"guard" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

guard verbo

guard + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 31
guard prisoners • guard the entrance • guard the door • guard one's secrets • guard one's back • ...
verbo + guard
Kolokacji: 6
assigned to guard • leave to guard • help guard • built to guard • stand guarding • ...
guard + preposición
Kolokacji: 19
guard against • guarded by • guard at • guard from • guard with • ...
guard + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 21
jealously guard • closely guarded • heavily guarded • well guarded • carefully guarded • ...
(2) heavily, lightly, somewhat
Kolokacji: 3
2. lightly guarded = lekko chronić lightly guarded
  • The monitoring center, on the edge of Baghdad, is lightly guarded.
  • Their fuel can be used to make crude nuclear bombs and is typically guarded lightly, if at all.
  • The park, however, was lightly guarded, and there they climbed the wall without many problems.
  • Further inspection showed the gate to be lightly guarded and inadequately defended.
  • The snowflakes moved, as they had before, to supply coverage to heavily attacked areas, leaving others more lightly guarded.
  • He should never have left the Lady Blue so lightly guarded!
  • You are only lightly guarded; you can shake them off.
  • Until this morning the airfield had been lightly guarded and accessible to the public.
  • Jessica's father, like most men in his position in the Province, was watched much of the time, kept an eye on, lightly guarded.
  • Strange that the ships should be guarded so lightly!
3. somewhat guarded = nieco chronić somewhat guarded
(3) well, poorly, strongly
Kolokacji: 3
(4) fiercely, extremely, highly
Kolokacji: 3

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