I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a brief visit
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The President flew to Argentina for a brief visit.
a surprise visit
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Environmental health inspectors made a surprise visit to the restaurant.
an inspection visit
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To date no inspection visit has been made.
an official visit/engagement etc (= one that relates to an important job or position )
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The Prime Minister was on an official visit to China.
fleeting visit
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Carol was paying a fleeting visit to Paris.
go to/visit the library
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I need to go to the library to return some books.
return visit
the visiting team (= the team who have travelled to their opponents’ sports field )
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The visiting team failed to score.
tourists visit a place
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About six million tourists visit the country each year.
visit a website
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You can visit the university’s website to get more information.
visit/go to a gallery
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The children visited the gallery on a school trip.
visiting card
visiting hours
visiting professor
worth a trip/visit etc
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The local museum is worth a visit.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
area
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For those without a car, there are daily coach tours to enable them to visit the surrounding areas .
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In the seven days since the Grand Forks mayoral election was held, I've visited five area communities.
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It was an unpleasant shock to discover Bentley Drummle there, but I could imagine his reason for visiting the area .
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Waverley the last sea-going paddle-steamer visits the area during the summer months.
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In what ways might each of these proposed developments reduce the pleasures of people who live in or visit the area ?
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The hon. Gentleman invited me to visit the area .
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The president may visit the hardest-hit areas .
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What on map B, page 93, suggests that tourists visit that area ?
city
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He and his three-piece combo will helm the nine-week tour, visiting 41 cities .
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We visited the ancient city of Petra and rode camels.
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Guests visit the city of Arequipa with the serene monastery of Santa Catalina.
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Another example of a Markov chain is the movement pattern of a business executive who visits four cities each week.
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Some 25 million tourists visited the city , 1 percent more than in 1994.
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Finally, they visited the city attorney.
country
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While Eva was at Usher, General Coutts visited the country .
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She had been visiting a country house to identify fabrics and advise on conservation.
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She visited fourteen countries , going to places which often no one else would visit.
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If Minton, however, visited Lehmann at his country cottage for Sunday lunch, he did so in Ricky's company.
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They discovered that you don't need to book into the Sheraton Hotel to visit a country .
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Since December 1989 President Havel as head of state had visited 23 countries and had officially received 140 foreign guests.
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Each operating region is visited once every three months and in between, he visits other countries to look at specific projects.
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After visiting 53 countries Denis was just one short.
doctor
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David decided not to visit the firm's doctor .
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We knew nothing of what had become of her since the June morning she and Dad had left to visit the doctor .
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The paper also advocated increased charges for the health service and suggested further savings, like charging patients to visit the doctor .
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Make a list of all the drugs and take it each time you visit a doctor or pharmacist.
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Since the underlying causes remained, the women visited their doctors with increasing frequency.
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Meanwhile, Agnes begins to rethink her decision while visiting the handsome doctor in his splendid Venetian mansion.
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Even before the blazer, I had very reluctantly decided that the time had come to visit my doctor .
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It reopened after students and instructors visited a doctor , and the building was disinfected.
family
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She would not visit her own family , except as a formality, and then as briefly as decency permitted.
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The postcards were usually of places we had visited as a family on those grueling summer vacations long ago.
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Later on, I ventured to express the hope that one day he would perhaps visit my family in Merstham.
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Ultimately, he hoped to visit family in Chicago, Atlanta and Alabama.
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A servant told her that Gilbey had visited the family estate two weeks earlier - with Lisa on his arm.
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She has been allowed out now to visit her family because she has just married off her only daughter.
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She's been visiting the Compton family who have been without their car for the last two months.
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Most often, entertainment is visiting family , attending their children's functions, camping, hiking and church.
friend
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Her friends came to visit in garish canoes, landed and partied and paddled home in the purple sunrise.
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When my friend Leshe and I visited the cave the guide showed us a large stone disc by an open flat area.
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Stephen Hart has a friend visiting him.
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Her parents sat up late to hear him, though when her New York friends visited they went early to bed.
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Life drifted aimlessly, until a friend came visiting with her Labrador Retriever.
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When a musician friend came to visit , I encouraged the boys to put on a concert for her.
home
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Alderley Edge side Icicals scored 186-6 when they visited Burnage, the home side managed 163-9 in reply.
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He had visited Ward at his home to inform him about the changes at Stark and Evans, and to reassure him.
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During my stay I visited schools, homes and families.
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They had met the teachers there last week when they visited the home of Ruben Dario.
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Sometimes the officer in charge is able to visit the client at home or in hospital.
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Miss Earhart had visited my home and while there, we decided to take a little jaunt.
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Only the minimum number of officers necessary will visit homes and parents will always be told what they are doing and why.
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How often did Fred Taylor visit the homes of friends from the shop or otherwise see them outside work hours?
hospital
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They hadn't been to visit Baby in hospital either.
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Next day before sunup she rose to visit the hospital .
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Many new school volunteers were apprehensive about visiting the hospital , anxieties fed by their fear of the unknown.
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He got them free toys and signed photographs of hockey stars; he found time to visit them in the hospital .
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Acheson visited Vandenberg in hospital on 21 January and the senator emphasised his support for Acheson's policy.
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Afterward, he visited the hospital , dropped by the Grill for breakfast, and headed to the office, walking.
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Celia and Danny visited the hospital infrequently.
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He said he did not know how long Tutu would visit the hospital .
house
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How unsettled and agitated he had been when they last had visited the Springall house .
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Just visit the White House , as you said you would, and heal those people.
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Now that Sarah was back at work Anne was not visiting the Redmond house as frequently, and she missed her visits there.
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However, he promised to visit White House during the next full moon.
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I had only visited the house - now a museum - once before.
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They later visited the house at least three times, neighbors and others say, but allowed the children to remain.
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Co., and visit owners of private houses , castles and gardens.
island
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This type of person continued to visit the island until the 1960s and the advent of air travel for all.
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Wildlife enthusiasts may prefer to visit the nature reserve islands of Oxney and Thanet.
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In 1695, he toured both the Inner and the Outer Hebrides, visiting many of the islands personally.
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For real life, visit Moila, the island of the ivory tower.
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We had come to Phang Nga to visit the limestone islands that rear in their hundreds from the bay.
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Le Monde of Aug. 21 reported that the Prime Minister was to visit the island shortly.
minister
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I understand that the Minister is planning to visit Raleigh Industries within the next 10 days.
museum
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We recently visited the Bomber Command museum at Hendon in north London, which was interesting from a nostalgic point of view.
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Want to visit the museum without leaving your home or office?
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After buying our souvenirs we had lunch and visited the Bethnal Green Museum of Childhood.
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Instead, I tried to visit as many other museums as I could in just a few hours.
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Next time you visit Fenland Aviation Museum , make a point of looking at the photograph albums pertaining to the Merlin's strip-down.
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Tourists will visit scores of new museums and monuments in neighborhoods now plagued by crime and decay.
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Glasgow is an excellent town for shopping, or perhaps you would care to visit the museums , including the Burrell Collection.
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As for public buildings, I still like visiting the Getty Museum .
official
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A Health and Safety Executive official visited the school later.
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State officials said the visiting police helped state agents detain 12 people and recuperate 12 stolen cars.
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On the eve of the Wallabies' departure, St George officials visited the Wallabies' hotel to seek his signature.
place
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They travelled by ferry, and among the places that they visited were Paris, Lille and Bruges.
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In many of the places that I visited , universal primary education is not yet established.
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And those worlds are wonderful places to visit , as millions of readers have learned.
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Closer to the Alba base at Dunstaffnage, however, there are still scores of places to visit .
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It's the sort of place priests visit all the time to hear the confessions.
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Your local computer supplier may be the first place to visit .
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Did anyone tell you that galleries were interesting places to visit , or even take you there?
school
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From the age of four my granda Hugh would visit the socialist Sunday school .
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The mobile museum visits schools , retirement homes, shopping centers and other venues.
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No inspector had visited the school for years.
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Brocklehurst visits the school to lecture the students on self-denial and the horrors of the lusts of the flesh.
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In the following week the students visit their school practice school.
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She loved visiting schools , talking with teachers, and helping the kids learn.
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During my stay I visited schools , homes and families.
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Today if you visit the school you notice only one difference.
site
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Near Lake Como there is even an annual cycle race that visits the sites mentioned in the book.
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The guide lectures on the history and culture of the city, and guests visit the most famous sites .
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Whilst the ride itself was uneventful, the reception we received as we visited each of the sites in turn was fantastic.
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What a natural extension it would be to take Brady to visit historical sites related to those dolls and their historical eras!
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As part of his job he is required to visit building sites .
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They can track how often you visit their site and what features you like best.
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They are visiting 6 sites , including Bishop's Castle, on their itinerary.
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Academy teachers visit the work sites once a week.
state
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Ready for action A big question mark hangs over the wisdom of visiting any Arab state at present, writes Mike Harper.
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Equally determined, Clinton has visited the state 23 times since being elected president.
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He lingers over that and I wait for him to ask why I was visiting a Communist state .
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In the first 28 days of September, Clinton spent 18 days on the campaign trail visiting 21 states .
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So far this year, he has visited at least 15 states .
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Over the same four-week period, Dole spent 21 days on the campaign trail visiting 20 states .
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Davis visited Kansas State last weekend and is expected to transfer.
■ VERB
allow
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The girls were allowed to visit him in the clinic.
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The mosque owns 9, 000 surrounding acres, including Plaza Blanca, which it allows the public to visit .
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The abbe had allowed me to visit friends.
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She has been allowed out now to visit her family because she has just married off her only daughter.
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I wasn't allowed to visit him at Croisset.
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That allows the recipient to visit the site by clicking on the icon instead of typing a lengthy address.
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Only archaeologists and scholars are allowed to visit now, in small, strictly limited groups.
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After the feud he refused to allow Jamila to visit her parents.
come
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Simon is overjoyed to see me, because no one has come to visit him since he stopped work.
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Ever since his parents came to visit for Christmas, Berg has started playing more aggressively.
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Why didn't they come and visit me, Mum and Dad?
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Young Cooper was a fool not to have come visiting on his own.
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Dorothy stood by him and came to visit him every day.
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You come visit me, cousin.
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I will tell Sarah you are coming to visit us on Wednesday afternoon.
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You can come back tomorrow during visiting hours.
plan
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I understand that the Minister is planning to visit Raleigh Industries within the next 10 days.
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The only satisfactory resolution is to plan future visits in order to complete a thorough sampling.
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He plans to visit some 100 towns and cities.
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They planned to visit the Rockies and fly on to Vancouver and then down into the States.
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Tam himself plans to visit Washington, he said.
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Originally he had planned to visit her in her apartment tomorrow.
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A friend and I are planning to visit Ireland this summer.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a flying visit
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Its inventor looks like he's on a flying visit to the twentieth century.
conjugal visit
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Even as early as the second stage of imprisonment conjugal visits are permitted every fifteen days.
courtesy visit/call
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To this end an unofficial courtesy visit was arranged and in August 1857 the Imperial couple came to Osborne.
domiciliary services/care/visits etc
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Developments in day care, the home help service and other domiciliary services were the currency of growth in these departments.
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Hence domiciliary visits by medical staff are an integral part of any specialist service.
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It supplements care by kin, but families continue to provide the bulk of domiciliary care.
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Last year only voluntary Welfare Officer alone, made over 102 domiciliary visits.
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Nevertheless, companies trading in domiciliary care are now beginning to multiply - some from a base in the residential sector.
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One of the principal domiciliary services is that of home helps.
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Success typically gives access to one existing service, such as domiciliary care, and rejects another, such as residential care.
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Traditionally the burden of long-term domiciliary care has fallen on women.
fact-finding trip/visit/mission etc
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At that stage, I did not make any connection between my irritability and my fact-finding missions.
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My older brother, who had a crush on my friend, often accompanied me on these fact-finding missions.
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Some pass the evening chatting to a Member of Parliament on a fact-finding mission.
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There is always a Member of Parliament on a fact-finding mission.
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There will also be in-depth discussion on Northern Ireland and the Mr Clinton's plan to send a fact-finding mission.
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There will be no fact-finding missions to any of the countries in question.
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This in turn means swotting up on the subject, going on fact-finding missions and meeting politicians and organisers.
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When on the fact-finding mission, my approach was a lot like yours, matter-of-fact.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A police officer will be visiting next week to give the children a talk on crime prevention.
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Every year thousands of tourists visit Turkey.
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For more information on how you can help, visit our website.
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He was the first traveller from the British Isles to visit Abyssinia.
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How much do you visit with your Mom and Dad while you're here?
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I visit my grandparents at least once a month.
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I don't see him that often, but I like to go and visit with him when I can.
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I went to visit her last winter and I really had a great time.
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Mom and Aunt Jo were sitting drinking coffee and visiting.
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Paul visited her every day when she was in hospital.
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She sent me some photographs of when she visited in December.
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So are you just visiting friends out here or something?
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The Ambassador last visited Hong Kong in 1982.
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The inspection team visited the plant twice in October.
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This afternoon the Queen will visit Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital.
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Thousands of Americans visit Thailand each year.
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We've got some friends visiting from out of town this weekend.
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We spent the day visiting temples and other historic buildings.
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We won't be that far away - you'll be able to come and visit .
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You should visit the dentist twice a year.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Anyone caught visiting the Bookman during these was automatically punished and he kept swapping them around to try and catch people out.
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Clubs are still invited to continue to visit the warehouse by the usual arranged bus trips.
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His management trademark is carrying index cards in his shirt pocket so that he can note mistakes while visiting Darden restaurants.
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Over the same four-week period, Dole spent 21 days on the campaign trail visiting 20 states.
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Tam himself plans to visit Washington, he said.
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They may wish to visit during the building stages.
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While Eva was at Usher, General Coutts visited the country.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
brief
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And Miss Russell was only able to pay a brief visit .
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Some guides are indeed very brief , suggesting visits at breakneck speed where only a few items or rooms will be seen.
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Gandhi exclaimed at a meeting in Madras, on October 26, 1896, during a brief visit to his native land.
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On that first brief visit I made up my mind that one day I would return there.
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But fortunately at that moment her gynaecologist called in for a brief visit and Brian went off to the nursery.
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Promotion for Mr Wilson followed and after a brief visit to Naples to tie up affairs he returned to London.
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Our landing party managed to crowd a lot into their brief visit .
official
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Yesterday he was on an official visit home.
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In April he had paid an official visit to Washington along with Elena.
previous
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But the efficient-looking woman who had manned the reception desk on Folly's previous visit was not yet at her post.
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She had a history of frequent previous such visits with a response to breathing into a paper bag.
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Carolyn was dismayed; she had found the place very frightening on her previous visits .
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It is the same Salvor Hardin, who on his previous visit , ground our noses into the dust.
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It was hard to believe that they had lost on their 11 previous visits to Old Trafford.
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The fact he had been defeated on his five previous visits to the Cheltenham festival mattered not.
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Robbie remembered the crystal ball from his previous visit .
recent
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My most recent visit produced a sloughed skin threaded through the turf.
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But Sadat did not let those memories paralyze her, she recalled in a recent visit here.
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Five Days in Dubai An account of my recent visit to Dubai will be in my next diary.
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I was glad that that was recognised by Mr. Baker on his recent visit to the Soviet Union.
regular
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However, even this chore was quickly organised to accommodate regular visits to his beloved Scourie.
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So I may anticipate regular visits of inspection and solicitude while they wait for me to get a belly full of independence.
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Prisons are exempt from having regular visits from environmental health officers, but in April 1992 this Crown Immunity will be lifted.
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Sweet things should be an after-meal treat only. Regular visits to the dentist are still important.
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Your doctor and the hospital will arrange for you to make regular visits for antenatal care.
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She makes regular visits to Osteopath, Steven Davies in Cheltenham for treatment.
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Sir John pays regular visits to the traders to offer advice.
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Nicklaus made regular visits to oversee operations as the course was being carved out of the lush countryside.
return
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But when the Establishment booked a return visit for the comedian for 8 April 1963 it had problems.
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During his long walk home, he tried to figure out how to justify a return visit .
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The event was such a success that club members are very much looking forward to him making a return visit .
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Their elephant of a house was subordinate to no white mansion, and no Commonwealth Avenue calling cards urged return visits .
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Another statistic - 64 percent of Somerwest's 320,000 customers last year were paying a return visit .
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The crisis of the eighties occasions a return visit .
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There was some urgency because the return visit from Sochi was about to take place.
■ NOUN
state
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You can dish them out to visiting dignitaries at the end of a state visit.
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Clinton flies to Tokyo late Tuesday for a two-day state visit .
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I look forward to your state visit to Brigantia.
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She explained that she wore furs and her jewelry only when she traveled abroad with her husband on state visits .
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Sadat had ordered photographs of the Shah, left over from an earlier state visit , to be mounted along the route.
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This week was her first state visit here in 17 years.
■ VERB
arrange
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Before my marriage, I had to arrange a visit to the mikva.
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She helped to arrange a visit to some families who lived nearby.
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Normally it takes about six days to arrange a visit , even if you cable both ways.
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Joette, never one for passive visitors, has soon arranged my visits to coincide with the weekly pumpkin observations.
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I asked the probation department if they could arrange a visit as it didn't look like anyone else was going to.
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They had arranged all sorts of visits and expeditions for her, but she stayed mostly in Satipur because of Douglas.
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Of course, our various Ministries are happy to arrange visits to fine restaurants, the concert, the opera, the ballet.
begin
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It was not long before several families from Titagarh began making weekly visits to the mobile dispensary.
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The Pope began a week-long visit to the Holy Land.
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My story begins with a visit to a great friend of mine, John Blackwell.
follow
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The move follows a visit to the fire department in St Petersburg by a group of firemen from the county.
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Julie is admitted as an emergency on the request of her General Practitioner following a home visit .
include
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The Duke of Edinburgh would include a visit to her Medau group.
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The account of his stay in Naples includes a visit to Pompeii and the ascent of Vesuvius.
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Daily itineraries included visits to schools, universities, hospitals, businesses, concerts and historic sites.
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Hospital discharge procedures for elderly people often include a trial visit home and multidisciplinary conferences with community workers and hospital workers.
make
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The event was such a success that club members are very much looking forward to him making a return visit .
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Valparaiso is a fine university making its first visit to the tournament.
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I can catch a bus and make a visit .
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Last Monday, Clinton made his seventh visit to Ohio this year.
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Over the years I made the occasional visit to Cheltenham.
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I am now going to make a visit .
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He had made another visit as well, about which he had not told the King.
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It makes for a comprehensive visit .
pay
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And Miss Russell was only able to pay a brief visit .
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Helen, a woman in her late sixties, has a case of insomnia and pays her doctor a visit .
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No, Robert insisted, he could not, would not, pay a visit to such distant parts.
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She told me she left him the day after Lew Edwards and I paid a curious visit to idyllic Acra.
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Dolly was paying frequent visits to the house.
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Her brother paid a visit at her convent one day.
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Another statistic - 64 percent of Somerwest's 320,000 customers last year were paying a return visit .
plan
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We therefore advise anyone planning a visit to book early.
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Bob Dole of Kansas, plan numerous visits to the state in the months ahead.
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It is useful to plan a programme of visits , investigating software on one subject at a time.
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Valda and Varvara have planned the visit while walking back and forth across the school courtyard with books balanced on their heads.
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Record cards should be provided by management and salespeople encouraged to use them as part of the sales plan before each visit .
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For teachers and students there is a wealth of valuable research material and all the information required to plan an educational visit .
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I was annoyed at having to ask, to plan my visit around Oliver Ingraham.
receive
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She would receive visits only from her husband and Louisa.
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Family graves may occasionally receive a visit by a lone person shouldering a glum aura.
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On the day we finally got the job finished we received a visit from John Hall.
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She hardly ever received a visit , or even a letter.
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At that time you will receive a visit from a man.
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Taylor received their unexpected visits , notices arrived in the mail informing them that they were being taken to court.
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Undoubtedly you will receive a visit from the hospital chaplain.
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Most had never received visits from employers with job openings for high school graduates.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a flying visit
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Its inventor looks like he's on a flying visit to the twentieth century.
conjugal visit
▪
Even as early as the second stage of imprisonment conjugal visits are permitted every fifteen days.
courtesy visit/call
▪
To this end an unofficial courtesy visit was arranged and in August 1857 the Imperial couple came to Osborne.
domiciliary services/care/visits etc
▪
Developments in day care, the home help service and other domiciliary services were the currency of growth in these departments.
▪
Hence domiciliary visits by medical staff are an integral part of any specialist service.
▪
It supplements care by kin, but families continue to provide the bulk of domiciliary care.
▪
Last year only voluntary Welfare Officer alone, made over 102 domiciliary visits.
▪
Nevertheless, companies trading in domiciliary care are now beginning to multiply - some from a base in the residential sector.
▪
One of the principal domiciliary services is that of home helps.
▪
Success typically gives access to one existing service, such as domiciliary care, and rejects another, such as residential care.
▪
Traditionally the burden of long-term domiciliary care has fallen on women.
fact-finding trip/visit/mission etc
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At that stage, I did not make any connection between my irritability and my fact-finding missions.
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My older brother, who had a crush on my friend, often accompanied me on these fact-finding missions.
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Some pass the evening chatting to a Member of Parliament on a fact-finding mission.
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There is always a Member of Parliament on a fact-finding mission.
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There will also be in-depth discussion on Northern Ireland and the Mr Clinton's plan to send a fact-finding mission.
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There will be no fact-finding missions to any of the countries in question.
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This in turn means swotting up on the subject, going on fact-finding missions and meeting politicians and organisers.
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When on the fact-finding mission, my approach was a lot like yours, matter-of-fact.
pay (sb) a call/visit
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Another out-of-town visitor paid a call last month.
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Having met his hero one evening at a small gathering, he was invited to pay a call the following week.
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I was more than once surprised to see men going into those rooms, paying visits to the legless men.
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Latimer is living apart from people, divorced even from religious faith by his visions, when Charles Meunier pays a visit.
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No, Robert insisted, he could not, would not, pay a visit to such distant parts.
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The Marshal decided it was time to pay a visit to Headquarters.
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Then one day, just for old times' sake, I paid a visit to Winston Street.
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They were scheduled to pay a visit to another model resettlement village that morning - their last official tour.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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It was my first visit to my wife's parents' house.
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Polly and I had a nice long visit .
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She took the whole class out there for a visit .
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The girls were quite excited because they were expecting a visit from their parents.
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The president will make a brief visit to Britain before returning home.
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The Queen will pay a state visit to China later this year.
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The Senator's visit to the Military Academy at Andover was a great success.
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We're all looking forward to your visit .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At each visit they will feel your abdomen, and find out how high the top of the womb has risen.
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During the visit a glimpse of the future Garratt type locomotive was obtained.
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He doesn't see or talk to anyone from the works this visit .
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Members of the economic development and planning subcommittee voted to refuse planning permission after a site visit yesterday.
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Reading face five meetings in four days over Easter, starting with a Gold Cup visit to Poole this afternoon.
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The Christmas visits are seen as part of the long recovery process after the accident.
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Two days before the President's visit they began to dress the mast like a Christmas tree.