I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a living/waking nightmare (= something extremely bad that happens in your life )
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Being told I had cancer was a waking nightmare.
every waking moment (= all the time you are awake )
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He spent every waking moment in the lab.
get up/wake up/be up early
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Set the alarm for six – I have to be up early tomorrow.
wake up to reality (= realize what is happening or real )
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Well, they need to wake up to reality.
wake/be woken from a deep/long etc sleep
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A very long time later I woke from a deep sleep.
wake/be woken from a deep/long etc sleep
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A very long time later I woke from a deep sleep.
woke to find
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She woke to find a man by her bed.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
early
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He wakes early next morning, and gets out at once, anxious to get to grips with the city.
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She was woken early this morning by a burglar alarm.
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When I wake early to the dawn chorus, I turn my face into my pillow, hoping to prolong the dream.
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The blonde student woke early in Devon, and shifted under the sleeping weight of his arm.
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Jay woke early , and turned to hold Lucy.
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I wake early to the phone.
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She woke early , happy, and calm.
suddenly
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Aunt Sophie woke suddenly , eyes clear, as though she had never been asleep.
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He had suddenly woken up realizing that his blurry baby had finally become quite outrageous.
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I wake suddenly in the night, aware of the others breathing and the wind banging the tent fabric.
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Now I was about to meet him again, it was as if I had suddenly woken up from a syrupy dream.
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I was woken suddenly when my box was lifted high in the air.
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Lancaster grunted, as if suddenly waking from a reverie.
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I woke suddenly with my hand on my piece.
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Later on that evening, Randolph woke suddenly , hearing a banging noise on his door.
■ NOUN
fact
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The brewers have at last woken up to the fact that their high-street shops have become dinosaurs slouching towards extinction.
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Their faces burn with a shame like they have just woke up to the fact they been played for suckers again.
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But whatever the motive, international business is at least waking up to the fact that a social conscience can be good for business.
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Gradually the world is waking up to the fact that they are winning.
middle
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I woke in the middle of the night and walked downstairs.
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I wake up in the middle of the night from a dream.
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If she woke up in the middle of the night, she'd be frightened.
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Powell woke Howland in the middle of the night and poured out his conviction, but it was too late.
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Maureen West says her daughter is still having nightmares and waking up in the middle of the night.
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I woke up in the middle of the night and took all of Jay's clothes out of the wardrobe.
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I woke up in the middle of the night to find that I was completely and utterly saturated.
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But there's one thing which still sometimes wakes me in the middle of the night.
morning
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Early this morning she woke to find a masked gang standing in her bedroom.
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Christmas morning I woke with the first blue light.
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That morning Ellis woke up in Jane's bed.
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In the morning I woke up and turned over; a big cloud of dust rose from the mattress.
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On the Monday morning he woke up very early, just as it was getting light.
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The next morning , Jody wakes up in the dark at six with-out the usual urgings of the alarm clock.
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Next morning , Folly woke up half expecting that it would all turn out to be a dream.
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The next morning he woke up coughing and gagging as her father yanked him up by the collar.
night
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The night before she had woken uneasy.
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One night he woke to the sound of the fire alarm whooping.
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In the dead of night I woke up for some reason, and lay listening to the others as they slept.
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Several times each night she woke up crying and needed to be rocked back to sleep.
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A few nights later I was woken by a noise at about two in the morning.
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That night I woke up past mid-night and had to use the bathroom.
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At night Janir woke constantly: four times, five times, I was never sure how many.
sound
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Few people have not woken to the sounds of the dawn chorus nor seen moths drawn to artificial lights as daylight fades.
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One night he woke to the sound of the fire alarm whooping.
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Marlene woke to the sound of a heavy weight being dragged across the floor.
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I woke to the sound of voices, the shuffling of shoes against the bare wood floor.
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The fires signalled to something else as well ... Shortly before daybreak Tallis was woken by the distant sound of a hunting horn.
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He did not know how long he lay there but was woken by the sound of turning pages.
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She woke later to the sound of a voice calling out in panic.
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I woke to the sound of torrential rain.
start
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Marlene woke with a start , her whole body ached and she was freezing cold.
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He woke up with a start at dawn.
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She gave it a little shake and it woke up with a start .
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He soon fell asleep, but woke with a start when his grandmother plucked out a hair.
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Captain Richard Moore's day begins as the ring of the telephone wakes him with a start from a deep sleep.
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Sometime in the middle of the night I woke with a start , as Clarisa climbed on to the cot.
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Jack Foley woke with a start .
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When she woke with a start , it was already late.
■ VERB
remember
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I remember waking with my face in it the first whole night we spent together.
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I remember waking up and feel-ing this poncho liner bubbling up a little bit.
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The next thing she remembered was being woken up and told the house was on fire.
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I remember waking up and reaching down automatically and realising that they had shaved me which was my biggest shock.
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She shivered, remembering how waking to find his face so close to hers had made her insides quake.
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I remember waking up in my tent.
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The next thing I do remember is waking up in a very grand house a few streets away from where the robbery took place.
try
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On suddenly realising he is dreaming, he may try to wake up only to find that his body seems paralysed.
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But do not try to wake him into a higher level.
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Grainne raised herself cautiously on one elbow, trying not to wake Raynor, and looked towards the door.
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I tried to wake him up in the morning and the whole bed was filled with blood.
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Get across there and try to wake the Putts, Seb.
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His young curate, Father Gannon, was trying to wake him up.
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She began to beat on the worm's flesh, trying to wake the children, calling, shouting, yelling.
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Anyone who tried to sleep was woken up by bright lights and an officer running a stick along the cell bars.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
waking hours/life/day etc
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Every second of his waking hours, he was watched.
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He inhales desert lore and data all his waking hours.
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Indeed we sometimes spend a lot of our waking hours making sure that everything is as secure as we can make it.
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Real will is an attribute of consciousness, not of the sleep in which most people pass their waking lives.
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She still wanted to look as she did in waking life, but there were improvements she could make.
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Some people wrestle with their problems until the very last minutes of their waking hours.
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The documentation that he signed said, observe this resident one on one during waking hours.
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We were young and our waking hours were given to games.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Dad said he woke up at five this morning.
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Try not to wake the baby if you go in the bedroom.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And he woke up with more than just his stomach growling.
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But do not try to wake him into a higher level.
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Fourteenth-century Wandsworth was waking up, deciding it could have another ten minutes, and turning over in its warm straw.
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It was impossible to wake anyone in the house.
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The windows of the house glowed suddenly bright, like the eyes of some monster waking in the dark.
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Then Mrs Dempster woke him as usual with a cup of tea, and he felt better.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
bring
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But again political events were overtaking the scheme and bringing in their wake a radical reshaping of the whole programme.
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One also needs to be wary of the inequalities that market mechanisms bring in their wake .
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Saying that they are inner things brings scepticism in its wake .
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Desire brings in its wake sorrow, unrest and disappointment.
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But it brings problems in its wake .
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We are also aware of the need to halt the environmental degradation that overproduction brings in its wake .
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Technological change brings in its wake social change.
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It may also bring in its wake the danger of a too-ready acceptance of that which is not yet proven.
come
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The interest in the sale comes in the wake of Durham County Council's decision to close eight of its homes.
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He has refused to come to the wake or to the funeral.
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The establishment of first and middle schools came in the wake of the Plowden Report of 1966.
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The move comes in the wake of the recent Echo Inquiry which exposed the potential danger in flats and bedsits.
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Proud parents and a mass of other churchgoers came in their wake .
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The latter move came in the wake of parliament's decision of Dec. 11 temporarily to suspend the privatization process.
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The agreement came in the wake of a fourth attempt, in as many weeks, to reach a consensus among members.
follow
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The service trades have always followed in the wake of the producing industries.
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He merely followed in their wake , a dark ragged figure guided by the blossoming plums.
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Cattle Ranching Hungry subsistence farmers follow in the wake of loggers.
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A regimental musician who had become detached from his unit, he followed in the wake of the attack as a spectator.
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Others, inspired by my example, are following in my wake .
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And out he went, with J.. Philip Flynn following in his wake .
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Ronni followed in his wake , wondering what was coming next.
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As the code gained widespread acceptance, certain logical consequences followed in its wake .
leave
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He seemed to make a habit of charging through her life and leaving destruction in his wake .
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The rain had finished, leaving in its wake a vast, permeating leakage, the river noise of runoff.
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And such a world will have to get used to the social and political instability which these crises leave in their wake .
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Several high-ranking Apple executives, including its top marketing officer, have left in the wake of Jobs' ascendance.
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He left them in his wake and when a little distance separated them from him, he heard one call out to him.
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The business-as-usual measures the organization has taken in response to the crisis leave in their wake a corrosive residue.
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Bottom turns and cut-backs are performed along the wave leaving a wiggly wake .
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But officials switched from one theory to another in the following days, leaving confusion in their wake .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But if Nader is having problems capturing the magical double-digit support level, his nearest third-party rivals are floundering in his wake .
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I was like a water-skier without the skis, dragged through the wake of an uncompromising culture by my neck.
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In each half of the wake the eddy consists of two parallel vortex tubes of opposite sense.
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In its wake , tens of thousands are slipping off, quietly once more, to sanctuaries abroad.
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In the wake of the Clause, the Stonewall Trust was set up.
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On the way up, the slightest connection with the deceased or his family was enough reason to attend a wake .
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Salomon discards a pay plan in the wake of a string of key departures.
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The interest in the sale comes in the wake of Durham County Council's decision to close eight of its homes.