noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
alfresco lunch/supper etc
buffet breakfast/lunch/supper
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The price includes morning coffee, buffet lunch, and afternoon tea.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
early
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I went home to the cottage, had an early supper , then set off on the walk to the post office.
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Choir night, so I get myself an early supper .
late
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Kim spends most of her time in the kitchen, charting the progress of her late supper .
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I arrived late for supper , having got stuck in the flats with my boat.
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Suppose they go out for a late supper ?
light
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On Thursday night we had a light supper after we'd registered and unpacked our things.
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They suggest serving it for a light supper with couscous and a mesclun salad dressed with raspberry vinaigrette.&038;.
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He left for a light supper with Butch and Caduta at the Cicero.
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They had a light supper , played backgammon for dimes, sat listening to records in the living room.
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Robin's wife was providing a little light supper .
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The ticket price of $ 20 includes a light supper .
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Thirty-Seven On the table was a light supper , white wine in a cooler, candles in silver candlesticks.
■ NOUN
buffet
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After the visits, guests and Faculty members will join together for a buffet supper .
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Tickets to include champagne reception and buffet supper £57.50 from At Logiealmond Lodge, Perthshire.
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A buffet supper was served and a lot of goodwill was generated.
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A buffet supper will be served from 6.45 p.m.
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Tickets, to be bought in advance, are £4.50 and include a buffet supper .
room
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Lucille and the Countess sat by the supper room entrance.
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In the supper room Auguste would be running around like a scalded cat, metaphorically if not literally.
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Auguste went to superintend the tables in the supper room while Boris floundered around below.
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In the supper room Auguste lined up his troops for the fray.
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Toby was persuading a buxom young waitress to bring him a bottle of champagne from the supper room .
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He dodged past the few remaining couples who still danced, then turned into the supper room .
table
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But tiresome authority deems that tickling a trout or two or felling the odd wild duck for the supper table is illegal.
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Several times that weekend around the supper table , he recited his own high school valedictorian speech.
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My vision of firelight and supper table and the friendly game of chess had been accurate enough.
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We sat long over the supper table pondering the incident.
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As soon as they heard the angelus ring they gathered from all over the big house to the supper table .
time
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Nico, our host, serves cool drinks and limited snacks in the bar downstairs till supper time .
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I said, looking at my watch; it was almost supper time .
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Cake is always so perfect with coffee at supper time .
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By that time , way past my supper time, all I wanted to see was a menu.
■ VERB
bring
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I took out some of the bread and cold meat roll I had brought as my supper .
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The idea of a guest bringing his own supper !
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Will we for ever be free to roam the underwater kingdom, to bring home our supper ?
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Go on down there with the boys and bring home some supper .
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He's not bringing me any supper .
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No one had come to bring her supper .
come
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Polidori came down to supper and sat next to me without saying anything.
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When Frank came back after supper , we started out for the fields.
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Mrs Patten will come in about supper .
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No one had come to bring her supper .
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After that Travis came to supper regularly.
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Get in touch on your return and come to supper .
cook
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Mrs McGill fries bread for breakfast, takes Chas to bed, cooks supper , lights oil lamp and nurses Nana.
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They had cooked groats for supper .
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While Janine and John cooked supper , he led us on a trek through the woods and around the two-mile meadow.
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I was starting to think about cooking some supper when I heard music.
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He left them cooking each other supper and drinking brandy.
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After dark, I got under cover to cook my supper .
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Time and again he had asked her to cook them for his supper , when she could at least bake them in a hot oven.
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Little groups stood about talking of the war or Brighton or what they were going to cook for supper .
eat
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I remembered I had brought it up to eat as supper and had fallen asleep.
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Dorothy ate a hearty supper and was waited upon by the rich Munchkin himself, whose name was Boq.
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It seemed inevitable after this that he should take himself to the nearest fish and chip shop to eat his supper .
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Nedim and Adi are there, eating their supper .
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Mr Singh was eating his supper , which looked very peculiar, all brown, and smelled delicious.
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She had to talk to him ... She couldn't eat any supper .
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The princes ate their supper in silence, neither of them having much appetite.
eaten
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After the four had eaten supper , Marlowe and Frizer quarrelled over who was to pay the bill.
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Hunger pangs-I had not eaten supper .
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It can also be eaten as a supper dish with a salad.
finish
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When he had finished his supper , he pushed the dishes to the other end of the table.
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When he finishes his supper , the boy tucks the lunch box back into a shopping bag and closes his eyes.
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In the dining-room, Goo-Goo was just finishing his unexpected supper .
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Maybe Omite would come back after the soldiers had finished supper .
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When we got back, some of the men were asleep and some were finishing their supper .
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It took an entire day of buses and hitching to get back to camp and when I did they'd finished supper .
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They had just finished supper and the girls were helping with the dishes.
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By that time, the staff in the kitchen have finished clearing up the supper things.
get
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Leaving the tower to its darkness and its solitude, he went into Mill Cottage to unpack and get his supper .
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She went to work getting my supper ready.
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I must go now and you get ready for supper with the merchant fellow.
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Toto ate a little of everything, and was glad to get a good supper again.
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In the evening I get supper and we've eaten and washed up by eight.
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It's so nice in here, not worrying about other people, or getting supper , or anything.
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Clear off and get your supper , the pair of you.
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Choir night, so I get myself an early supper .
go
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I got up and went down for supper .
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It was only when she went to supper that she found the reason why.
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All that winter, Charlie and I went out after supper and walked.
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My father never went to bed without supper , nomatterwhat happened.
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They shook hands and got in their cars and went home to supper .
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Then she went to have supper with Mr Wood and Linda.
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We fought once more, and went home to supper .
invite
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He and his wife Lida invited us to supper .
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It happened that on that same night Leith had invited Rosemary to supper .
leave
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I told Mrs Viney to leave our supper ready.
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He left them cooking each other supper and drinking brandy.
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He left for a light supper with Butch and Caduta at the Cicero.
make
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He had set the video up earlier in the evening while Elaine was making supper .
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Then she got up to make a salad for supper .
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Hence they would be no good for making supper directly, though they could construct a plan for making supper.
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Should she make supper for me?
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Hence they would be no good for making supper directly, though they could construct a plan for making supper.
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I forgot to make you some supper .
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Nora makes a supper of groats and curly kale.
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The long drive had tired her out and Jenna made her supper and went to bed quite early.
prepare
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She wondered if she should prepare something for their supper .
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There they will supervise their cooks in preparing supper for the husbands, who will troop home after Happy Hour.
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A man was preparing something for supper at a table.
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Which did seem to point to some one who knew about the curry soup being prepared for supper .
serve
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Aunt Edie served up a supper of fried eggs, bacon and tomatoes with bread and butter.
sit
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Lucille and the Countess sat by the supper room entrance.
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All I did was sit down for supper ! and I get cussed out twice.
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We sat long over the supper table pondering the incident.
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Needing time to reminisce before looking at the films, we sat down for supper .
stay
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They sent me to bring him his tea, they seated me next to him whenever he stayed to supper .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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After supper we watched a video.
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I had my supper and went to bed.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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About three weeks after I moved in, she invited me around to her flat for supper one evening.
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After dark, I got under cover to cook my supper .
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At supper that night he tried to describe the experience to Kathy.
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Dishy meals Whether you want inspiration for a light lunch or an impressive supper , we can provide it.
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She was going to sell herself - she has sold herself by now - and would have sold me - for supper .
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So after supper with the Miyako divers I went with Nina to check that he was all right.
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The suppers became a huge success.
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We boil the rice and eat it cold with milk for supper .