I.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a sworn statement (= one that you officially promise is true )
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The reports were based on sworn statements of graduates of the terrorist training camp.
sworn enemies (= enemies who will always hate each other )
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The men have been sworn enemies for many years.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
sb could have sworn (that) ...
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All of which is very curious we could have sworn Colin Milburn went to good old Greencroft comprehensive.
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Athelstan could have sworn he was acting as if there was some one else there.
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Corbett could have sworn that momentarily he glimpsed another figure, shadow-like, but fled on.
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He could have sworn the pile of letters had been deeper, that there had been many more.
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No, he recalled other sightings, so real you could have sworn they were alive ... until they vanished.
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She could have sworn the light had been yellow - pure yellow.
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The friar could have sworn that Sir John was singing a hymn or a song under his breath.
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The Myrcans looked on with what he could have sworn was approval.
II. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
enemy
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More and more the sworn enemies of Tokugawa political power openly flouted Bakufu authority.
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This killer dressed like a popinjay, sweetly singing a madrigal to men he knew were his sworn enemies .
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In the Fifties they were sworn enemies .
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It is a strange sister party which wants to see Labour's sworn enemies back in power.
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One minute they were sworn enemies , the next they were clinging together in fierce mutual desire.
statement
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Years later her parents made a sworn statement testifying that the couple had met in July 1917.
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The reports were based on sworn statements of graduates of the camp, whose seven-month training including the use of explosives.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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For self-defence therefore the sworn foresters were allowed to carry bows and arrows in the forest.
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Forest wardens, verderers, regarders, foresters and sworn jurors made presentments before them of offences against vert and venison.
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In the Fifties they were sworn enemies.
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It is a strange sister party which wants to see Labour's sworn enemies back in power.
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More and more the sworn enemies of Tokugawa political power openly flouted Bakufu authority.
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She had done nothing criminal; she had merely broken a sworn promise.
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This killer dressed like a popinjay, sweetly singing a madrigal to men he knew were his sworn enemies.
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Years later her parents made a sworn statement testifying that the couple had met in July 1917.