noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
sleeping
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Carolyn sat on her bed and swallowed the sleeping tablets , washing each down with a mouthful of water.
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They were sleeping tablets to help me sleep.
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The sleeping tablets hadn't worked.
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Tranquillisers, anti-depressants, or sleeping tablets should only be taken if they are really needed.
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Montag returns home just after his first meeting with Clarisse to discover his wife has taken an overdose of sleeping tablets .
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I no longer need sleeping tablets , I no longer need the occasional valium.
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He didn't want to wake the sleeping tablets ?
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Clare had put her to bed and given her a mug of warm milk and two sleeping tablets .
■ NOUN
clay
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There is evidence that the Babylonians were using sine tables, recorded in cuneiform symbols on clay tablets , long before Hipparchus.
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The administration of each territory was finely tuned and certain aspects of it were recorded on clay tablets at the urban centres.
ecstasy
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Then she took out the ecstasy tablet and unwrapped it.
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She succumbs after being slipped an ecstasy tablet .
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Armed police found 21,000 ecstasy tablets .
form
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Also, try the herb Valerian, which can be taken in tablet form .
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In the case of most vitamin supplements which are available in tablet form , excess amounts are simply excreted by the body.
indigestion
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Eat smaller meals and try soda mints or indigestion tablets .
stone
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The villa location, largely hidden in undergrowth, is marked with a stone tablet erected by the Club.
vitamin
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All you get in Holloway is vitamin tablets or iron tablets.
■ VERB
find
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We found the salt tablets and a bottle of mineral water.
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Police raiding the riverboat party had found cocaine, ecstacy tablets , amphetamines and cannabis resin.
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You may find that pain-relieving tablets help.
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Anyone finding the tablets is asked to hand them into the police.
give
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I was patched up, had to see the doctor, was given some tablets and that was it.
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Joe had given him painkilling tablets to ease his discomfort, but this only made matters worse.
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This is not only important for giving tablets , but it also enables you to inspect their teeth.
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Eventually she managed to give him his tablet in a nice, juicy pear.
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If you got a headache or anything, the nurse would just give you daft little tablets for it.
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We gave her salt tablets and two of her own pills; her head wobbled loosely as she swallowed.
help
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Physiotherapy and anti-inflammatory tablets are helping to clear up tendonitis which forced him to return home early from Majorca earlier this month.
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They were sleeping tablets to help me sleep.
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One tablet daily will help give added protection during winter and throughout the school year.
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Just two tablets at bedtime will help you gently drift off.
keep
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Nevertheless we are told that he kept tablets or notebooks under his pillow, and would practise his letters from time to time.
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And so his advice is: keep taking the tablets .
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Taking the medicine Keep tablets and liquid medicines out of reach and sight of children.
sleep
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The threats broke Errol, and doctors prescribed Prozac for depression and sleeping tablets for insomnia.
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Sister Aimee died in 1944, from an accidental overdose of sleeping tablets .
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By the end of the Tour, you need sleeping tablets .
swallow
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Carolyn sat on her bed and swallowed the sleeping tablets , washing each down with a mouthful of water.
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An 11-month old baby died after accidentally swallowing a few laetrile tablets .
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She swallowed the tablets and drained the mug, feeling a great deal better.
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He was shivering again and he swallowed another handful of tablets from his waist pouch.
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After she had swallowed the sleeping tablets , Carolyn slept for fourteen hours.
take
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The girl has recovered from her wounds but is still taking tablets to sleep at night.
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Then she took three tablets and she killed herself.
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He's been taking tablets ever since and they appear to have controlled his condition.
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I was taking two tablets a day.
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My sister, who is 80, lives on her own and takes no tablets .
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After taking away our tablets , he made us recite what we had written.
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She woke the following morning and took more tablets .
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Constipation Moses took two tablets and went up the mountain.
use
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Try doing without sugar in beverages or use a tablet or liquid sweetener. 4 Avoid too much salt.
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I've had the experience a couple of times - just to use the tablets up.
write
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The political aims of the centre are not written on tablets of stone and handed down from the Mount.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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vitamin C tablets
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After she had swallowed the sleeping tablets, Carolyn slept for fourteen hours.
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Another method is to use Boots Sterotabs, £1.39 for 48 tablets.
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I was on tablets for two days and then taken off, just like that.
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It first appears in Linear B tablets from Pylos.
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Physiotherapy and anti-inflammatory tablets are helping to clear up tendonitis which forced him to return home early from Majorca earlier this month.
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Three empty bottles of anti-depressant tablets were by his side.