adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a brick/stone/wooden building
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The farmhouse is a long stone building about a century old.
a cardboard/wooden/plastic box
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We packed all our things into big cardboard boxes.
a stone/wooden/iron bridge
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The iron bridge was built in 1811.
a wooden floor
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The hut had a muddy wooden floor.
a wooden/china/glass etc bowl
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I broke a china bowl.
a wooden/iron/wrought-iron gate
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Their way was barred by huge wrought-iron gates.
a wooden/mahogany/rosewood etc desk
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He sat at a plain wooden desk.
a wooden/plastic/leather etc chair
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In the kitchen was a table with six wooden chairs around it.
steel/iron/wooden etc rod
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The walls are reinforced with steel rods.
wooden spoon
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
beam
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The roofs are flat, fully exposed to the rain, made by packing mud on wooden reeds resting on wooden beams .
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Before the coarse brown fabric hung an austere gibbet, constructed of two weathered wooden beams .
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All the tables and chairs are of solid dark wood to match the dark stained original wooden beams of the mill.
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It was made of corrugated metal and wooden beams and had scores of windows that could be broken but not shattered.
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The wooden beams and ceiling were crackling in the extreme heat.
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The warehouses are built of stone and have wooden beam hoists on the gable walls.
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Beam fire: A wooden beam in a chimney caught fire at a house in Darlington Road, Northallerton.
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Their nest is in the wooden beams , some 15 feet above the floor.
bench
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And as the camera glides, it passes a couple sitting on a single, simple wooden bench overlooking the garden.
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We crossed Main Street and went into a little park, sat on a wooden bench under a huge scraggly tree.
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The approach to the bar's terrace was guarded by two old women taking the sun on a wooden bench .
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In the meantime I enclose a selection of wooden bench designs.
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The sides are lined with narrow wooden benches .
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There was a long wooden bench under the window, littered with instruments and jars.
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Because the wooden benches were filled with sleeping soldiers returning from war.
block
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In it, there are three wooden blocks labelled A, B and C, and a table.
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Two, which hold wooden blocks , are on rolling coasters, and they are permanently available.
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Lay out the small, smooth wooden blocks or small boxes where the living compartments for the ants are to be.
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Tripped on the wooden blocks painted to look like ice, the doll careening away from her down between the blocks.
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Teacher: Mark, go and get the heaviest wooden block that you can find.
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Straight in at Number 12, it consists of a tower of wooden blocks .
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This one had electric lights on either side of the mirror and two on a wooden block along the top.
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They put the catapult into position and placed wooden blocks in front of the wheels to stop it rolling into the sea.
box
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There was an ironing-board, two kitchen chairs and a couple of broken wooden boxes snaked around the front room.
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Professor Marsh eventually took almost five hundred ton-sized wooden boxes of bones from the Como Bluff quarries.
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To the right a padlocked wooden box was fixed to the grille.
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She opened up a wooden box and took out a pair of crystal earrings.
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I didn't mind; it kept my thoughts off morbid fancies about Granny in her wooden box .
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There is another round wooden box on the shelf, though the wood is darker and the design more intricate.
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He said, well, they come in big cases and big wooden boxes and packing and so forth.
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For modern sculpture, galleries use a tall wooden box , stained or painted.
bridge
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The wooden bridge over the river was destroyed but shortly afterwards was replaced by a similar structure.
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Driving over the white wooden bridge that led to the farm, I found I was nursing an odd, melancholy excitement.
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That was the old wooden bridge .
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Moss gardens, straw-mat rooms, wooden bridges arching in the moonlight, paper lanterns with the fire glowing inside.
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In the wonderful autumn afternoons they walked by streams, crossing on little wooden bridges .
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A winter stream runs past and to enter the house, one has to cross a small wooden bridge .
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The river Limmat flows through Baden and is crossed by an old wooden bridge .
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I cross the wooden bridge to the windmill, the planks yielding under my feet.
building
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He took it up and flew to a stance on one of the wooden buildings round the Park.
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He disappeared between two tottering wooden buildings and was enclosed by lines of faded laundry.
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We drift around looking the place over for accommodation, eventually selecting a wooden building called Sand Dune Apartments.
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The wooden buildings badly needed paint.
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The farms were wooden buildings on stilts, with terracotta roofs that glowed peachy-orange against the forest greenery.
chair
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Chamber 3d holds a large dining table with 10 massive wooden chairs .
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He sat in the wooden chair before the desk and lit a cigarette.
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At their most basic, rush and cane seats provided more comfortable seating than the wooden chairs and stools that preceded them.
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There was one white wooden chair in the corner beneath wall cabinets.
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Those across the way claimed ringside seats on wooden chairs , each sitter shielded by a thick cotton-lace curtain.
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Then, in the center of the room facing the window, the wooden table with a single stiff-backed wooden chair .
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I leaned back in the wooden chair and stretched.
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Wu Tak Seng himself is sitting on a varnished wooden chair in his doorway, in singlet and baggy shorts.
chest
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Just occasionally, wooden chests were used as coffins, but only for very wealthy people.
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I leave her my two good leather suitcases in the wooden chest near the front door.
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There had been no attempts on the jewels, which remained unmolested in their wooden chest .
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They painted murals on the walls, foliage on the ceilings, and patterns on wooden chests .
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In a corner of Frankie's room stood a large wooden chest whose drawers were too stiff for him to open.
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They had a wooden chest for their clothes.
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He put them all away in the big wooden chest .
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A fine old wooden chest covered with intricate brass, nail-head designs was discovered, cleaned and placed in the hall.
crate
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I got to sit down after that, and I find a wooden crate .
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A pound and a quarter of C-4 explosive was tied with an explosive cord to wooden crates holding the rockets.
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This nanny worked in the big brewery down Manchester Road, capping the bottles and loading them into wooden crates .
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And much of the liquid used to simulate nerve gas at the test site was contained by the wooden crates .
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Maura sat on the wooden crate .
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The cabin is gouged open, spilling out wooden crates , twisted pieces of metal, a blown-up life raft.
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The second, lit by a single row of fluorescent lights, was stacked with large wooden crates from end to end.
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He looked around at all the cartons and wooden crates .
cross
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At the back of the raised platform at one end of the hall was a wooden cross , about six feet high.
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He buried the bodies in one grave with a single wooden cross as a marker; then notified the Commonwealth.
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There is a hand-painted wooden cross .
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A rough wooden cross rises from it.
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A plain wooden cross , about twelve feet tall, and six feet from arm to arm.
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His back was supported by a wooden cross , his feet against the clay, facing towards the enemy.
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The wooden cross had been dug up and a new large memorial stone had been erected in its place.
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The wooden crosses he said broke church regulations.
door
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The large wooden door swung on its hinges, banging into the wall, cracking the plastered stone.
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Two large wooden doors with windows.
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We reached the bungalow of Sheikha Grandmother, crossed the porch and pushed open the carved wooden doors of the dining room.
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The huge wooden doors shut snugly to create a haven safe from flying glass.
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Ian pressed on down the passage, down two steps, until he came to the small wooden door in the fabric.
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The heavy chocolate brown wooden door had been recently repainted.
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The entrance to the tunnel was a low wooden door .
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Through the fifteenth-century wooden door there is little to detain the visitor, just a few tantalizing traces of eleventh-century frescoes.
fence
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Follow a wooden fence to cross a stile and head to the waymarked gate downhill from the farm buildings on the left.
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He stayed at his side, directing him toward the wooden fence , then moving him back toward the gate.
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He ran, and came with the front rank to the perimeter path and the low wooden fence .
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They walked along the tall wooden fence that cut the construction site off from the avenue.
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His car had plunged down a motorway verge and into a wooden fence .
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Q: I planted nine tomatoes by a wooden fence and six close to the back wall of the house.
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At the bottom of the hill there was a wooden fence .
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Interesting place, a large wooden dwelling in Tuscan red with green shutters behind a high brown wooden fence .
floor
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The sound of footsteps on the wooden floor of the staging was faint but distinct.
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There were seven or eight people sitting on the wooden floor in the room.
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In the early hours of Thursday morning, the murderer skewered him to the wooden floor of a refreshment hut.
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Inside a yellow barn set in rolling green hills, 10 Sufis spin like synchronized tops across the wooden floor .
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She sprawled flat on the hard wooden floor , her cry abruptly silenced as all the air rushed out of her body.
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I blinked at the old wooden floor with misunderstanding.
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This scheme was suggested by the need to remove the partially rotten wooden floor , thus deepening the space available for subdivision.
frame
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After much midnight hammering, a large wooden frame , covered in chicken wire with a drop down door was constructed.
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They decorated the place with hanging plants and printed fabrics stretched over wooden frames .
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I feel under the edge of the mattress, above the wooden frame of the huge bed.
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The painting is small, about 8 by 12 inches in its carved wooden frame .
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He went back to find Tyson and Shaw asleep beneath their wooden frame .
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I moved over and peered out of one, catching a glimpse of backyard through screens rusted into the old wooden frames .
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In other instances a rectangular wooden frame was employed.
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I could see my father strumming the guitar, plucking our ancient, mournful history from the hollowness of its wooden frame .
gate
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A brief moon between clouds outside sharpened the lines of boxwood that led to the wooden gate .
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They led us through the narrow streets to the tall wooden gate of the ryokan.
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She paused to stare at a wooden gate swinging crazily on its hinges.
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Several women and a man stand before the open wooden gates of the courtyard of the church.
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Tom carefully opened a sagging wooden gate and went up a stone path that led around the side of the house.
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A few pointed inquiries brought me to an old wooden gate that was in need of repair.
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They pushed open the long wooden gate where he sat.
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A narrow weaving crazy path Leads to a wooden gate , While cats slink along the wall From dusk until I wake.
handle
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The knife in Dennis's paw was sharp and serrated, with a sturdy wooden handle .
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Explanation Put the hammer down on the table with the wooden handle touching the edge.
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In his right hand he's holding a curved knife with a short wooden handle .
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Now move the wooden handle of the hammer gradually over the edge of the table.
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Bob Grant Fixing handles Q Could you please tell me the best method of fixing turned wooden handles to cutlery blanks?
house
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We have passed other wooden houses , but they all appeared to be shut up and abandoned.
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For 10 days, many small apartment buildings and old wooden houses had no heat.
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They remind me of tiny wooden houses on a Monopoly board.
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Ruptured gas lines resulted in fires that gutted entire communities of wooden houses , leaving behind smoldering embers resembling a bomb site.
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She pushed it open; it was an old wooden house door drooping on one hinge.
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During the 70s we lived in a wooden house that had been treated with a then-popular protection varnish.
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Like a sheet of crepe paper, the wooden house burst into flames and burned to the ground in minutes.
hut
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There are also some wooden huts and everything is fenced in to keep out the wolves and curious locals.
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Inside there were some long wooden huts which occupied almost all the space.
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This is a direct transference to stone or brick building of the primitive wooden hut method mentioned earlier. 2.
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Above them, little wooden huts were perched in higher meadows.
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This was a wooden hut in which there was some old machinery that generated electricity for the house.
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He lives in a glorious wooden hut with several equally attractive out-buildings.
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I decided against looking into the tumbledown wooden hut that had once housed the coal hopper controls.
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It came from a wooden hut at the edge of a field.
leg
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He seized another wooden leg and smashed the glass in the nearest cases with it.
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Beyond the group of shirted enlisted men, I could see the wooden legs of a map tripod through the tent door.
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Check closely to see if the body has a wooden leg .
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Despite her wooden leg , she was able to fend him off easily.
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The man with the wooden leg .
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Gold claws at the end of twisted wooden legs .
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The bloke with the wooden leg made funny noises as he came up the stairs.
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As he moved along the rows of guns, his wooden leg sounded dull thuds.
plank
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Facing him across the bleached wooden plank , Melissa became aware of an extraordinary change in his manner.
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The water was above his ankles, flowing over the wooden plank he slept on.
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Stripped or new brick makes a good kitchen background, so does tongue-and-groove wood panelling or panelling of wide wooden planks .
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But the ceiling is made of rough wooden planks and the floor of mud.
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There were wooden planks beneath them which seemed to lie against their bones.
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Presently he was there, he had arrived at the wooden planks and the criss-crossed supports of the bridge.
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A stevedore negligently dropped a wooden plank into the hold of the ship.
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I revived as I felt myself go hurtling through the air and crashed down on to the wooden planks of the scaffold.
platform
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Above, on a wooden platform , are the mill stones, accompanied by one or two antique items of interest.
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Most of them had shingled awnings borne on prominent brackets projecting over their simple wooden platforms .
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When you die there they put you on a wooden platform below the sky and the vultures come and eat the body.
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Susan and Breeze seized their meagre luggage and stepped out on to the tiny wooden platform .
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For me, five hundred men built a special wooden platform with twenty-two wheels.
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By rail you could alight at the tiny wooden platform that has been used by servicemen for decades.
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The Charwighul people laid out their dead on a wooden platform and covered them with reed mats.
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Two feet in front of them was the catwalk, a bare narrow wooden platform angling away from a curtained entrance.
pole
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Nervously, I moved forward, fumbling round the battlements until I came to a protruding wooden pole .
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There are no telephones, no fire hydrants, only a scattering of street lights on lonely wooden poles .
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Endill noticed he was standing beside a thick wooden pole .
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In one corner of the grounds, a 13-year-old boy is busy sawing wooden poles in half.
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The floor was of bare earth, and a ring of wooden poles supported the roof.
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Windows are draped with matching curtains, simply suspended on plain wooden poles .
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The decline in the demand for wooden poles has been accelerated by the frequent use of metal poles.
post
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Talking to Rourke Deveraugh was like beating her head against a hard wooden post .
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This is especially troublesome in urban homes, where the animals have little access to wooden posts or trees.
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A high wide bed with a dark red cover Pillows banked at one end, and wooden posts .
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They forced their way on to adjoining land and cut through chain-link fencing and large wooden posts cemented into the ground.
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It is understood that he was beaten with a wooden post before he was stabbed.
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A line of wooden posts marks the rift.
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The snow was relatively unmarked here, packed high around a great wooden post with a beam jutting out like a scaffold.
rod
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There is also a matrix of wooden rods , metal pipes, and other objects in various configurations and depths.
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The hangers draped down in rows from horizontal wooden rods , the blooms pointing toward the floor.
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He hugged the banister, counting its bar-like wooden rods until he reached the turn where it met the wall.
seat
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The chief innovation however, were the 32 passengers who sat along wooden seats at each side.
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The boat ride to the park from the fishing village Labuan is seven hours on hard wooden seats .
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He passed the wooden seats , ducked under the willows, and the last they saw of him was his undulating shadow.
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The wooden seat , when she lifted herself on to it, was still warm.
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A maze of paths with unique wooden seats and bridges enables the weathered and moss-covered rocks to be seen at their best.
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Somehow, he had moved closer, and their thighs were pressed together on the wooden seat .
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At one side was the royal enclosure with row after row of wooden seats , all covered in purple or gold cloth.
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The 21-year-old skinhead sitting to my left began to squirm in his wooden seat .
shutter
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Otherwise use Venetian blinds in plastic or wood which can be easily wiped, or wooden shutters , or no covering at all.
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The wooden shutters of the market booths were closing now.
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Wishart rose and crossed the darkened chamber to secure one of the wooden shutters .
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She went back to her room, pulled the wooden shutters across the windows and lay on the bed.
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With the stairs enclosed by wooden shutters , they could operate in bad weather as single-deckers.
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I stepped into a cool, dark room, where heavy wooden shutters kept out most of the daylight.
slat
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Continental style bases have flexible wooden slats and are often contained within a traditional divan.
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The backs of the trucks are jammed with young men and teenagers pressed against wooden slats .
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The wooden slats had bleached grey.
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We were lifting metal girders on to a lorry and securing them in place with wooden slats which we nailed together.
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The wooden slats were already warm from the sun.
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There was no glass in the frame, just thin wooden slats to allow some passage of air.
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The three ruffians pummelled me, banging my head against the wooden slats .
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A legless beggar pulled himself along through the slush on wooden slats .
spoon
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Original fines had included one of £900 for a cracked wooden spoon .
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Deglaze pan with wine, stirring with a wooden spoon to loosen food particles.
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Add the flour, semolina and currants and stir into the batter with a wooden spoon .
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When all the cornmeal is added, begin stirring with a long-handled wooden spoon .
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Buying two wooden spoons can be more fun at this time than purchasing an expensive set of china in later years.
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With wooden spoon , cream butter and peanut butter until smooth, add sugar and cream well.
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Thérèse called out to the wooden spoon clotted with Dijon mustard.
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In the family trash they found the remnants of a broken wooden spoon wrapped in a bloody diaper.
stair
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The narrow wooden stairs echoed as they ran up.
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Hughes went up the wooden stairs first.
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The wooden stairs along the north wall lead directly upwards to location 53. 32.
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Hughes walked up a short set of wooden stairs .
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The lodge contained a large hall below and a banqueting room above, connected by a grand wooden stair .
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Quickly, he ducked through the unadorned side door of the building and began climbing the four flights of rickety wooden stairs .
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Access was gained via a flight of external wooden stairs .
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Catherine climbed worn wooden stairs , up five flights in all, until she reached the attic storey.
staircase
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Down the great wide wooden staircase and into the hall: I am sharp, she thought.
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The space age escalator and exposed metal piping of the foyer segued into a spiraling wooden staircase and crinkly old master prints.
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Baptiste was standing on the bottom step of the wooden staircase , affecting surprise at the sight of her.
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Standing on top of the wooden staircase she hurled herself to the ground, landing in a heap at the bottom.
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A china light-switch, finger-flicked, showed her a narrow wooden staircase .
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Ranulf scooped his dice into his leather wallet and they went down the spiral wooden staircase and into the hall.
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Chewing on her lower lip, she trundled after him along a flagged passageway and up an ornate wooden staircase .
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Some one clattered down a wooden staircase .
structure
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The convent garden harboured herbs and a yellow flowering vine flourishing over a falling wooden structure .
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The building itself was a bleached wooden structure that enclosed a single small room.
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He left from a mean wooden structure at Parel, near Government House.
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One was a simple wooden structure carved in the shape of the building.
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The building itself a glass, steel, concrete and wooden structure is anything but sepulchral.
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Long Bridge in those days was quite a rickety wooden structure , which shook as you walked across.
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She saw it almost immediately, the black wooden structure in sharp relief against the evening sky.
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Ryokan are typically wooden structures up to three stories.
table
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In the centre of the room was a large wooden table holding a stoneware jar of dried flowers.
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Topic Vibrations Materials A wooden table or desk Demonstration 1.
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It was empty apart from a round wooden table , a large golden picture frame on one wall and a cupboard.
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The kitchen was like a big utility room with a huge sink, a stone floor, and a large wooden table .
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They ordered gins, and sat on a wooden bench before a wooden table , while Karen admired the place.
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Inside, under flickering rushlight, on a long wooden table scrubbed to whiteness, were the first trays of crusty bread.
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They came upon a small crowd gathered around a long wooden table that had posters of Sophia Loren hanging along the front.
wall
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Sigus hung or painted right on to its wooden walls indicate an office, a clinic, a meeting room.
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Staying close to the wooden wall , he crept along between the shed and the hedge.
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Loosened birch-bark flapped from the roofs and sections of the wooden walls lay sprawled on the ground, flattened by gales.
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That's what Nelson meant, you know, when he talked about wooden walls .
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The wooden walls shook and the alien noise echoed around the small building, and for a while the noise stopped.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
win/collect/take etc the wooden spoon
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When he motioned for her to take the wooden spoon from him she did so, avoiding touching him at all costs.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a wooden box
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Dr. Harvey usually seems very wooden during his lectures.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After the sweet juice is extracted, they carry it in wooden buckets on their heads to the next stage.
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Beyond the group of shirted enlisted men, I could see the wooden legs of a map tripod through the tent door.
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He was indeed a carpenter, and spent his spare time carving small wooden toys for his children.
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One was normal except for some wooden dividers which had been set upon its surface.
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Original fines had included one of £900 for a cracked wooden spoon.
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The entrance to the tunnel was a low wooden door.
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The old bats included a plastic, an aluminum and a wooden one.
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There was an ironing-board, two kitchen chairs and a couple of broken wooden boxes snaked around the front room.