets to the Soviet Union.
satellite
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During the Kosovo conflict, the thick cloud meant that some unmanned aerial vehicles took more useful pictures than spy satellites .
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These spy satellites were to be in place within a few years to monitor all Soviet military activities.
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It is generally believed that the earliest Soviet military use of photographic imaging spy satellites was in 1962.
story
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Tolstoy, Hemingway and Hardy, thrillers and spy stories , historical novels, light romances.
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There must be a spy story in here somewhere.
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She had been reduced to using ploys straight out of spy stories .
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It was very small, and in the best spy stories wouldn't have been noticed.
thriller
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We had been involved in an historical adventure as gripping as any detective tale or spy thriller .
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By his bed was the same spy thriller , still open at the page where he had left it.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
nest of spies/thieves/intrigue etc
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Neville Chamberlain wrote that the Cabinet was a nest of intrigue, which was, considering everything, an understatement.
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Perhaps we're in the middle of a nest of spies whom Meredith-Lee was about to unmask.
suspected burglar/terrorist/spy etc
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He was attacked in Sandbach after confronting a suspected burglar.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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an enemy spy
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He had been accused of spying and held without trial for ten years.
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He was suspected of having been a spy during the war.
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The 11 men had allegedly been involved in spying.
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The job of the secret police was to hunt down spies and traitors.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A spy pays for himself twice, because there's always the reward when we turn him in.
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A sort of known and often welcome spy .
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In any case, I don't think I'd make a very good spy .
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
on
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Lili sensed that she was being spied on , but she didn't care.
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He spied on Agnes, he hated to admit it.
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It was my favorite wedding ever, although I think the wedding I spied on went well, too.
out
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She would spy out the lie of the land and write to him.
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She enticed into her house the party Odysseus dispatched to spy out the land, and there she changed them into swine.
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Certainly he would have gone down there alone to spy out the land and check on his property.
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Rex spied out Sam Maggott hollering at all and sundry and making good use of his over-sized red gingham handkerchief.
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He also spied out the Tomorrowman's barman.
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Well, he kept taking a few sips and peeping around the door to spy out the whereabouts of the principal.
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I just wish they spied out something more entertaining than water and doctors.
■ NOUN
land
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Certainly he would have gone down there alone to spy out the land and check on his property.
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She enticed into her house the party Odysseus dispatched to spy out the land , and there she changed them into swine.
■ VERB
accuse
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They are being held hostage with three other peacekeeping officials after being accused of spying for the Phnom Penh Government.
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He is accused of spying for more than 15 years in exchange for $ 1.4 million in cash and diamonds.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A former US diplomat has confessed to spying.
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For years the satellite spied on secret weapon bases.
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I spied him standing on the other side of the room.
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Philby had been spying for the Russians for several years.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Boxing: Jacobs spies the ladder.
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He said Hanssen had begun spying in 1979 and stopped voluntarily in 1981.
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Lili sensed that she was being spied on, but she didn't care.
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Pope has insisted he was not spying and the materials he purchased were not secret.
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There was no way I was going across to follow Ewen Mackay to spy on his activities at the house.
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Wilkinson spied a conspiracy to resist all the evidence that this chemical was dangerous.