"desert" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

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desert + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 3
desert one's post • desert one's friends • desert one's wife
(1) post, friend, wife
Kolokacji: 3
  • No one was sure whether he had simply deserted his post.
  • I have never heard the truth about him, nor why he deserted his post, all those years ago.
  • The man had deserted his post with the opening of the attack.
  • I doubt if she could have been induced to desert her post, by anyone else.
  • The two helmsmen, for example, never desert their post, even though they know something is wrong.
  • Hasn't he said, more than once, that it was a mistake for Palin to desert her post?
  • I spun around to find that Charles had deserted his post at the bar.
  • They deserted their posts and slipped off to the bar.
  • He cannot be said to have deserted his post.
  • "We can not desert our post," one man said sadly.
2. desert one's friends = pustynia czyjś przyjaciele desert one's friends
3. desert one's wife = pustynia czyjś żona desert one's wife
desert + preposición
Kolokacji: 14
deserted at • desert in • deserted for • desert to • desert from • ...
desert + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 17
completely deserted • largely deserted • virtually deserted • practically deserted • entirely deserted • ...

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