noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a commuter town/village (= that a lot of people leave each day to travel to work )
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It’s a commuter town about 40 miles from London.
a village community
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Outside the capital, most people live in village communities.
church/village hall (= used by people who live in a place )
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A coffee morning is to be held in the village hall.
global village
outlet village
the village pond
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They were sitting in the shade of a tree beside the village pond.
the whole school/country/village etc (= all the people in a school, country etc )
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The whole town came out for the parade.
village gossip BrE:
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She knew from village gossip how Harry had treated his first wife.
village green
village idiot
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
fishing
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In 1954, she took an exposed, simple cottage in the north eastern fishing village of Catterline.
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Settlement was concentrated in fishing villages on the tributaries of the Snake, Clearwater and Salmon Rivers.
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Both worry about the fishing villages whose livelihood has been commercial whaling.
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Two young lads from Hafnarfjödur, a small fishing village near Reykjavik, were going like loonies.
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Destination: the tiny fishing village of St Abbs on the Berwickshire coast, seven miles north from Berwick-upon-Tweed.
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I saw the small fishing villages where my father had found his men.
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It's also an unspoilt farming and sponge fishing village of great character.
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Yokohama had been a mere fishing village in 1853, and Kobe, too, owed its expansion to foreign trade.
global
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The rock and roll global village .
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We are not hammering together a cozy global village .
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We now live in a global village ... a simultaneous happening.
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We do have a global village , more and more all the time.
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The world was not the global village we are used to today.
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The dream of the unified global village has given way to the reality of global fragmentation and diversity.
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The global village of which we all speak carelessly is at most a global convenience store.
little
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It's a small, ordinary little village , its only claim to fame the castle, and the burial mounds.
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When I first discovered that little village , it was this isolated little world.
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Arthur and I went for long walks - and that little village was the best place in the world.
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Almost every hill is crowned with a picture-perfect little walled village .
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Mr Gordon finds a Musician Mr Gordon was the teacher at the little village school.
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In little villages it is often a white clapboard building with a hip roof and a bell tower.
nearby
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The bulk of his clients comprise severely disturbed psychotic patients from nearby villages and towns.
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The toll mounted Friday when three Christians were found slain in sugar cane fields in the nearby village of El Zuheir.
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Thousands of people carry firewood on their heads to Ranchi every day from nearby villages .
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Born in the nearby Mena village , Furjani is a tall man whose dark complexion conveys his sub-Saharan ancestry.
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The majority were families from the nearby villages but there were also numerous railway enthusiasts from further afield.
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I drove the women into the nearby village for provisions, which completely turned their heads.
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The influx of large numbers of construction workers had inevitably caused disruption in the nearby villages , especially the closest, Stogursey.
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Peasants in black pajamas and conic straw hats had flowed in from nearby villages to mingle with merchants and mandarins.
old
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Further down the island, little picturesque old villages nestle into the countryside.
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The main advantage of building this way is the houses fit into old villages so well.
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The old village school, which closed in 1968, is now a private house and schoolchildren go by bus to Howden.
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These engulfed some older villages , such as Gosforth, which are now smaller shopping centres within the conurbation.
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It is their village now, just as much as it was for the old village families.
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And for the youngsters, the Old Swan makes the old village hall seem like a hangover.
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I live in Glyn-Neath, West Glamorgan, an old pit village with huge unemployment.
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Garda Garda is a charming old village that is very easy on the eye.
picturesque
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Further down the island, little picturesque old villages nestle into the countryside.
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Craigendarroch is the perfect base for discovering the surrounding countryside with its bustling towns, and picturesque villages .
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The picturesque stone-walled villages and farms blend into the natural surroundings and add to their beauty.
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There is also a very pretty walk here, along the old railway line to another picturesque village , Little Melford.
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Goblin Ha'Hotel Charming inn situated in picturesque village at the foot of the Lammermuirs.
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Once the thriving port of Linlithgow, Blackness is a picturesque village with a heavily fortified castle.
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In those days it was a picturesque village a couple of miles from the pleasant and compact town.
pretty
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Now it is a pretty village , much frequented by tourists.
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This pretty little village of narrow lanes and attractive cottages is in fact a Royal Village.
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Cycling: Cycle hire is available in the town centre and many pretty villages are within easy reach.
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Alfriston is a very pretty village with a children's zoo.
remote
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Amelie pushed on through Dax, stopping overnight in remote villages and negotiating the various command posts nervously.
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The blast last week in remote Fanglin village , deep in the southern province of Jiangxi, was massive.
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Transports in and out carrying shipments of rice that were dropped into remote villages .
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Ancient tradition remains powerful, and stories of witches and snake charmers are still whispered high in the remote mountain villages .
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During my stay in a remote village in Kangwon Province, watching me shampoo my hair became a spectacle.
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From such humble beginnings in a remote Lincolnshire village he was, however, destined to make his impression on the world.
small
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The first very fascinating discovery a visitor to Alvingham will make is that this small village has two churches in one churchyard.
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Look, we are a small village of 300 inhabitants that lives off tourists visiting our lake.
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The water-power age produced hamlets, at the most small villages , gathered around a new mill.
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Downchanges and general enthusiastic driving through the small villages was especially appreciated, apparently.
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The small village centre is surrounded by arable farms.
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Valldemosa A small traditional style village which was the source of inspiration for some of Chopin's most romantic compositions.
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Life in a small village could be deadly dull, and Henry had been absolutely charming when he chose to be.
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I live in a small village in Suffolk called Wetheringsett.
tiny
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The tiny village near Wantage has been plagued with crime.
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It is their little tribe, their tiny village .
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Miri Ismailov's family in the tiny village of Tatoni are convinced that they know what it is.
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The plane was taking the family to the tiny village of Wainwright, 90 miles southwest of Barrow.
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Passing through a tiny village called Babylon, the buildings are shabby and unkempt.
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We stopped that night in a tiny village in the desert.
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She met Sebastian from the tiny village school and told him what had happened.
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The third tour takes you to Kobi, a tiny village in South Osetia.
whole
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Once they talked of it in the village shop, the whole village would know by nightfall.
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This whole village has gone to pots.
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Soon the whole village will know this.
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You stank the whole village out.
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Thousands died in the Romni region. Whole villages starved to death.
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These two greenfield sites were each equal in size to the whole village of 1967.
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The whole village was turned inward.
■ NOUN
church
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The village church , tucked away at the very end of a winding leafy lane, is dedicated to St Mary.
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On Sundays there was a morning service in the village church and an evening hymn-sing in the auditorium.
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When he had leisure he went bicycling to Lincolnshire village churches .
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The village church is gone, the orphanage is still standing, though one wing of it has been gutted by fire.
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Coberley Mill, formerly known as Cubberly, nestles deep in the valley, close to the village church .
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They are quietly married in the village church .
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Of great interest are the church bells, very fine for a small village church.
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The remarkable Black Virgin of Belloc has been transferred from her abandoned mountain sanctuary to the village church of Dorres.
community
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The second course would have been unusual and encouraging - and leadership in the village community would probably have fallen to him.
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The concept of work most certainly came into being in the Neolithic village community .
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Meanwhile paint from Porter will put the finishing touches to an entire village community in the United States.
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Usually, the plains were left to be run by native princes or village communities .
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The first of these is a fairly widespread concurrence about the demise of the traditional village community .
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At the same time the new tax system implied a fundamental change in the nature and purpose of the village community .
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Such is the price a silversmith's son may have had to pay to achieve respectability in a Victorian village community .
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The structure and ethos of the village community remained pivotal to the whole system.
green
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Members also agreed to ask Darlington Borough Council to plant some more bulbs on the village green .
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He walks beside me through the small woods between our subdivision and the Nearing village green .
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A memorial was unveiled on the village green on October 4 - the village sign already incorporates a Lancaster.
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A terrace of visually pleasing stone cottages facing the neat village green are dated 1846.
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Blooming time: More crocuses are to be planted on the village green next year.
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Turn left on Main Street, past village green .
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The development is mixed tenure including affordable housing, a village school, a village green and a community centre.
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From village green to inner-city street, Labour needs to be seen as a respected, radical, and creative presence.
hall
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Domino drive: A domino drive will be held at the village hall tomorrow.
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Later that afternoon we walked what seemed like endless miles to the village hall .
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We decided to go to a Hogmanay dance in the village hall , and they came along to watch.
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Further up the village is the old school, which is now used as the village hall .
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The village hall , built in 1912, is a busy and thriving place.
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The present Methodist chapel was built in 1902, the former chapel now being part of the village hall .
life
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This pattern has not been altered by recent changes in village life .
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However humble, it was an escape route for them from dead-end Shaanxi village life .
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Nevertheless, the vastly expanded social contacts removed a shield of isolation from village life .
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She began to think that perhaps village life was not so bad.
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It also puts little stress on those problem-solving skills that are vital to the development of village life .
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They described village life to each other in intricate detail.
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We found it oppressive, inconvenient and village life is horribly nosey.
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Like their forebears, they chose subjects to illustrate the many facets of village life .
school
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The old village school , which closed in 1968, is now a private house and schoolchildren go by bus to Howden.
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Opening their hearts to Jane, the brother finds her work in the village school and the sisters listen to her story.
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He was educated at the village school in Fridaythorpe.
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She attended only a teachers' institute, then taught in a village school .
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Or better still, there was the village school practically next door!
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Read in studio A village school is resorting to big business techniques to ensure its survival.
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Mr Gordon finds a Musician Mr Gordon was the teacher at the little village school .
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Over the last 30 years the Trust has helped build 26 village schools , two hospitals and 12 medical centres.
shop
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Once they talked of it in the village shop , the whole village would know by nightfall.
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DivaIi, the festival of lights, would soon be upon us and the village shops were stocked up with fireworks.
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Village information scheme for Exmoor Exmoor National Park has decided to set up information agencies in selected village shops .
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There was the pretty girl from the village shop wearing an emerald-green dress more suited to a wedding.
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Everyone was hungry, but there was no food to be had for it had floated out of the village shop and away.
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Now she had pulled up outside the village shop and was yelling to them to bring her out an ice-cream.
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The many village shops have closed and reopened as video or betting shops, or estate agents.
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Probably she went into the Fir Tree or the village shop to get change for those calls.
■ VERB
build
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We built roads and villages and brought rubber trees and planted them for mile after mile through your wild land.
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Now one might say: more fool them, how stupid to build their Alpine villages in the paths of potential avalanches.
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The new training school was built as a village with school and church and shop.
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In 1948 a group of volunteers from the village started to build a village hall.
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When a new junior school was built in a nearby village in the late 1970s, the building became redundant.
leave
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I left the village in 1963.
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By the time I left the village , I think everyone in it knew all about me.
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The bus will leave the village at 9.30am heading for Carlisle via Hexham.
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That is how we leave one village and head for another.
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As he left the village he passed the field where he had first seen Tess at the dance.
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The post-1950 returnees were joined by some who had never before left the villages .
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Shelley left the village , after sharing a jug of wine with the Freitas family, and promising to come again soon.
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To everyone's surprise, though, she had married at eighteen, and had left the village .
live
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There are a lot of old people living in this village and we don't want it here.
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Yumbu and Minko are a black boy and a black girl who live in this jungle village .
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Many are happy to live in the village of Preston - not Lancashire, but Yorkshire.
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In those four months he lived in 49 villages .
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I lived in the village myself and waited for my students to arrive.
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People walked and talked leisurely as if they were still living in a Confucian village .
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I would be living now in some village , supporting myself by giving lessons.
walk
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Stiffly, they walked out of the village into the surrounding darkness.
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I explained to Phagu that I must, now, walk to that village to ring for the jeep.
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It was raining that morning as Sir Maxwell Shaw walked down the village street, a black Labrador at his heels.
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I do not care much now about the way the women gape at me when I walk around in the village center.
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With such dignity as I could manage I began to walk back to the village .
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At twilight, he walks in the village called Tandalavi, population a few hundred.
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I was walking through a Wirral village and decided to have a soft drink in a pub to cool off.
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According to the state police report, witnesses said about 12 men walked into the village shortly after 7 p.m.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the skirts of a forest/hill/village etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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She left her village in the north of Thailand and went to live in Bangkok.
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There are some nice little pubs in the villages round here.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Even at this size it completely outclassed most Rutland villages, quite two-thirds of which had populations of fewer than 150.
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I saw these villages peeking out of the jungles and tangled hillsides all through the highlands.
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It didn't, and by the time she did reach the village it was fully dark - and pouring with rain.
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The village school was closed in 1948 and the children are taken by bus to other schools in the area.
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The village school, built in 1870, is now closed and used for the village hall.
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The death did not move the village .
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There was the pretty girl from the village shop wearing an emerald-green dress more suited to a wedding.