noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
getaway car/vehicle/van (= a car etc used by criminals to escape after a crime )
guard's van
moving van
removal van
white van man
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
blue
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He was lying under a pummelled blue van , with only his grease-streaked head and shoulders showing.
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The blue van , driven by Latowa, pulled up outside a tall, ramshackle house, long ago turned into bedsitters.
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Slowly, round the corner of the passageway that ran behind Belmodes, came a blue and white van .
new
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Brenda cycled along the lane towards Stowbridge that morning to meet Daddy in his new van .
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Two nuns lifted cartons of groceries into the back of their new Fiat van .
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Tommy purchases a new delivery van for $ 10, 000.
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Parked at the kerb was a smart new van in pale blue.
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The project needs to raise money for a new van .
old
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Looking at the road makes me notice that old white van .
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I yelled over the engine noise of the old Dodge van .
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An old van and a couple of clapped-out motor bikes, and they let them get away.
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He was saved by the noisy arrival of an old van .
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Their companion, in his 20s, had an old , noisy van with a smiling face logo on the spare tyre.
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It made a change from Georg and his old van .
red
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But here's fact one: Peter drives a red Ford Escort van and lives in Islington.
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The massacre happened shortly before 9am, when the workmen were getting out of their red van .
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As they reached the lay-by, the accused had pulled in alongside the red van and stopped.
small
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This company had decided to produce a 3/4 wheel car and a small van .
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A nervous voice barked at her to go to a small van parked outside her house.
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They are supplied with a demonstration kit of a washer and dryer plus a small van painted with the company logo.
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A smaller delivery van from a wholesaler was just moving into her unloading yard.
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Georgi Kirov packed the small Moskvich van carefully.
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Cars and small vans , with only disrepair in common, were head to tail, headlights burning, a few yards away.
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Teachers' protests were disregarded as 96 were herded into the small prison van .
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Next morning the car, which was a small black van , came for Ben.
white
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Slowly, round the corner of the passageway that ran behind Belmodes, came a blue and white van .
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Victims of some of the serial rapes told police the attacker drove a white or light-colored van .
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Neighbours had earlier heard arguing, and seen a man drive off at speed in a white van .
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Looking at the road makes me notice that old white van .
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The other was a white Transit van .
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The force of the blast blew the roof off the white taxi van and shattered the windscreens of passing vehicles.
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I think he broke something because a big white van took him away and he returned with plaster on his arm.
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She hurried towards the white van .
■ NOUN
bomb
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The van bomb detonated at 11.22 am blowing police and civilians off the street.
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Police had already thwarted attempts to bring two huge van bombs to Madrid, and to detonate a car bomb in Bilbao.
camper
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His wife, Josey, has suggested that he no longer drives their automatic Bedford fully equipped camper van .
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They had booked a Toyota camper van and told the hire company they intended spending the next three weeks touring New Zealand.
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My second disaster of the trip happened in the very minute of taking the camper van on to the road.
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We returned the camper van to the hire centre and had a conference to decide what next.
delivery
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Motor vehicles: The business owns a fleet of cars and delivery vans all of which were bought from new.
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Tommy purchases a new delivery van for $ 10, 000.
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They have even given up their company cars and now tout for business in the firm's delivery van .
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They initially bought 400 beds at £100 each and a delivery van for £6,000.
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A smaller delivery van from a wholesaler was just moving into her unloading yard.
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A large delivery van was almost blocking the narrow street, its high sides nearly shutting off the daylight from her windows.
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He disappears into the constant traffic of delivery vans , porters and shoppers.
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Soho at this hour was an area of delivery vans , and of pavements that were wet with hosing-down.
driver
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A van driver involved in the accident has been charged with causing death by careless driving.
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It's the second time van driver Martin Clarke has been convicted of drink-driving.
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The family, shaken but unhurt, were freed by one of the van drivers .
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In addition, we would require a van driver .
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Mr Manwaring would have been no match for the fit 25-year-old van driver , who boxed and played badminton, said prosecution.
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At that moment, a van driver was moving into Mary's old parking space.
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Jim Eggleton, a retired van driver , was well known and liked in the hamlet of Russell's Water.
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Thirteen others were injured, including the van driver .
getaway
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They were on the dashboard of his getaway van , which he crashed after the £2,000 raid in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex.
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The getaway van was later found abandoned along with the stolen scrap metal.
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Security guard Ron Letts was crushed by a getaway van when he surprised a gang stealing scrap metal.
removal
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Jimmy was so elated that when the removal van arrived he hadn't even parcelled up his comics.
transit
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The other was a white Transit van .
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The party arrived at Gatwick in a grey transit van instead of chauffeur-driven cars and quietly skipped customs regulations.
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Oh no, it's a Transit van story!
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I handed over a Ford transit van and its human contents to the Sussex constabulary.
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The driver of a Ford Transit van , though he has priority, hangs back respectfully to let Vic filter left.
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As I watched, a Transit van reversed into Fastfit's loading area.
■ VERB
drive
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Dodman was driving a van found to be loaded with the stolen property.
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Normally, Lonergan drives a school van to and from games.
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He could drive the van and upholster a settee.
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He was driving his van , delivering copies of First Rebel.
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I spect they use it for driving their vans through.
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She had to continue driving the van all day, and again the following morning.
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They're still at the stage where they have to drive the van down from Manchester themselves.
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He'd spotted two men driving away from a securicor van parked outside Bookers cash and carry centre in cheltenham.
load
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The badgers are loaded into vans for the 4 hour drive to Yorkshire.
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Why are you loading this van when some one lives here?
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The assistant returned to see the respondent carrying the goods towards the main exit and loading them into a van .
move
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Behind him Charley was in the middle of the road, also beginning to move towards the van .
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Enormous as the moving van seemed, the new house was more enormous still, a split-level, with an attached garage.
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Traffic started moving again when the van was pronounced safe.
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One could gather the entire written output of the human race and load it into a single moving van .
park
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I parked the van alongside the bus stop, and Carol swayed to her feet thinking I was a bus.
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I parked my van and took a $ 1 5-a-week room in the Kalispell Hotel.
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It was hardly wider than a car and somebody had parked a van half way along.
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Stephen parked the van and delivered the screen.
stop
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He stopped on seeing the van across the road and then Brenda.
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Rafael stops the van at the north end of Avenue 9 de Julio.
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All the same, as soon as he was out of the woods he stopped the van .
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Grimwood stopped by the van door, extracted keys, opened the door and helped Steve inside.
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The constable was wounded after stopping a high-sided van in Stoke Newington, north London.
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Police nationwide will be setting up roadblocks to stop the killers transporting van loads of explosives at will.
use
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We used vans , vans marked with the Red Cross; and machine-guns; and dynamite.
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The prosecution had claimed police kept watch for Powney after receiving a report he was regularly using the van .
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It gives them an excuse to use the riot vans - and it beats booking drivers for speeding.
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Dod had got me the job and we were using his van , so everything was okay by me.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a moving van
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A hosepipe was attached to the exhaust pipe leading into the interior of the van and the engine was still running.
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Bernard reversed straight out of the new garage into the road and hit a passing van .
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Brave Sam King saw Scott Long, also six, run down by a van .
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Police found at least a dozen spent shell casings around the van .
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We washed three vans, one mini and 28 cars and we all got soaking wet.
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You will certainly need to make arrangements for the siting of the outside broadcast van and the laying of cables.