I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a church tower
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I looked at the clock on the church tower.
a tower block (= very high and usually in a poor area )
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She lived on the 17th floor of a tower block in East London.
a towering cliff (= very high )
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the towering cliffs of Gibraltar
a towering rage (= extremely angry )
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He was in a towering rage.
an observation deck/platform/tower (= a structure that is built in order to observe something )
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The army built an observation tower on the top of the building.
conning tower
control tower
cooling tower
ivory tower
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an academic in an ivory tower
moutains soar/tower literary (= go very high into the sky )
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The distant mountains soar abruptly towards the sky.
observation tower
tower block
Twin Towers, the
water tower
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
central
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The central and western towers are heavy and solemn and the façade, though finely sculptured, is of recent restoration.
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The West Tower, where she lives, was completed first, followed by the South and Central towers .
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Many were of wood and featured fine carving, canopies, beautiful lamps, and central towers .
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This central tower represents a lighthouse, Holmes.
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Here, the old central tower over the crossing was replaced by the unique octagon and lantern.
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The crossing has very tall piers and arches under the central tower .
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Irkutsk acquired a massive station, with two central towers capped by domes and larger corner blocks with connecting wings.
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At Puebla, the Inter-Oceanic Station of the National lines was a solid stone range with a squat central tower .
cooling
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The power stations need much water for their boilers and cooling towers .
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Water Hygiene and Ventilation - the specialised cleaning service for industrial and commercial ventilation systems, water tanks and cooling towers .
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Water in cooling towers can be contaminated with legionella bacteria: surveys found the organism in 40-70 percent of hotels and hospitals.
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How about a new development strategy which concentrates heat-hungry projects in the shadows of the nation's cooling towers .
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We have a monthly cooling tower water treatment with your company, the service consultant is John Norris.
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Nothing breaches the flatness except some kind of smokestack or cooling tower a couple of miles to the north.
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Table 1 shows how often Legionella is found in hot and cold water systems and cooling tower water.
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These conditions are frequently found in cooling towers , hot water systems and header tanks.
great
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The building is surrounded by walls and the visitor enters through the great bell tower gateway.
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Some lawyers have come down from the great towers of our cities to where the people are-and they must.
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The great tower or Stump of St Botolph's church dominates both the town and the river which gave it its prosperity.
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The white buildings of the cortijo, with its great gate and tower , still dominated the yellow landscape.
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And the great tower remains unfinished.
high
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In the distance, above the roofs, the high towers of the adjoining sectors could be seen.
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A wondrous city, its high towers resembling the Jukeboxes of the Gods.
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The magnificent 90 foot high tower of Orford Castle offers extensive views of Orford, and the seashore nearby.
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In 1876 he built a high water tower , topped for a time with a telescope.
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Only the power of magic enabled the Elves to construct such a high tower .
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Relocating all tenants from high rise tower blocks to low rise housing requires enormous logistic skills.
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The bells were clanging in the high tower which soared up to a steel blue sky.
ivory
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Why did I not practice taxation or company law, for example, and live in an ivory tower ?
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I think you live in an ivory tower .
octagonal
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The octagonal tower window faced south but curved from west to east.
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Off one corner, an octagonal tower walled with mirrors Margarett left outdoors one winter to weather to an appropriate cloudiness.
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The octagonal crossing tower rises high with its spire.
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You can include an octagonal tower , a wraparound porch or a two-story vaulted-glass-walled kitchen.
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The house was tall, three storeys high, and the octagonal tower commanded a wide view of the promenade.
square
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At the new Chicago Grand Central of 1898-90, a striking office-block exterior was attached to a massive square corner tower .
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This square tower has circular turrets on each side, the whole making a fortified place of retreat.
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Strängnäs Cathedral has a large square western tower , though its apsidal east end presents the finest exterior view of the building.
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To my right, almost on the horizon, I thought I could see the square tower of a church.
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There is an immense square tower in the centre and a high pitched roof on either side of it.
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After being severely damaged in a storm, the spire was replaced with a square tower in 1969.
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It was a simple drawing of a square tower , standing in splendid isolation like an accusing finger pointing at the sky.
tall
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They are severely simple with tall towers and spires and lancet or geometrical window design.
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The purpose of the place was a vaulted whitewashed building with a tall bell tower .
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Many of these have tall towers , sometimes with spires, generally set at the west end.
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The 200-foot-\#tall circular tower is scheduled to open March 1.
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The exterior is plain and undistinguished but with a tall , elegant tower .
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It is a five-aisled hall church, entirely of brick and with a single, very tall western tower and spire.
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The exterior is large, forceful in design and has an impressive façade with tall towers .
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It has two tall Lombardic towers and three domes over the nave.
twin
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It is large, with tall, twin western towers and spires, nearly 400 feet high.
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At Forty-second Street stand the twin apartment towers of Manhattan Plaza, grim reminders of two more miserable affairs.
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The original station in Colombo had twin towers which housed the first and second-class booking offices at their bases.
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Kuala Lumpur has twin towers that are the tallest buildings in the world.
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Approach the old quarter from any direction, and the twin towers of the baroque cathedral dominate.
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It has tall, twin western towers and spires and a long nave and choir.
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It has twin west towers and gables with similar eastern towers flanking the apse.
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A number of façades, like those of Brussels and Antwerp Cathedrals, have twin western towers and portico below.
western
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Here is a stone, tall, well-proportioned cathedral, with western towers and spires, built on classic Latin cross plan.
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It is large, with tall, twin western towers and spires, nearly 400 feet high.
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The central and western towers are heavy and solemn and the façade, though finely sculptured, is of recent restoration.
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It is a five-aisled hall church, entirely of brick and with a single, very tall western tower and spire.
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Strängnäs Cathedral has a large square western tower , though its apsidal east end presents the finest exterior view of the building.
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It has tall, twin western towers and spires and a long nave and choir.
■ NOUN
bell
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The building is surrounded by walls and the visitor enters through the great bell tower gateway.
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We kissed, and every time the bell tower sounded, we listened attentively.
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Hollola is a fine country church with decorative gables and detached, classical bell tower added in 1848.
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Already heavily damaged by the September quakes, the Foligno bell tower lost more pieces Sunday during a series of quakes.
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The bell tower dates from the eleventh-century and is the oldest in the Lombardy Romanesque style that still exists.
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And then Madeleine ascends the mission bell tower .
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Lombard influence shows chiefly in the bell towers .
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In little villages it is often a white clapboard building with a hip roof and a bell tower .
block
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Competition entrants are asked to look at how to transform the tower block typology into a new type of community.
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A spokesman for the Housing Department would only say that the tower blocks had seemed a good idea at the time.
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And even more amazing that he can still squeeze through chimneys and central heating air vents in tower blocks .
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Only from the windows of a derelict tower block squatted by women was there any deliberately hostile response.
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And new cars shed their value faster than a Steinway falls from the top of a tower block .
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The tower block , the demolition, and Hugh bad now and dying in his bed.
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Glasgow certainly needs a modern landmark - something to deflect the eye from the miserable tower blocks of the 1960s.
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Maybe they had lived in one of his tower blocks .
church
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The church tower was altered in the 1950s and swifts can no longer get in.
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Beyond the inn a church tower perched in the tree-tops and behind it crowded high green sheltering hills.
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Allen had just been able to see the church tower .
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St Mary's Church tower presents an enigma.
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The most remarkable feature of Coningsby village is the single handed clock on St Michael's church tower .
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It would be surprising to find a chapel with such a substantial church tower so early.
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As the church clock struck twelve, they listened to the heavy notes ringing out from the church tower .
clock
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Some parts of the painting, such as the area around the clock tower are nearly finished at this stage.
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The famous clock tower stays as a permanent reminder.
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Only the clock tower on the stables showed from behind the trees.
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The only additions are the 30-year-old first pier and the clock tower seen in the distance.
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There is also an appealing clock tower , built in 1899.
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Henry was wasting his time and, as if to underline this fact, he glanced at the clock tower .
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The church dominates the commercial centre with its clock tower visible from the housing developments on the outskirts.
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A popular rendezvous and a familiar landmark with its prominent clock tower .
control
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Birkwood Lock, the first mechanized lock with control tower and traffic light gantry.
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He practiced landings on Sunday, then told the control tower that he would fly for another hour.
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The control tower staff saw the aircraft making a sharp left-hand climbing turn before it disappeared into thick low cloud.
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A window also was blown out of the control tower .
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Meanwhile, up in Duxford's control tower , John Allison was anxiously waiting.
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The quake shattered windows in the control tower at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport and forced the airport's immediate closure.
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Soon, Rob would take S-Sugar on to the runway and wait for clearance from the control tower .
house
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The dungeon tower houses craft workshops and the resident falconer gives regular displays.
observation
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For an overall impression of the site a visit is recommended to the top of the observation tower .
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I know people who like to lean over the edge of observation towers or ride the tallest roller coasters without holding on.
office
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A., when hundreds of covert jumps were carried out from the unfinished skeletons of office towers on Bunker Hill.
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At the Eighth Avenue end, nearest to the commercial district, there would be an office tower of about forty-five stories.
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So, beneath the site of the office tower , there was rock at seventeen feet.
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During a recent humid week, business people poured from soaring office towers .
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In exchange, it got the right to build two office towers adjacent to city hall.
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Plans were made for a fast-food restaurant across the Plaza at the foot of the office tower .
water
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The most distinctive land-mark in the parish is the Rimswell water tower , built in 1916 to serve South Holderness with water.
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Since time immemorial, boys have climbed the water tower .
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This pressure is maintained by means of water towers and gravity, or by booster pumping stations.
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A simple life, no one to worry about except yourself. --- Till you go and climb a water tower .
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In 1876 he built a high water tower , topped for a time with a telescope.
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Janey teetering on a ledge with a storm-gray New York cityscape behind her, water towers , sooty brick.
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Over the deserted houses, the water tower loomed.
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Even the water tower in Addison, a northern suburb, is bathed in blue light.
■ VERB
add
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In 1057 an immense stone tower was added .
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The Coast Guard also has said it has found no serious problems caused by adding the two towers .
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The construction will add two nine-story towers to the existing Headquarter5 Tower, which is connected to the Operations Building.
build
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Block play Building two towers with similar sized bricks, matching one-to-one to build towers of similar height.
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He built four massive towers , two on each side of the gorge, to support four cables.
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Robert Myle built one such tower on the Shore at the corner of Tower Street in 1685.
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For Charlie Swibel, building the apartment towers was coming a long way from being a flophouse and slum operator.
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Cities vied with each other to build more beautiful towers .
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In exchange, it got the right to build two office towers adjacent to city hall.
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They then raised the money to build a replica tower one-third the size in 1891.
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In 1876 he built a high water tower , topped for a time with a telescope.
climb
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She would climb a tower , look down and cry.
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Since time immemorial, boys have climbed the water tower .
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A simple life, no one to worry about except yourself. --- Till you go and climb a water tower .
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They climbed up to the small tower that was perched on top of the terminal building.
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Albert remained politely in the car while Rob climbed the water tower .
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The prince went all a-flutter as he climbed to a memorial tower on Scolty Hill in Banchory, Grampian.
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There is a rifle range and climbing tower .
stand
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Remembering how she had stood on the tower battlements the next morning, watching her knight ride away.
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At Forty-second Street stand the twin apartment towers of Manhattan Plaza, grim reminders of two more miserable affairs.
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We are standing outside the tower on the ledge.
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The outside of the base was a rectangular box and on it would stand the square-sided tower .
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Odonatist towers stand everywhere, glass towers resembling translucent vases.
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Then the chief stepped forward and stood by the conning tower hatch.
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In the middle stood a dark deserted tower .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
in a towering rage
please Sir/Mrs Towers etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a clock tower
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radio towers
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At Montego Bay there was an overall shed backed by a long building with an elaborate tower .
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In the distance, above the roofs, the high towers of the adjoining sectors could be seen.
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It bounced back on the field after it hit the tower , and Willie Mays retrieved it for me.
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The bell tower came into view, a square slim block of stone separated from the church by a dozen yards.
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The local army base, a corrugated fortress with a spindly camera tower , is pressed right up against a primary school.
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Then Henrietta and Samantha charged up to the tower , with Jacqueline stumbling after them, to quarrel about their bedrooms.
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Up ahead, the towers of New York Hospital rose straight up from the edge of the highway.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
above
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Ralph is now all alone against Jack's hunters, who tower above upon Castle Rock.
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Giles Cathedral towers above the Old Town.
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What sets it apart is its situation, with the massive range of the Taygetus mountains towering above .
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Occasionally the skeleton of a leafless flame tree towered above smaller shrubs.
over
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He towered over his foes, and was flailing at them two-handed.
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Big for his age, he towered over Garry who was eleven.
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Seeing him towering over the young hedgehog like that, licking his great, greedy chops ... Oh!
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It towered over the railway line and the makeshift station, a platform without a signboard.
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That was something else she found maddening, the fact that he towered over her.
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As it grew gradually nearer, and larger, they soon found it towering over them - a mighty steel fortress.
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Majestic snow-capped peaks towered over sweeping flower-strewn plains.
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He towered over everybody like a strapping Gallic chieftain.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As it grew gradually nearer, and larger, they soon found it towering over them - a mighty steel fortress.
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He stooped and towered above me.
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I stood there feeling ugly and out of place, a large man towering over this crumpled child.
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It towered so far above me I couldn't even see the top of it.
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The Cyclopes, too, were gigantic, towering up like mighty mountain crags and devastating in their power.
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They tower over the rest of the world in the Atlanta medals table.