I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a car/bus/train etc ride
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The resort is a short bus ride away from the hotel.
a car/train/plane etc crash
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He was badly hurt in a car crash.
a commuter train/plane (= a train or plane that people use to travel to work in a city )
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Several commuter trains were delayed because of the bad weather.
a flight/train/coach departure
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I'm afraid your flight departure has been delayed.
a night train/bus/flight
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I took the night train to Fort William.
a passenger train (= rather than a goods train )
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The driver of the passenger train was unable to stop in time.
a professional/trained counsellor
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Seek help from a professional counsellor if things go wrong.
a rail accident/a train accident
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It was the country's worst ever rail accident.
a railway/train/bus timetable
a teacher training college (= where you learn to be a teacher )
a train/bus/coach ticket
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I’ve lost my train ticket.
a training centre
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He was a new recruit at the police training centre.
a training course
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If you are offered the job, you will attend a two-week training course.
a training scheme
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The company runs an apprentice training scheme.
a training session
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Every training session starts with a series of exercises.
basic training
boat train
bus/train/air/cab fare
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Air fares have shot up by 20%.
by car/train/bus/taxi etc
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They travelled to Chicago by train.
car/train/plane wreck
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My father died in a car wreck.
circuit training
clinical medicine/experience/training etc (= medicine etc that deals directly with people, rather than with research or ideas )
come by car/train/bus etc
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Will you be coming by train?
endurance sports/training (= designed to test or improve your endurance )
fitness training
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The players have to do a lot of fitness training.
freight train
ghost train
go by bus/train/car etc
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It’ll be quicker to go by train.
gravy train
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Privatization is not always the gravy train that governments promise.
highly skilled/trained/educated
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She is a highly educated woman.
instruction/training/reference etc manual
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Consult the computer manual if you have a problem.
mail train
miss the train/bus etc
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I overslept and missed the train.
passengers board a plane/train formal (= get on it )
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The first three cars were reserved for passengers boarding in Queens.
professional training
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All the charity’s workers are volunteers, without professional training.
receive education/training
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16 to 18-year-olds receiving full-time education
running/jogging/training etc shoes
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Get yourself a good pair of running shoes if you want to take up running.
spring training
staff training
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The company has made a massive investment in staff training.
steam engine/train/hammer etc (= an engine etc that works by steam power )
stopping train
teacher training/education (= professional training to become a teacher )
technical training
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technical training
the morning train/flight (= that leaves in the morning )
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She took the morning flight back to London.
train set
train spotter
train station
train station/railway station British English
trained/qualified personnel
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The unit is staffed by trained personnel.
trained/qualified staff
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Recruitment of trained staff was a continuing problem.
training college
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a teacher training college
training facilities
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The company plans to set up in-house training facilities.
training wheel
training/study aids
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Receive free study aids when you enrol, including a copy of The IDM Marketing Guide worth £95.
travel by train/car/air etc
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Emily hated travelling by train.
undergo training
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Doctors have to undergo years of training.
wagon train
weight training
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He does weight training at the gym twice a week.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
express
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It still sounded like an express train in the confines of the small garage.
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And the brakes feel like they could stop an express train .
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The North Hey itself was still well over its banks, and flowing like an express train .
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What they did not realize was that the express train had a restaurant car and the slow train did not.
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An eagle diving to the hand from 500 feet whistling down like an express train is a sight not often forgotten.
long
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A few paces behind walked the bride on her father's arm, her long heavy train and the bridesmaids behind her.
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Peahens prefer long trains , he said, because of an innate aesthetic sense-which is no answer at all.
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The amount of people crammed into offices out here, they should have built longer trains .
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I passed long wagon trains filled with wounded and dying soldiers, without even a blanket to shield them....
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Eventually Durham was reached and the long train drew into the ancient city.
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The cigarette ban will be most troublesome for smokers on long train journeys.
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Lily held the long heel-length train of her gown carefully out to the side.
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It was a long train ride up to our prep school in Boston, and there were guys on that train.
special
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One possibility: Clinton may campaign in Great Lakes battle ground states from a special presidential train .
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For the conveyance of wounded men in ambulance trains , refugees, and prisoners of war, 13,318 special trains were provided.
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If the presidential yacht was under-used, the special train built for the couple was never put into service.
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Indeed, as regular third-class traffic increased, the excursion traffic by special train became less important.
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As usual, special trains will be running from Charing Cross, waterloo East and London bridge.
■ NOUN
commuter
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The cab control car of a commuter train being pushed from the rear collided head-on with an Amtrak diesel locomotive.
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Today the manager of personnel makes a point of sitting next to his old friend on the daily commuter train .
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Priority projects are double-decker commuter trains and more money for the West Coast line.
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Caltrain runs commuter trains to both destinations and to other Silicon Valley cities, culminating in San Francisco.
driver
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A spokesman said the freight train driver spotted the danger but could not prevent the collision.
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In the extreme case of train drivers , there is no transfer into the hierarchy above the entry grade.
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They were joined by underground train drivers in the capital.
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So you're both going to be firemen, not train drivers ?
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First, a strike by even a proportion of core workers such as train drivers or signalmen can paralyse the network.
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So ticket collectors would strike while train drivers worked normally.
fare
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Finally run out of money and had to borrow train fare from Chamonix to Geneva.
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Tlere was also that uncertainty about the train fare .
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He reported back faithfully to Theo, who had provided his train fare .
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Round-trip train fare was about $ 3. 50, admission $ 7. 50.
freight
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A spokesman said the freight train driver spotted the danger but could not prevent the collision.
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Investigators were photographing the wreckage from all angles, and searching for a data recorder that had been aboard the freight train .
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Another woman corrected him, saying she heard the coat was found a bit farther down the freight train track.
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A Manhattan team, meanwhile, sent its bikes ahead and hopped a freight train west.
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Jack was able to stop the freight train without accident.
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The Subway Series lumbers along like a freight train overloaded with nitroglycerine on a mountain pass.
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What is the length of the longest ever recorded freight train ?
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Thirty-five to 40 freight trains pass through there daily.
gravy
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Six cents an hour, in Salvador, is considered the gravy train .
journey
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We never missed them when I was young and we all loved our train journeys .
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The cigarette ban will be most troublesome for smokers on long train journeys .
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At first, I wanted to take train journeys across the continents.
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Only an overnight train journey , however, divides it from tropical areas and their exotic products.
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And, of course, there's always the train journey home to look forward to.
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Smoking on a train journey , looking out at the countryside whizzing by.
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The train journey between Leeds and Sheffield shows one this nineteenth-century landscape to perfection.
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Arriving, and the train journey , and the march ... what if I dream every day of it?
night
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Taxi then from Prado and night train up to Léon.
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On receiving it, Norman returned directly to London and caught a night train to Edinburgh.
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I took the night train for Fort William, which stops at Crianlarich at seven in the morning.
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My celebration consisted of a few beers with my caddie friends at Edinburgh station and on the night train .
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Both dealers took the night train to a Northern province, the home town of one of them.
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Keeble and I chatted about this before settling down in our sleepers on the night train from Moscow to Kiev.
passenger
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The engine on the passenger train is the same one that was involved in the Hatfield train disaster.
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Amtrak also runs its passenger trains on this stretch.
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And, according to the black-haired man, there would be more to come ... He watched the approaching passenger train from Interlaken.
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No passenger train ever stops here.
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The engine of the passenger train and six wagons in the coal train were considerably damaged.
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Since nearly all passenger trains included Pullmans, a nationwide strike resulted.
ride
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This train ride felt like that - except that the station wouldn't have saved him from the nightmare.
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Lethamhill is in the town of Helensburgh, a half-hour train ride from Glasgow.
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A long train ride to an owl called Maggie.
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Seclusion is at hand a short train ride from Zurich, whose airport handles sleek business jets in nearly any weather.
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The 75-ton monster was spotted by staff at Three Bridges station, a short train ride from busy Gatwick Airport.
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I mean, a chump who spends an entire three-hour train ride returning voice mail?
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Vernazza is nearest - a short train ride or lovely hour-and-a-half walk away - appearing like an unexpected vision as you approach.
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It is smaller and more refined than its sister city, a 21-hour train ride to the south.
service
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Geographical organisations would still operate the railway, but their role was to supply train services to the business sectors.
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Amtrak suspended train service between Portland and Seattle until crews could inspect the tracks.
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Millfield-educated Hewitt already has his heart set on working for Virgin tycoon Richard Branson's planned privatised train service .
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Amtrak suspended train service between Portland and Seattle until tracks could be inspected, a spokesman said.
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In May 1991 a new high-speed train service on the Hamburg-Munich route was introduced.
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The event attracted a record number of passengers who enjoyed an intensive steam train service and additional vintage train service.
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It has been argued that it would make sense for whoever runs the train services to also take responsibility for the track.
set
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Once he nicked my entire Corgi transporter filled with cars and a train set .
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It was just a train set , indefinably old-fashioned.
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I used the money to buy an electric train set , but frustratingly enough, it didn't work very well.
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The display in the shop window was an extravagant scenario designed to showcase a monster train set .
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There was a big Hornby train set , working by battery, with a set of rails to match, for Jerry.
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They re-entered general service in 1947, but not as train sets .
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The toylike character of this electric train set is emphasised by lack of people.
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Another early memory was getting my first train set .
station
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They will also meet you at the train stations .
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Doyle remembers Gabby, an 8-year-old he first met eating discarded ice cream cones in the train station .
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Hugh's Glasgow was a paradise of train stations and carpet factories.
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I know it's a train station and that, but I du n no how to get home from here.
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She arrived at the train station , with trunk, on August 6.
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I had reached their house late at night from the train station , absolutely penniless.
steam
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Up to 20 caravans have parked close to the town's historic cathedral, and opposite the leisure centre and steam train station.
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Read in studio Railway enthusiasts are queueing up for a nostalgic trip on a steam train .
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Some find this special reproduction steam train moving and nostalgic.
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Twenty-five feet down, Foo rolled over and saw an upside-down steam train puff by above him.
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She was aware that her heart was clattering inside her, racketing against her ribs like a demented steam train .
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At Ambleside you can take a steam train through the lake and river scenery of the Leven valley.
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The admission price includes rides on the steam trains and the other attractions.
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On Steamdays visitors can enjoy rides in the 1930s steam trains and see the activities of a steam locomotive depot.
ticket
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Only at level 14 and above can you buy a soft sleeper train ticket .
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He turned a small cardboard rectangle over and over between his fingers: the train ticket .
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The price of train tickets can vary from the reasonable to the ridiculous.
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He purchased a train ticket with the money he had left.
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It was just costing them a lot of money in phone calls and train tickets to London.
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Getting there is relatively easy - Nick's train ticket cost £140 and he travelled direct from London on the Warsaw Express.
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There is panic buying of food, air tickets , train tickets, everything.
wagon
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He was left behind by the rest of the wagon train because his vehicle was so cumbersome.
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There must be people in these old graveyards who came out on wagon trains .
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She attacked a wagon train two years ago.
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As sundown approached, scores of settlers and a wagon train of police vans moved down the hill as Maj.
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The noises got nearer and shapes became clearer - horses pulling a long wagon train .
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I passed long wagon trains filled with wounded and dying soldiers, without even a blanket to shield them....
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Everybody circled up like wagon trains around the bleach vats and wood room and even the goddamn lunch table.
wreck
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If there were no blizzard to shut down Washington, there would still be the budget train wreck .
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And if the budget train wreck ended, there would still be -- political correctness.
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The show-biz story of the decade has spawned the cinematic train wreck of 1996.
■ VERB
board
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No record of the former Prime Minister would be complete without boarding the train between Birmingham to Wolverhampton.
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He boarded the train for the overnight journey and entered a first-class compartment with his first-class ticket.
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When they boarded the train back to London all were still emotionally exhausted: throughout the long journey little was said.
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It was dark when he boarded the train .
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In Dresden, witnesses reported violent clashes between police and would-be emigrants desperate to board trains to the West.
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They must be somewhere in the Bronx: he boarded the train only half an hour ago.
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Had the boys boarded a train to Carlisle and caused damage there, this might have been regarded as too remote.
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Q: All over the world, analysts are saying that you finally have boarded the Oslo peace train .
catch
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Chris and Patrick had caught a train to London and taken a taxi straight to Richie's flat.
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They returned to their hotel, packed their bags, and left for Penn Station to catch a train for Washington.
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I could still catch the early train if I left immediately.
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Then I closed off my Albany life with four phone calls and caught the ten thirty train to New York.
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Peter arranged a taxi to Victoria for me to catch a train to Gatwick and the last flight to Edinburgh.
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After the debate, they dined on hamburgers and talked sports at a local joint before catching a train back to Washington.
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After seeing the competitors set off, there was a dash to Forster Square Station to catch the train to Esholt.
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Panicky civilians raced to the railway station to catch any train heading south.
change
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We parted at Paddington, and assured them that they would have to change trains at Oxford.
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Although the line will remain open, people will have to change trains at Thornaby.
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There is an unutterable sadness around Medina del Campo, where I had to change trains for Salamanca.
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At midnight, twenty-four hours after leaving Calais, she finally arrived in Milan where she had to change trains .
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It shows passengers where they need to change trains .
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In Trieste we changed trains and took the express to Venice.
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But it does tell you where you have to change trains , the time of the connections and the overall travelling time.
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But not to change trains , only cars.
get
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We've only just got off the train , haven't had time for a cup of tea or anything.
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Recently, I returned to Walton junction with my children to get the train to Ormskirk.
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A powerful urge told me to return to the station and get on the train back to Jamila's place.
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She said I would when I got on the train .
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Lenin got into the train without replying a word.
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They got two trains running every day.
jump
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Some guards moved the taxi back to the road and then they jumped on to the train again.
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I was a fisherman myself before I jumped that train and wound up here.
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Anyway, I'd already found a seat when he jumped on as the train was about to leave.
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I once read a case in the newspaper about a man who jumped in front of an Underground train .
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And says if he'd been given his own psychiatric nurse ... he would never have jumped off the train .
leave
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There is plenty of time to look around Stratford-upon-Avon or leave the train at Warwick to visit the historic castle.
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Mount Tarumae rose on the left as the train began to turn sharply inland, towards Sapporo on the Chitose Line.
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Some of the brighter ones left trains for several minutes, and were photographed.
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Amelie sat on her suitcase all day, not daring to leave in case the train came.
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Below these entrances were folding steps, in case it should be necessary to enter or leave the train from track level.
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He left alone before the train reached Carrick.
miss
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I had to go - I had a meeting in town and I didn't want to miss the train .
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They took a drive and missed the last train to Wareham.
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Back in the main street of Ballinasloe, I had to act fast, or I would miss my train .
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I missed the slower trains with the lounge cars and the rackety wheels.
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We talked until I missed the last train .
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You may miss the train unless you go at once.
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It might only save seconds, but seconds can make the difference between missing a train and getting to work.
move
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It would be like parachuting on to a moving train .
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For if the moving train had shrunk laterally, it would fit inside the stationary train, as in a tunnel.
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Hornby, founded in 1908, has now moved on from trains and cars to sell dolls and video games.
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With other mutilated veterans in Rumania, later, he had been thrown from a moving train .
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It is a little like throwing a ball out of a moving train .
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Why, very easily, if the moving train has shrunk in length.
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I could see the remains of those buildings from the moving train .
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Or alternatively, if time is passing at a slower rate on the moving train .
pull
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The loco was rostered to pull a brake van train between Bewdley and Kidderminster at 10.10, 11.35 and 13.05.
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The engine was in front, pulling the train , which Parr said prevented additional injuries.
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It will be one of two engines pulling trains on the line this summer.
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The terrain was so difficult that for part of the journey three locomotives were needed to pull one train .
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The noises got nearer and shapes became clearer - horses pulling a long wagon train .
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The child's amazement and delight at first seeing the trundling engine pulling a train behind it had been something to witness.
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The horses pulling the train came to a halt and Eline stumbled to her feet.
run
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Denied the ability to run and train , she felt useless.
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Amtrak also runs its passenger trains on this stretch.
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The narrator, returning to the box shortly afterwards, finds that the signalman has been run over by a train .
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Caltrain runs commuter trains to both destinations and to other Silicon Valley cities, culminating in San Francisco.
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The state government retains the right to license other operators to run passenger and freight trains over the country rail network.
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But it was like being run over by a train .
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Some one saw me running up that right-hand staircase, running for the train .
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It has been argued that it would make sense for whoever runs the train services to also take responsibility for the track.
stop
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The overhead track then stops , so the train runs on just the horizontal bottom supports.
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The man had tried to stop a train carrying arms that were to be sent to the contras.
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I expect she was so excited that she didn't stop to look up trains .
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And the brakes feel like they could stop an express train .
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We needed always to stop where the trains were serviced for water, trash and fuel.
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Two London gangs had joined forces to stop the train at Sear's Crossing in Buckinghamshire by rigging the signals.
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Jack was able to stop the freight train without accident.
take
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When Eva was three years old she was taken by train to the city.
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I had a day off so I took the train down and did my part.
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He reads a newspaper to him every day, takes him on trains and buses and to the shops.
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The next day they took the train to Salzburg.
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Day 5 Sat Aswan-Cairo Another free day before taking the overnight train to Cairo.
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She took the train to Wellesley, in nervousness dropping her money on the platform.
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I took the night train for Fort William, which stops at Crianlarich at seven in the morning.
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The fastest way from there to the Embankment was to take an Underground train from Euston.
travel
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They had to travel by train all over the country.
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Alvin 1 214 was able to fly on alone to book rooms for the dancers, who would travel by train .
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Together they travelled north by train .
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To get there one has to travel four hours by train from Calcutta to the town of Asansol, 150 miles away.
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Certainly this man could afford to travel by train .
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That's why I don't travel on the train very often.
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He then travelled by train to London to visit Bond Street in general and a famed jeweller in particular.
wait
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Charlotte walked slowly on to the platform and waited for her train to pull in.
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The platform is brightly lit and filled with people waiting for the train to pull in.
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The man was standing by his left shoulder, waiting for the train to stop.
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At about 4: 00 p. m. about 600 people were waiting around for their trains .
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But he could not sit patiently and wait for the next train , in an hour's time.
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There were a couple of men standing there by the door, waiting for the train to pull in and stop.
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I spect he's waiting for a train .
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It'd be nice to be waiting here for a train and then getting on it and going somewhere nice.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
bird/train etc spotter
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Here is the story of one of them, Derek, the most unsuccessful train spotter in the world.
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I suppose we're all train spotters at heart.
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In Leicester a group of men got up like train spotters were very excited to see our coach.
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It's a bonus for the late train spotter .
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What a field day the train spotters had!
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Why are so many train spotters called Derek?
catch a train/plane/bus
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I should be able to catch the 12:05 train.
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Kevin catches the bus home on Mondays and Wednesdays.
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After the debate, they dined on hamburgers and talked sports at a local joint before catching a train back to Washington.
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Chris and Patrick had caught a train to London and taken a taxi straight to Richie's flat.
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He caught a plane last night.
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I could catch a bus back into town.
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Maybe she had caught a train to New Rochelle.
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Peter arranged a taxi to Victoria for me to catch a train to Gatwick and the last flight to Edinburgh.
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The second time I caught a bus to the coast.
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They returned to their hotel, packed their bags, and left for Penn Station to catch a train for Washington.
express train/coach/bus
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And the brakes feel like they could stop an express train.
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He took the ball like an express train and burst through the midfield defence.
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It still sounded like an express train in the confines of the small garage.
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It was perfect for low-fare express coach services.
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The subway trip seemed endless, even on the express train.
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Transfer to the Kobe line and catch the 8: 20 express train.
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Visitors have to take a local train to visit Delft; the express trains speed by.
formal education/training/qualifications
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But today students need more formal education to learn the academic skills that increasingly are required on the job.
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Entry-level budget analysts may receive some formal training when they begin their jobs.
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Mekki had little formal education, a bullying manner and a longshoreman's fondness for obscenity.
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Not only did the managers gain skills and knowledge from formal training, but they also augmented their networks of relationships.
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The ritualistic quality of the formal training programs was not lost on the neW managers.
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Then, of course, the whole process of formal education is a crucial socialising agency.
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We believe that formal training in the use of the laryngeal mask would be beneficial to any physician dealing with such cases.
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Yet there is undoubtedly a very positive value placed on formal education by black families.
hop a plane/bus/train etc
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Elated, Daley and Sis hopped a plane for a vacation in the Florida Keys.
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He would just hop trains and stuff.
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Receiving assurances that there was no ethnic dimension to the role he had been offered, Hoch hopped a plane headed west.
in-service training/courses etc
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A national in-service training programme will ensure that all teachers are fully qualified in the subject they are teaching.
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Both should receive official sanction and both require in-service training opportunities to acquire the necessary skills.
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If trainees are attending a regular in-service training course, individual viewing could be built into the syllabus.
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In some cases school finances are being pooled to fund in-service training, large expensive resources and joint activities for the children.
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Organizers of in-service training courses will also find them useful.
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Some apply for every in-service training course that is going.
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The potential contributions of the academic and in-service courses must be left for another occasion.
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The second one, which is two hours long, is designed for teachers, college lecturers and in-service training.
jump a train
model aircraft/train/car etc
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A model car doesn't have to contain all the elements of an internal combustion engine in order to work as a toy!
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Andrew has been prompted to make a model car like his dad's.
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Corgi sent a full range of their model cars, including Rolls Royces and Porsches.
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Genghis, assembled out of model car parts, weighed only 3. 6 pounds.
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I built model cars when I was younger.
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Loafers that looked more like model cars.
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Some people like model trains or football.
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The sum was raised at a model aircraft flying display that was all but washed out through appalling weather.
put sb on a train/plane etc
the gravy train
through train
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By 1993, he hopes to have moved 250 public housing developments through training for tenant management.
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Employee Development Programs help employees develop their talents and capacities through training sessions, workshops, and the like.
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He said the new 16.52 Middlesbrough to Darlington service was in fact a through train to Bishop Auckland.
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Officials are drafting the strategy, which aims to raise teaching standards through training and staff support.
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The foundry supplied some 42 spans of varying sizes which enabled the natives to travel from Benares to Calcutta by through train.
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The regulation will be through training and a points system, based on experience gained in mediation.
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To reprise Wallace Stevens, managers wear square hats and learn through training.
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We finished the trip on a through train, drinking white wine and eating crisps, looking at the Cambrian line scenery.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a wagon train
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As the mail train thundered past and disappeared into the distance he heard the familiar sound of footsteps.
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But he made it, and got to the station just before the train did.
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Caltrain runs commuter trains to both destinations and to other Silicon Valley cities, culminating in San Francisco.
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Comment on the dollar had been sombre for much of the year in the train of developments the previous autumn.
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We parted at Paddington, and assured them that they would have to change trains at Oxford.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
highly
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In practice, spoken language interpreters are highly educated and highly trained .
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Highly trained and experienced financial managers head each financial department.
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Today it is identically equipped to the Regular Army and is highly trained in at least one speciality.
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They were tough, highly trained volunteers in the Airborne, but some looked very young to me.
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Swordsmen are amongst the most highly trained and proficient of the provincial regiments.
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It was, by and large, the domain of highly trained white men.
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The Reiksguard forms an elite core of highly trained , expensively-equipped troops who are loyal to the Emperor in person.
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With the touch of a button, these highly trained technicians can change the picture being transmitted.
■ NOUN
management
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But you get the general lay of the land from management training .
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Senior staff and middle managers having an explicit management role and being trained and developed to do it. 3.
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The twenty-year relationship between Anne and Laura started when they found themselves on the same management training course.
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He warned management during training camp that the team would be in deep trouble if either he or Johnson suffered injuries.
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The Kenilworth-Parkside Resident Management Corporation hired and trained residents to manage the property and do the maintenance.
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Of course, we also provide practical project management training from the shop floor up.
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The advanced training program focused on estate planning and liability management .
worker
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I usually don't mention the fact that I once trained as a social worker .
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Indiana has reserved the bulk of its economic-development spending for training workers .
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Ask about the qualifications and training of workers , and whether the agency insures against misconduct.
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This makes them much harder to replace than easily trained shop-floor workers or line managers.
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Dively said he will be reimbursed the $ 2, 400 it will cost to train each worker in his 13-week program.
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Their growing team of newly trained women health workers were from the village peasant classes, however.
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The 1-page standard would require employers to provide special training to injured workers and others handling the same duties.
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receive
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Many doctors feel that medical students still do not receive enough training in communication skills.
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Entry-level budget analysts may receive some formal training when they begin their jobs.
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Some are instructors, who do not receive training , others are on the graduate teaching programme.
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He seemed to have received special training somewhere that allowed him to live with such possibilities without a trace of fear.
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At Chalmers University some 600 undergraduates and 50 postgraduates now receive hands-on training in online information retrieval every year.
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The schools will receive additional teacher training and textbook money, as well as closer monitoring.
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However, staff in residential and nursing homes generally receive little training in caring for the elderly.
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They had received little training on the job, and had not been plainly told that plutonium caused cancer.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
bird-spotting/train-spotting etc
bird/train etc spotter
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Here is the story of one of them, Derek, the most unsuccessful train spotter in the world.
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I suppose we're all train spotters at heart.
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In Leicester a group of men got up like train spotters were very excited to see our coach.
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It's a bonus for the late train spotter .
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What a field day the train spotters had!
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Why are so many train spotters called Derek?
express train/coach/bus
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And the brakes feel like they could stop an express train.
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He took the ball like an express train and burst through the midfield defence.
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It still sounded like an express train in the confines of the small garage.
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It was perfect for low-fare express coach services.
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The subway trip seemed endless, even on the express train.
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Transfer to the Kobe line and catch the 8: 20 express train.
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Visitors have to take a local train to visit Delft; the express trains speed by.
formal education/training/qualifications
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But today students need more formal education to learn the academic skills that increasingly are required on the job.
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Entry-level budget analysts may receive some formal training when they begin their jobs.
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Mekki had little formal education, a bullying manner and a longshoreman's fondness for obscenity.
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Not only did the managers gain skills and knowledge from formal training, but they also augmented their networks of relationships.
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The ritualistic quality of the formal training programs was not lost on the neW managers.
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Then, of course, the whole process of formal education is a crucial socialising agency.
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We believe that formal training in the use of the laryngeal mask would be beneficial to any physician dealing with such cases.
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Yet there is undoubtedly a very positive value placed on formal education by black families.
in-service training/courses etc
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A national in-service training programme will ensure that all teachers are fully qualified in the subject they are teaching.
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Both should receive official sanction and both require in-service training opportunities to acquire the necessary skills.
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If trainees are attending a regular in-service training course, individual viewing could be built into the syllabus.
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In some cases school finances are being pooled to fund in-service training, large expensive resources and joint activities for the children.
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Organizers of in-service training courses will also find them useful.
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Some apply for every in-service training course that is going.
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The potential contributions of the academic and in-service courses must be left for another occasion.
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The second one, which is two hours long, is designed for teachers, college lecturers and in-service training.
model aircraft/train/car etc
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A model car doesn't have to contain all the elements of an internal combustion engine in order to work as a toy!
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Andrew has been prompted to make a model car like his dad's.
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Corgi sent a full range of their model cars, including Rolls Royces and Porsches.
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Genghis, assembled out of model car parts, weighed only 3. 6 pounds.
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I built model cars when I was younger.
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Loafers that looked more like model cars.
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Some people like model trains or football.
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The sum was raised at a model aircraft flying display that was all but washed out through appalling weather.
the gravy train
through train
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By 1993, he hopes to have moved 250 public housing developments through training for tenant management.
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Employee Development Programs help employees develop their talents and capacities through training sessions, workshops, and the like.
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He said the new 16.52 Middlesbrough to Darlington service was in fact a through train to Bishop Auckland.
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Officials are drafting the strategy, which aims to raise teaching standards through training and staff support.
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The foundry supplied some 42 spans of varying sizes which enabled the natives to travel from Benares to Calcutta by through train.
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The regulation will be through training and a points system, based on experience gained in mediation.
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To reprise Wallace Stevens, managers wear square hats and learn through training.
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We finished the trip on a through train, drinking white wine and eating crisps, looking at the Cambrian line scenery.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A lot of employers don't train their staff properly.
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All employees will be trained to use the new computer system.
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Chris trained at an airbase in Honduras.
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Hamilton trains and sells horses.
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Her husband trained to be an auto mechanic, but he can't find a job.
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I'm not as fit as I should be. I don't train enough.
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If you're really going to run in the marathon, you need to start training now.
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In the winter months, she trains in Montana.
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Julie is training to be a nurse.
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Melanie trained for a career in music, but switched to photography in her early thirties.
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She's been training for the marathon for six months.
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The dog was trained to detect illegal drugs.
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The staff must be trained to use the software correctly.
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The team is currently training in Hampshire.
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The troops had been training for an important role in the battle.
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Tyson is training for the big fight next week.
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We train people in skills such as typing and business administration.
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We train twice a week at the local gym.
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We want to encourage people who left school early to train for better jobs.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Mr Gorman recently trained to become a chiropractor.
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These teams will be trained in direction and how to participate in problem solving.