"pair" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

pair sustantivo

sustantivo + pair
Kolokacji: 76
base pair • au pair • pair of scissors • pair of binoculars • pair of jeans • pair of socks • pair of sunglasses • pair of shoes • pair of shorts • ...
pair + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 9
pair skater • pairs event • pairs competition • pair bond • Pairs Championship • ...
pair + verbo
Kolokacji: 156
pair comes • pair makes • pair goes • pair meets • pair begins • pair takes • pair appears • pair stands • pair moves • pair wins • ...
verbo + pair
Kolokacji: 41
wear a pair • buy one pair • find a pair • include a pair • use a pair • ...
adjetivo + pair
Kolokacji: 122
new pair • extra pair • single pair • old pair • good pair • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 31
(7) unlikely, possible, virtual
Kolokacji: 3
(9) spare, minimal
Kolokacji: 2
1. odd pair = dziwna para odd pair
2. matching pair = pasując do pary matching pair
3. mismatched pair = niedobrana para mismatched pair
4. ill-matched pair = niedobrana para ill-matched pair
  • On through the night, through the swamp, the ill-matched pair made their way.
  • A lesser man might have displayed some curiosity about the ill-matched pair.
  • An ill-matched pair was ungainly, uncomfortable and in- efficient; they made heavy work of their joint task.
  • According to Pugh, Isabella and Edmund of Langley were 'an ill-matched pair'.
  • It was unthinkable that so ill-matched a pair should have gone together.
  • But they were certainly a strange and ill-matched pair, these two!
  • Their eyes glittered like those of a wolf pack and they craned forward expectantly to watch the ill-matched pair.
  • Every eye, apart from one ill-matched pair, was upon that dart.
  • Kate and Paul are an ill-matched pair.
  • Behind this ill-matched pair sat a host of courtiers and officers, all richly dressed.
(11) strange, unusual
Kolokacji: 2
(12) handsome, lovely, beautiful
Kolokacji: 3
(13) best, top, upper
Kolokacji: 3
(14) final, safe, certain
Kolokacji: 3
(17) outer, inner, posterior
Kolokacji: 3
(18) monogamous, married
Kolokacji: 2
(19) electron-hole, British
Kolokacji: 2
(20) original, special, particular
Kolokacji: 3
(21) front, forward
Kolokacji: 2
(23) Canadian, American
Kolokacji: 2
(24) famous, key, central
Kolokacji: 3
(26) male-female, female, dominant
Kolokacji: 3
(27) coxed
Kolokacji: 1
(29) simple, dry
Kolokacji: 2
(30) successive, sharp, Dirty, ugly
Kolokacji: 4
preposición + pair
Kolokacji: 18
in pairs • including a pair • with a pair • into a pair • on a pair • ...

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