I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a knee/heart/stomach etc operation
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He is almost back to full fitness after a knee operation.
a stomach bug ( also a tummy bug more informal )
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He’s off school with a stomach bug.
arm/leg/stomach etc muscles
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Her leg muscles ached after the run.
back/chest/stomach etc pain
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Many people suffer from back pain.
kick sb in the stomach/face/shin etc
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There was a scuffle and he kicked me in the stomach.
lung/breast/stomach etc cancer
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Smoking causes lung cancer.
stomach pump (= for removing the contents of someone’s stomach )
stomach pump
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
empty
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No use mourning on an empty stomach .
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The wine Adrienne had kept passing to her was taking hold of an empty stomach .
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An empty stomach and the pain of her ankle had been too much for her.
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I tend to be very short-tempered on an empty stomach .
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She got it shut, and leaning with difficulty to the jolting bowl, she vomited colourless fluids from her empty stomach .
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She saw an empty stomach , her cause for existence.
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Besides, he had chosen a tasty nourishing meal which would not lie too heavily on her achingly empty stomach .
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Alendronate must be taken only with a full glass of plain water, first thing in the morning on an empty stomach .
full
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Things always looked better on a full stomach , and right now she was ravenous.
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Then there's that chocolate mocha and peanut crunch mousse that manages to find its way to my nearly-\#full stomach .
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She knew what was good for children, and a full stomach was very dangerous to their health.
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And the note said, Mere mortals forgive better on a full stomach , so how about dinner on Saturday?
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Whatever, my guide saw dignity and a full stomach .
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To be a free-dinner kid was to enjoy a full stomach every single day of the week, puddings and all.
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On a full stomach , too.
sick
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He was sick to his stomach .
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I felt sick to my stomach .
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She felt sick to the stomach .
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Closing the file, Rainville felt sick to her stomach .
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She began to shiver, feeling sick to her stomach .
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The delay made Ledyard so upset that he became sick to his stomach .
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Sometimes I rolled down the slope again and again, until I was sick to my stomach .
strong
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This surprised me, since I had always had quite a strong stomach when faced with dissections.
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If we are to meet at sea, I hope your President has a stronger stomach than you.
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Many of the details of the experiments came to light only in the 1970s, and reading them requires a strong stomach .
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There also is a rocking chariot, which Brown recommends only to the strong of stomach .
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The smell was bad enough to turn the strongest stomach , and his heart was pounding away like a road drill.
upset
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Backache, headache, insomnia, upset stomach , irritability.
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He missed the 2-2 draw with Boro because of an upset stomach . and reserve Iain Jenkins is standing-by.
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Wainwright will play despite having returned from representing the Barbarians in the Hong Kong Sevens suffering from an upset stomach .
■ NOUN
bug
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Could it be just a particularly nasty stomach bug that was taking its sweet time about leaving?
cancer
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They have also been linked inconclusively with stomach cancer .
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The researchers used a cancer registry and found that 419 were diagnosed with stomach cancer by 1992.
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Last year he buried his wife after she died from stomach cancer .
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An old man named Captain Stephenson is dying of stomach cancer in a Bay Area hospital.
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Abdominal symptoms brought her to a medical examination, at which a stomach cancer with metastases was diagnosed.
cramp
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Why, then, should I be moved by cold or a stomach cramp ?
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Too much dried fruit at one time can cause stomach cramps , gas and even diarrhea.
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Midway through the fourth lap, I began to develop stomach cramps .
disorder
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Janov details changes in tension headaches, heart rates, blood pressure, skin disorders , stomach disorders and much else.
muscle
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Northern's biggest setback came with the loss of midfield maestro Deryck Fox with pulled stomach muscles .
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Byrd had his arm broken, Noville had his stomach muscles torn.
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My stomach muscles were up to it, but I didn't want to lose any more teeth.
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Using his arms and stomach muscles , trying to keep his chest still, he sat.
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A day later, the tissue was inserted between stomach muscles , just above the bellybutton, where blood supply is plentiful.
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Then, glancing quickly at Jem, he slowly climbed the stairs, feeling his bruised stomach muscles protest with every step.
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Star Damon Bailey is playing with a torn stomach muscle .
pain
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The pretty presenter was taken by ambulance to London's Charing Cross Hospital at 6 am with terrible stomach pains .
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Two days later, after refusing to eat and complaining of stomach pain , Jimmy was hospitalized.
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Afterwards he suffered severe stomach pains .
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This plant, he explained, cured stomach pains and promoted circulation of the blood.
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Barbara Garnett, 74, was rushed in after complaining of severe stomach pains .
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People eating contaminated whipped cream quickly become ill with stomach pains .
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Whilst in Fort William she was taken ill with stomach pains .
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Eleven potions are spoiled, and drinking any of these just gives a character stomach pains for D6x10 Turns.
trouble
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Mrs Menzies had died five years before, killed by malaria and stomach trouble from their time in Bengal.
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The breed is prone to occasional stomach troubles and bouts of enteritis so a good-quality diet is essential.
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Got some stomach trouble and I was advised to go to Vichy and Wiesbaden and take the waters.
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A young heifer with a bit o' stomach trouble , ah think.
ulcer
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He's said to be acutely depressed, and is also thought to have a stomach ulcer .
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Uncle Hal was an authority on many things, including stomach ulcers .
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Nausea and vomiting, stomach ulcers , frequent indigestion, loss of appetite.
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Very late in life, bald with worry and eaten by a stomach ulcer , her father became a dentist.
■ VERB
feel
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She felt sick to the stomach .
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I felt sick to my stomach .
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She began to shiver, feeling sick to her stomach .
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Closing the file, Rainville felt sick to her stomach .
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Suddenly Mungo felt dread in his stomach like indigestion.
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I felt my stomach tighten, unreason bubbling, rising.
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He felt his stomach heave and he retched against the wall.
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You notice a funny feeling in your stomach , in fact it feels a little queasy.
hit
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Duvall had hit Jimmy in the stomach .
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Eddie dodged it and hit him in the stomach twice.
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As the strong-armed man turned towards him Blake hit him in the stomach .
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His strategy: Hit me in the stomach , make me miss school and watch those sympathy votes come rolling in.
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Mr Ali, 25, was hit in the stomach and had to have his gall bladder removed.
hold
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The black, who had stopped the back-kick, sat beside him with grey lips, holding his stomach and only semi-conscious.
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He held his stomach and cried out in pain.
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Keep your feet and hips still and keep facing forwards. Hold your stomach in during the twists.
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He was holding his stomach , and staring back at us.
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He was still holding his stomach , but Ace couldn't see the damage there.
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The wind knocked out of her, Jonnie held her stomach , waited to breathe again before rushing the younger woman.
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Anne, whining and holding her stomach , fell on to the bed and buried her face in a pillow.
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I picked up the stone and held it against my stomach .
kick
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Haines fell over and a Corporal kicked him in the stomach , shouting at him to stand up.
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I felt like I had been kicked in the stomach .
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She get up, she get down, she roll, she kick the stomach , like crazy woman.
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Another kicked me in the stomach .
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Go on, I said to myself, trample on his face, kick him in the stomach .
lie
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Like the male her hands were tied at the wrists as they lay on her stomach .
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Alternatively, she could lie on her stomach with a hot wet towel or a hot-water bottle placed on her buttocks.
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I lay on my stomach , on his bed, a white gym-towel under my belly.
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You start by lying on your stomach with your legs out straight behind you and your arms straight at your sides.
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Dunn, lying on his stomach , saw a machine-gunner outlined only ten feet away.
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But she was lying on her stomach , her face to the rug.
turn
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And the rich, savoury smell of the hare drifted down to meet her, turning her stomach .
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It was in the air, all right, a stink that turned his stomach .
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At once he turned on to his stomach and tried to get him self on all fours.
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That night I turned on my stomach , mouth in the pillow, and the bed moved beneath me.
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Her hands held the back of his neck, then loosened, and she turned on to her stomach but not in retreat.
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She turned over on to her stomach and tried to put things into perspective.
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Sethe started to turn over on her stomach but changed her mind.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(stomach) cramps
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Midway through the fourth lap, I began to develop stomach cramps .
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Too much dried fruit at one time can cause stomach cramps , gas and even diarrhea.
do sth on an empty stomach
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I overslept and had to go to class on an empty stomach.
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You shouldn't take the pills on an empty stomach.
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Alendronate must be taken only with a full glass of plain water, first thing in the morning on an empty stomach.
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I mean, neither of us had eaten since the early hours, and drinking on an empty stomach is dodgy.
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I tend to be very short-tempered on an empty stomach.
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No use mourning on an empty stomach.
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The next two got off more lightly: two spoonfuls of vinegar three times a day, also on an empty stomach.
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The sensation of nausea on an empty stomach was peculiarly unpleasant.
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There was little point, Manville decided, on a man eating on an empty stomach.
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They report to work at 8.30am on an empty stomach.
have your stomach pumped
have/get butterflies (in your stomach)
in/at the pit of your stomach
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He was developing a peculiar feeling in the pit of his stomach; a feeling beyond sickness, beyond shock.
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I felt a twinge in the pit of my stomach.
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Now suddenly she could feel the pleasure such imaginings had aroused uncurling in a warm spiral in the pit of her stomach.
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She closed her eyes for a moment, fighting the tremor that began somewhere in the pit of her stomach.
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She watched as he crossed the meadow and felt the familiar jolt in the pit of her stomach as he came near.
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When that first cup of coffee was finished, a ball of fear nestled in the pit of my stomach.
stomach upset
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Additionally, many people report stomach upsets , ear infections and rashes after coming into contact with the lake water.
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Carbon monoxide can cause headaches and stomach upsets or, at worse, be fatal.
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If you had a stomach upset you were sent to Mrs. Sutton who sold you a powder for tuppence.
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In general, children and adults should not be given too much milk to drink if they are recovering from a stomach upset .
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John King makes a late shuffle after Neil McNab goes down with a stomach upset .
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Some even insert caffeine suppositories before a race in an attempt to provide a sustained dose with no stomach upset .
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The cold symptoms, the stomach upset , the fevers all pointed to flu.
upset stomach
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Backache, headache, insomnia, upset stomach, irritability.
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He missed the 2-2 draw with Boro because of an upset stomach. and reserve Iain Jenkins is standing-by.
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Wainwright will play despite having returned from representing the Barbarians in the Hong Kong Sevens suffering from an upset stomach.
upset your stomach
your heart/stomach lurches
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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He turned around and punched Steve in the stomach .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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An appendix scar was lightly etched on his stomach above the Speedo.
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But that night, after dinner, he began to groan and Lula noticed that his stomach was distended.
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I could discipline my raging stomach no longer.
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Sethe looked down at her stomach and touched it.
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Then, so it seemed, an elephant stood on my stomach .
II. verb
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(stomach) cramps
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Midway through the fourth lap, I began to develop stomach cramps .
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Too much dried fruit at one time can cause stomach cramps , gas and even diarrhea.
do sth on an empty stomach
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I overslept and had to go to class on an empty stomach.
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You shouldn't take the pills on an empty stomach.
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Alendronate must be taken only with a full glass of plain water, first thing in the morning on an empty stomach.
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I mean, neither of us had eaten since the early hours, and drinking on an empty stomach is dodgy.
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I tend to be very short-tempered on an empty stomach.
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No use mourning on an empty stomach.
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The next two got off more lightly: two spoonfuls of vinegar three times a day, also on an empty stomach.
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The sensation of nausea on an empty stomach was peculiarly unpleasant.
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There was little point, Manville decided, on a man eating on an empty stomach.
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They report to work at 8.30am on an empty stomach.
have/get butterflies (in your stomach)
in/at the pit of your stomach
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He was developing a peculiar feeling in the pit of his stomach; a feeling beyond sickness, beyond shock.
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I felt a twinge in the pit of my stomach.
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Now suddenly she could feel the pleasure such imaginings had aroused uncurling in a warm spiral in the pit of her stomach.
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She closed her eyes for a moment, fighting the tremor that began somewhere in the pit of her stomach.
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She watched as he crossed the meadow and felt the familiar jolt in the pit of her stomach as he came near.
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When that first cup of coffee was finished, a ball of fear nestled in the pit of my stomach.
stomach upset
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Additionally, many people report stomach upsets , ear infections and rashes after coming into contact with the lake water.
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Carbon monoxide can cause headaches and stomach upsets or, at worse, be fatal.
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If you had a stomach upset you were sent to Mrs. Sutton who sold you a powder for tuppence.
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In general, children and adults should not be given too much milk to drink if they are recovering from a stomach upset .
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John King makes a late shuffle after Neil McNab goes down with a stomach upset .
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Some even insert caffeine suppositories before a race in an attempt to provide a sustained dose with no stomach upset .
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The cold symptoms, the stomach upset , the fevers all pointed to flu.
upset stomach
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Backache, headache, insomnia, upset stomach, irritability.
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He missed the 2-2 draw with Boro because of an upset stomach. and reserve Iain Jenkins is standing-by.
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Wainwright will play despite having returned from representing the Barbarians in the Hong Kong Sevens suffering from an upset stomach.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Of course, investors who buy into Telescan must be able to stomach short-term volatility.
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Somewhat strangely, the loss makes Tyson a bit easier to stomach .
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Soused herring was the standard hospital breakfast and she declared she couldn't stomach that at seven o clock in the morning.