noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a repair shop/yard (= a place where things of a particular kind are repaired )
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He works in a shoe repair shop.
every few feet/ten yards etc
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There were traffic lights every ten yards.
junk yard
knackers' yard
marshalling yard
yard sale
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
back
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The three adults seemed to be catapulted from their seats as they ran out into the back yard .
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Camp greeter Alexandra made the campground her back yard .
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Books about anatomy, born from fire in the back yard .
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Which is probably why he and his team are so well-liked far outside Florida State's back yard .
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This flawless, cork screwed white-knuckle ride should roll and roll into 1993 and your back yard .
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More clay pots can hold geraniums or other summer flowers that add color to a patio or back yard .
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Nine months ago Tessa the Collie was found starving in a back yard in Aylesbury.
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They moved in recently and paved half of my back yard , where I wanted to grow a garden in the spring.
front
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The ceaseless deluge had turned the small front yard of the cottage into a swamp.
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Lost Jaguar and butterflies Next door, Steve Fischer waded through his front yard .
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Old bicycles and a long-disused pram are scattered across the muddy front yard .
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The guy was standing knock-kneed in his front yard holding a quarter chicken by the end of the drumstick.
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This generation fed on the advertisement-ridden local paper, thick as a book, which was tossed daily on to their front yards .
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And the minute she saw the dress and shoes sitting in the front yard , she broke water.
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But camped out in their front yard , so to speak, we suddenly felt very exposed.
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The third woman went to pull a weed in her front yard and a rattler bit her hand.
just
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David and Barbara Owen say the property is blighted by plans for a bypass just yards away.
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Police cordoned off and evacuated the area, which is just yards from the Brent Cross Shopping Centre.
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But she turned up safe and well at dawn when she walked into a mobile police station just yards away.
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A colleague stumbled on the couple romping in a first-floor office just yards from the council chamber.
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With the railway built just yards north of the crossroads, this corner soon became a popular request stop.
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Her attacker was staying with his parents just yards from her house, Liverpool Crown Court was told.
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Simon Julian, 28, was found just yards from Kensington Palace on Monday night.
only
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At the end of the tunnel, only yards away, was a little cell-like room.
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Once again, Charlie scrambled up and out of the trench only yards behind.
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The beach is only yards away, across the road, or through the underpass.
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Without hesitation he started to walk towards them, despite the searing heat of the flames now only yards off.
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The nannies were only yards away.
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They had no gardens but only tiny yards to the rear.
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We were only about a yard from the fairway, but we had trouble finding the ball.
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He lives only yards from the store and fears there may be more.
small
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Within moments the house and its small yard became crammed with inquisitive children.
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The small yard is fenced and its grass is patchy.
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The ceaseless deluge had turned the small front yard of the cottage into a swamp.
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Horses kept in small yards by themselves develop repetitive patterns of abnormal behaviour, such as whirling in circles and chasing their tails.
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Each pair of houses shared a front door, staircase and a passageway which led to the small rear yard .
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Boat building, mainly for yachts and motor launches, is done in many small yards .
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She entered the kitchen from the back gate closing the door on the small yard with a click of finality.
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Coupled to a small training yard , such a centre could provide the chance to prove academic principles in practice.
square
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A few varieties of supple-stemmed rambler are just as suitable for this purpose, covering many square yards once they become established.
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It seemed that there was not a square yard on the field free from fire.
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Sadler's used 1,900 square yards - made more impervious to the gas by an inner coat of rubber.
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I found where they had bedded down as a group, within about 50 square yards .
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You can buy them in boxes of four to cover an area of a square yard .
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The cemetery, which contains graves of men, women and children, covers about 15,000 square yards .
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A carpet costing around £33 per square yard may seem an unromantic substitute for a honeymoon.
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All you have to do is give up a few square yards of lawn space.
■ NOUN
sale
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Volunteers called for extra copies, carried them door to door, offered them at yard sales .
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Start planning an April yard sale .
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Mostly culls, at the sullen, anxious, over-priced yard sales we seem always to be planning but rarely holding.
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Oh, and she likes the yard sales all over the Forks.
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About three years ago I came across his plastic incarnation at a yard sale for a quarter.
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That turned him into a serious collector, scouting yard sales , attics, flea markets, estate auctions and used bookstores.
school
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Prentice got out of his Escort and locked it, then pointed to the gates of the school yard .
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C., recently threw a football past their school yard fence and into the street.
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The desire to capture had driven him like a wild man through the school yard , up the sidewalk, everywhere.
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Every day the Civil War got replayed in the school yard , and I kept losing.
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He said there was a package in the school yard for you - from your wife.
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Beyond the window, school yard and playing fields were filled with children on mid-morning break.
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This afternoon pupils will be entertained in the school yard .
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The school yard was very small.
timber
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Eventually I got fed up with waiting and went round to the timber yard .
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They also visit stone quarries, timber yards and specialist conservation studios and workshops.
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Plain and simple mouldings can be bought at most timber yards and home decorating shops.
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Then the conifers would have long since given up their job as nurses to the beeches and ended in a timber yard .
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Along the length of the railway line were timber yards , rope works, maltings and an iron foundry.
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There are many timber yards and a chemical industry using the imported oil.
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We bought timber from a timber yard and went to another two builders' merchants for some specialised bits.
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The first thing we saw was a large articulated lorry being loaded up in the timber yard .
■ VERB
cross
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She was crossing the yard up to the mountain.
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Now, on a bright September morning, the sun shone warmly on the terrible little group that crossed the prison yard .
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They crossed the yard and reached the kitchen door.
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I watched as they crossed the yard and entered an office adjoining, but separate from, Donald's.
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He went through and crossed the yard .
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Whoever was crossing the yard toward the school might see her too.
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As he crossed the yard , he glanced round the skyline and was relieved to see no sign of cloud.
run
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Normally, the pilot would have been on board before the ship ran aground 100 yards off the Tower of Hercules navigation light.
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He runs the 40-yard dash in 4.43 seconds.
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She ran the last few yards and was breathing heavily, but more out of anxiety than exhaustion.
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Now Whitney gave him new orders: find some one to run the Washington yard .
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They waited for the space of one Hail Mary, then ran out into the yard to call for Victorine.
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Simon ran into the yard and threw his baby tree as far as he could.
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The duel carriageway A417 will run just 200 yards from their garden.
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Petrified, the other boy dropped the weapon and ran out of the yard in the suburban neighborhood.
stand
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He stood back, a yard away.
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Alma was standing ramrod in the yard when the truck pulled up with Lucky on a bed of straw.
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He stood less than a yard from his victim, but she did not look up.
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The newly painted double doors stood open to the yard , where a timber-lorry was being unloaded.
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There were three major ones, standing within a few hundred yards of each other.
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Benjamin was standing a few yards away from the church, the ladder still in his hand.
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The wall stood twenty yards back from the road.
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To the left of him, standing about ten yards from the small crowd around the graveside, was a man.
stop
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I walked as in a nightmare, aware of nothing but the few yards of tarmac ahead and stopping every few yards.
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She had to stop a few yards later, sobbing for breath.
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Must have stopped every ten yards between junctions seventeen and eighteen.
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A white Range Rover with blue markings jolted up the track to stop ten yards from the broken door.
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Though it was quieter now, Ruth walked forward with trepidation, stopping a few yards short of it.
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I stopped about twenty yards away from the shed, appalled at the scene of utter desolation and neglect.
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The Cavalier has stopped twenty yards behind us on the road.
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Urquhart stopped and turned a few yards ahead of her.
walk
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There was no foreman to watch over him and he could please himself when he made his walk around the yard .
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But after walking for about fifty yards we came to another thinner wall of barbed wire with a gate in it.
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I saw him with Charlie Northrup up in the mountains, and they were talking together and walking around the front yard .
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Thanking Stanley, who said he was very welcome, Mungo walked out to the yard , watched by Jos.
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They began to bark as she walked the few yards to his front door.
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Here the footpath ended so we had to walk for a few hundred yards along a stretch of country road.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
give sb an inch and they'll take a yard/mile
ready/fit for the knacker's yard
the whole nine yards
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We're going to hike there, sleep outside, cook our food on the campfire - the whole nine yards.
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The white dresses, the long white gloves, the limos, the whole nine yards.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a prison exercise yard
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The ball landed in the neighbors' yard .
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The ship will be moved to the Philadelphia Naval Yard next year.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A yard that went on for ever.
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He punted the few yards to the shore.
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He was framed in a window less than a yard away.
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I saw nothing of the scenery; visibility was down to fifty yards.
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Lost Jaguar and butterflies Next door, Steve Fischer waded through his front yard .
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People who know her say she has a sense of the world beyond her own sizable back yard .
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Ten yards to go and he heard the driver of the Discovery accelerate away from the roadblock.
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This week Woosnam was averaging 288 yards with his driver, Parry 257.