I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bus station (= a place where buses start and finish their journeys )
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Dad met me at the bus station.
a coach station
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You will go from Victoria Coach Station to Amsterdam.
a petrol station (= a place where you take your car to fill it with petrol )
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We'd better stop at the next petrol station.
a police station (= building where the police work )
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They took him down to the police station to ask him some questions.
a radio station (= an organization that broadcasts radio programmes )
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There are currently nearly 50 commercial radio stations.
a train pulls into/out of a station
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The train pulled into Euston station and I got off.
a weather station (= a place used for studying and recording weather conditions )
action stations
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Crew, return to action stations!
bus station
coach station
coal-fired/gas-fired power station
Coastguard station
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the Coastguard station at Stornoway
docking station
filling station
fire station
gas station
hill station
lifeboat crew/station/service
metro station
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a metro station
petrol station
police station
polling station
power station
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Chernobyl nuclear power station
railway station
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I’ll meet you outside the main railway station.
service station
space station
station break
station house
station master
station wagon
tracking station
train station
troops are stationed
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525,000 American troops were stationed in the country.
tune a radio to a station (= make it receive broadcasts from a particular station )
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The radio was tuned to a country-music station.
TV series/programme/show/station/channel etc
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a TV series based on the novel
way station
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The refugee camps, however dreadful, were a way station to their dream.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
filling
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For a moment he'd been near to panic as he realized that the pumps were rusty, the filling station obviously disused.
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A FILLING station and car showroom group, with sites in Darlington and on Wearside, has been put on sale.
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The application features a superstore, petrol filling station , car park and residential development.
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The real benefit, of course, comes at the filling station .
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Read in studio A man has foiled a raid at his local filling station despite being threatened with a hammer.
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There ahead, where a car swept round the dim curve past a filling station , was the road.
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He is also charged with driving away from a filling station without paying for petrol.
local
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And a phone-in programme on a local radio station produced a deluge of anti-Clough callers.
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Organize your friends, build a coalition of local groups, and call on your local station manager.
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National daily and Sunday newspaper cookery writers. Local radio stations .
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Phone calls to the local police station began a few minutes later.
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The band will also record public service announcements for local radio stations , urging petitions to protest the arrest.
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Your local police station should be able to mark your bike for you.
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The project began back in 1976 when I was working for Capital Radio, London's independent local radio station .
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They, in turn make a tape of an interview or discussion which is then distributed to most local radio stations .
main
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Rosslyn Castle Station was the main station for the mill during the war.
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These bronze fastenings protrude through the keel and would have secured the main station frames of the hull.
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The interview-rooms were away from the main police station .
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Start at the Bahnhofstrasse, leading from the main railway station towards the Paradeplatz and the lake.
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What are the names of the main power stations using coal?
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Eventually the bus load of children was dumped in the middle of Swindon at the main bus station .
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After a little while, cross the Ribeira dos Socorridos and reach the main electricity generating station in the island.
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Line 5 will also interchange with Line 1 and parallel Line 3 to the main Renfe station .
new
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Design faults meant that each new station required major alterations; any hope of a production line quickly went out the window.
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Or take the scene in a New York police station as portrayed in a television comedy.
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Inspector Brian Jaggs outside Braintree's new police station .
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Welcome to the San Diego airwaves, where two new classical stations compete for listeners and advertising dollars.
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Large new stations designed to do just that were built in these three cities after the Second World War.
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Under the current wording of the legislation, companies can only make profits from supplying electricity and building new power stations .
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The fire official said the new station was situated in Carryduff because of boundary changes in the area.
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This includes a hotel, nightclub, restaurants, new railway station and expansion of the ground.
nuclear
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Kelly has several nuclear stations as customers for his isolators.
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Moreover, to close all nuclear power stations would consign 100,000 workers to the dole queues.
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However sophisticated the safety designs incorporated into nuclear power stations , they can not overcome the human fallibility which can occur.
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The Government has also rejected calls for older Magnox nuclear power stations to be phased out to support a higher coal burn.
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A question at once comes to mind: how does one find qualified personnel to operate so many nuclear power stations ?
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Take away or subsidise all nuclear power stations and you lose the commercial logic of the privatisation plans.
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With a nuclear station decommissioning was a lengthy, expensive and potentially hazardous enterprise.
old
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We were on a cycling holiday and me being very interested in railways generally, liked looking over old stations .
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You can pick one up near the old railroad station that has been transformed into a visitor center.
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The old Colaba station was closed in 1930 when the massive Bombay Central was opened.
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Parked ahead on the distant corner was his old dusty station wagon.
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The old police station is now the health centre with four doctors and several community nurses.
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Machynlleth new station plus staff facilities very nice - old station disintegrating.
■ NOUN
bus
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When they're still young, girls hang around bus stations , leisure centres, bus shelters or each other's doorsteps.
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But really all I did was drive to the Hyannis bus station .
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Buses departing from the present bus station to be to the south only.
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He came into the bus station wearing jeans and a big smile.
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Then I calmed down and asked a safe-looking lady with children to show me the way to the bus station .
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Police are also checking bus stations and airports.
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I thought you said you saw him at the bus station this morning.
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She was headed for the bus station , I thought, and from there back to the Amtrak station in Denver.
fire
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The review would take away large areas covered by Buckley and Prestatyn retained fire stations .
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Ezra glanced through the dark to the fire station .
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Read in studio Crews from four fire stations threatened with closure have been holding a demonstration against the plans.
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Paramedics will be assigned to all 43 city fire stations instead of 23 as at present, starting July 1.
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I went into the fire station .
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That equipment is now being used by other fire stations , Gillis said.
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The train passed a fire station , a brewery, and over the wide murky river.
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Developers also face other fees to cover roads, fire stations , parks, libraries and other public improvements.
gas
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The gas station was an inferno.
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In many towns I stopped in, the public buildings were a store, a gas station , and a museum.
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Dangling from one hand he carried the object he had brought from the corpse-strewn forecourt of the gas station .
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Paul was injured during an attempted hold-up of the gas station in which he worked.
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I tried it on two teen-agers at a gas station .
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Upchatting girl from the gas station .
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A child is waiting for a ride even as we dawdle at the gas station .
petrol
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Several petrol stations and a building society in the town have already installed the equipment.
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The petrol station attendant told her to apply for more at the Kommandatur which turned out to be the old town hall.
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David was jailed for four years after robbing a petrol station to pay for his drug habit.
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It also plans to open the original shop and a petrol station .
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She was working as a petrol station cashier when armed robbers threatened her with a knife during a raid.
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A survey in Mid-Bedfordshire last month found 19 out of 46 sandwiches from petrol stations contained listeria.
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Police were alerted at Teignmouth in Devon after three men allegedly drove away from this petrol station without paying.
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I say nearly because he woke as I stopped at the next petrol station .
police
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The council hopes to use the County Buildings in Regent Street, the town's former police station .
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Or take the scene in a New York police station as portrayed in a television comedy.
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The men, all under 25, were questioned yesterday at Middlesbrough police station before being released on bail pending further investigations.
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Marchers who had cameras were forced to surrender their film, Fiim was also confiscated at the police station from those arrested.
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About 10 hours after the shooting the defendant attended the local police station with his attorney.
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Evidence is generally stored in a guarded locker in the police station until it is needed in court.
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I have been to every Metropolitan police station , from Islington in the north to Bow Street in the west.
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He had never been inside a police station , had never met a private detective, had never spoken to a criminal.
power
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On nationalisation, the divisions had acquired around 300 power stations , initially grouping them for management at an intermediate level.
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For two weeks at a time, each lunar power station is out of service.
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They spun round undisturbed in front of the nuclear power stations for several hours.
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No power station has ever created an electron, the source of our domestic electricity.
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Motor vehicles and coal-fired power stations are held to be the main offenders.
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Under the current wording of the legislation, companies can only make profits from supplying electricity and building new power stations .
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A power station could produce enough electricity to supply a small town.
radio
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The revolutionary radio stations are monitored daily and brief news bulletins circulated among the prisoners.
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He dialed the radio station , because Sands lived nearby and maybe somebody could run over and check on him.
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The decree also imposed strict censorship of the media, including the closure of opposition radio stations .
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Ringing from her local radio station , she heard her husband Duane is safe and sound.
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Currently, no company can own more than two radio stations per market.
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The £798 raised was donated to the hospital's radio station Crystal Radio.
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Some PROs have even been known to send pictures out to radio stations !
railway
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Behind the taxis is a crowded railway station and beyond that, the port.
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She had gone to the railway station to receive these consignments.
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Currency can be exchanged at railway stations .
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They checked the bus stops and railway stations .
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To start with it can replace taped announcements at railway stations , airports, etc.
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This was the railway station as town.
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A COP-A-GRAM who stripped in a busy railway station has escaped prosecution.
research
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These pilot projects represent in principle a transition phase between research station and the real world.
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It was founded in 1937 as a private, non-profit archaeological research station .
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Part of the money will also be used to refurbish the Signy research station .
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After their divorce Jane worked on, helped by students at the growing research station .
service
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Read in studio Police have opened a motorway service station to encourage drivers to take a break.
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Today, the town has a service station , convenience store, barber shop and a few smaller service businesses.
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Well, if you stop to fill up at a motorway service station your dreams could come true.
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Red Devil energy drink and Welcome Break service stations are running a competition to win the bike.
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Barclaycard says that holiday frauds are tracked in a variety of places, including service stations and nightclubs.
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Johnson was reading a local newspaper he had bought at the Frankenwald service station when his phone trilled discreetly.
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She pulled in at a motorway service station and decided on lunch.
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Turning off the motorway at the service station he entered a different world.
space
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The space station was an empty hulk.
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The vehicle can then rendezvous and dock with the space station with little further expenditure of fuel.
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The space station filled the front windows.
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The three-person Soyuz capsules will serve as lifeboats for crews stationed aboard the international space station during its assembly.
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The big Dalek Killer had seemed determined to bring the shuttle in at the top of the space station .
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S.-led international space station , as well as Department of Defense cargo and privately owned communications and Earth-observing satellites.
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An unsatisfactory outcome over the space station might make the money even less likely to materialise.
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Researchers hope to test the device aboard the new international space station .
television
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This led to great public cynicism now being manifested as pressure for democratic accountability in the state-run television station .
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But the councils have the power to investigate corruption and run their own radio and television stations .
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Philip Graham also bought the company's first two television stations .
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It also has a pending deal to buy six television stations and 24 radio stations of Heritage Media Group.
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If viewers had any complaint at all, it was that television stations devoted too much time to the war.
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The television stations were also unprepared.
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He was brought to the television station by special ambulance.
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So did the Contra Costa Times, his hometown paper, plus several local newspapers and television stations .
train
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Meanwhile a 24 year old man from Oxford was arrested later as he arrived at Oxford train station .
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Doyle remembers Gabby, an 8-year-old he first met eating discarded ice cream cones in the train station .
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Some men were lifting down milk cans that had just come from the train station .
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They will also meet you at the train stations .
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Hugh's Glasgow was a paradise of train stations and carpet factories.
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She arrived at the train station , with trunk, on August 6.
wagon
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Also there is no legal obstruction to you taking the coffin to the crematorium in a station wagon .
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On the opposite corner a dusty station wagon idled noisily at the red light.
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It was for the upper middle class in their station wagons that rumbled over our heads at night.
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Some children pass by, staring out of the back of a station wagon moodily.
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Some soccer moms waited in their minivans and station wagons , but none had their radios tuned to the presidential debate.
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The latest in the field are a soft top and station wagon Defender 90 models from Land Rover.
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The rotted-out Ford station wagon has been replaced.
■ VERB
arrive
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Meanwhile a 24 year old man from Oxford was arrested later as he arrived at Oxford train station .
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She arrived at the train station , with trunk, on August 6.
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Just before we arrived at the station , the lights came on.
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We finally arrive on station and are submerged by midmorning.
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He arrives at the police station .
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In many counties people only found out they were on the felons list when they arrived at the polling station .
build
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However, work on building Torness power station still continued.
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Under the current wording of the legislation, companies can only make profits from supplying electricity and building new power stations .
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Yet the temptation to build upwards for the station itself was resisted.
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Even if they keep within budget, nuclear plants are at least twice as expensive to build as coal stations .
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It was built as a side station with twin towers flanking the train-shed.
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New Zealand continued to build stations after the Second World War.
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The atom is there and when short-term oil surpluses vanish there will be pressure to build more nuclear power stations .
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Probably by encouraging the world's wealthy nations to build nuclear power stations so that other countries need not follow suit.
fill
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Fumes filled the station at Cowcaddens after a cable fire this afternoon.
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Neighborbood filling stations , laundries, and print shops suddenly find themselves facing an avalanche of rules and reporting requirements.
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Tesco has linked up to Equifax to combat card fraud at its filling station sites.
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Arthur Andersen was requested by Benzina management to provide assistance in determining the value of the petrol filling stations .
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The local filling station looks as if it has never been cleaned.
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With a projected increase in gas filling stations in the next few years, the private vehicle market will follow.
leave
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Before leaving the station she went to the Ladies' to check up on her appearance.
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The mouths and the dialogue are like trains leaving different stations at different times, in different directions.
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The enormous cost of engineering the lines ensured that little money was left for the stations .
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About a quarter of those commuters were left standing at the station .
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So much capital went into the engineering and the track that little was left for the stations .
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But he couldn't just leave her at the station .
poll
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However, polling stations were not opened in parts of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
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In many counties people only found out they were on the felons list when they arrived at the polling station .
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Some lingering disputes over voting procedure in a small number of polling stations may delay proceedings.
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Mr Berisha's Democratic party alleged widespread electoral fraud by the government and intimidation of polling station officials by the police.
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Elsewhere, voting was generally quiet, with only small official demonstrations outside polling stations .
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On the eve of the ballot, concerns persisted about independent monitoring, the location of polling stations , and increased violence.
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For the 1991 elections, the polling station in Lalmatia Girls High School had been in a festive mood.
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This made it easier for absentee owners to vote than for locals, since locals had to get to the polling station .
pull
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He pulled into the station car park, slammed on the brakes, and made no effort to get out of the van.
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I pulled into a gas station this morning.
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Some one uncoupled that car at Cartier and rigged some way of pulling it out of the station into the darkness before releasing it.
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Back at work the next day, the cars may pull up to docking stations and pump electricity into offices or factories.
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It was like the noise made by a steam locomotive pulling out from a station .
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Fifteen minutes later the locomotive will pull out of the station hauling an express for London.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
panic stations
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Suddenly the sound Swindon defence was at panic stations.
pirate radio/TV (station)
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That's our very own pirate radio.
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Unfortunately Phil had unwittingly chosen a bad time to clash with the pirate radio vessel.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a bus station
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a radar station
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A reporter from a local television station was sent to interview Shaw.
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Buck was sports director at radio station KMOX in St. Louis.
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I'll meet you at the train station .
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I need to stop at the gas station on the way home.
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See if you can find a country music station .
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She works for a television station in Utah.
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What station are you listening to?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At least two stations went bust, and others, such as Invicta Radio in Kent, had to relaunch before getting firmly established.
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Like a mutant, the intercept station consists only of an ear and a brain connected by a coaxial auditory nerve.
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Oil can be used for many things, from running cars to fueling power stations.
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Ross estimated that Disney could sell the independent station for $ 300 million to $ 400 million.
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The parallel Altländerstrasse was also used by many as short-cut to the station .
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The technique would, however, decrease the efficiency of power stations between 10 and 30 percent, hence the price rise.
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They are usually placed in factories and offices, or in public places such as railway stations.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
here
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There have been seven boats stationed here since 1875, the first four pulling-and-sailing types, the last three motor-driven.
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If only we had access to such diversity on stations here in Tucson.
there
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He assumed that a porter or janitor was usually stationed there to be on call or to answer enquiries.
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When we were stationed there , I used to go around Danang.
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The men began to hand in their weapons to their officers, stationed there for that specific purpose.
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Later, the family moved to Churchtown, Dublin, when his father was stationed there in the late 1950s.
■ NOUN
army
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These two sources of evidence together imply the presence of detachments of the field army stationed in both major and minor towns.
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At the time Shipley was approached, he was still in the Army , stationed in Washington.
city
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Mr Rodetsky's supporters claim that television stations in the northern cities denied him television time due to him by law.
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James A.. Ruffin, 33, a Baltimore native who oversees three recruiting stations in the city .
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Police dispersed the crowds with teargas, and tanks were stationed in the city .
gas
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Mechanics were needed to keep them running, gas stations to fuel them, insurance agents to insure themthe list is endless.
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The brownfields range widely in size, from half-acre former gas stations to 700-acre shuttered steel plants.
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Some small gas stations like Torreson's, known for their low prices, ended up with the highest prices.
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K., giving it 2, 150 gas stations .
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There are more antique stores than supermarkets, more cafes than gas stations .
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The Conch had once been a gas station .
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Chicago-based Amoco Corp. is building 60 gas stations for $ 60 million.
police
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War veterans, in many rural areas, have taken control of police stations in villages.
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Rats gnawed on black infants' feet, while money was used to build new police stations around the corner.
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Two officers on a police patrol launch stationed just across the river at Westminster Pier saved the youngster's life.
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A police station , so help me, is a piece of the action.
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Army and police trucks were stationed outside the empty school.
power
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They will be the first power stations in the world to use olive residues to generate electricity.
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The group bought 51 percent of Inversiones Tocopilla Ltda, which in turn owns 51 percent of the power station .
radio
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Baker circulated the tape to newspapers and radio and television stations in the Amarillo area.
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Tens of thousands of people have been deported or displaced and radio stations blare out vitriolic propaganda against one another.
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There are no high-powered radio or television stations , and only a few electric-power transmission lines crisscross the rugged landscape.
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These days there are hundreds of newspapers, including four competing dailies, and a handful of independent television and radio stations .
service
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The ban on the sale of alcohol at garages and motorway service stations remains.
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Conoco currently operates in 37 states from Texas to Montana, with 5, 125 service stations bearing the Conoco name.
space
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The vehicle returning from the Moon can get to the space station for unloading and refueling in either of two ways.
television
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These days there are hundreds of newspapers, including four competing dailies, and a handful of independent television and radio stations .
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Baker circulated the tape to newspapers and radio and television stations in the Amarillo area.
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Newsweek magazine, which her husband had bought in 1961; and two television stations .
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Some public television stations applauded the new initiative as something of a programming coup.
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Mr Rodetsky's supporters claim that television stations in the northern cities denied him television time due to him by law.
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There are no high-powered radio or television stations , and only a few electric-power transmission lines crisscross the rugged landscape.
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Diller reportedly is trying to build a national network of television stations that would offer sports and entertainment programming.
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Newspaper owners should not also own television stations in the communities in which they publish.
train
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It was on Maxwell Street, not far from the train station .
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The train station , the border, the ship.
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The picnickers rushed off the train at Minnehaha station and made a beeline for the pavilion to claim a good table.
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I write down new kanji announcing the names of stops we see in train and subway stations .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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My father was stationed in Europe during World War II.
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There were police officers stationed at every exit.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Kate sat in the back next to the luggage, but Ace had stationed himself in front with the pilot.
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Reeves continued his military career, was promoted to sergeant and was often stationed overseas while his wife remained in Copperas Cove.
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These officials were responsible for the collection of revenue and the general administration of the districts where they were stationed.