"phrase" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The figures swayed in the dimness, chanting in a dialect not altogether familiar to me; a monotonous wailing chant, with a single recurrent phrase: "Kamaina!
- The two Dudley brothers were on the closest personal terms and Ambrose said of Robert: "there is no man [that] knoweth his doings better than I myself", while Robert's recurrent phrase about Ambrose was: "him I love as myself".
- The lyric revolves around a recurrent phrase, "the days that changed the world," which refers to Mr. Robinson's long-dashed expectation that punk might spearhead a social revolution.
- The callsign for van Statten's personal helicopter is "Bad Wolf One", a recurrent phrase throughout the first series.
- His refrain was counterpointed throughout the evening by another recurrent phrase, "in the boom box of L.A.," which worked as a sort of bass figure in a polemic that had the sprawling form of an extended jazz-blues suite.
- It was the recurrent phrase in her thoughts.
- Sadly, there's a third one that is created by those who are unsure and that is when, on the conflictive moments, they use a recurrent phrase: It was you.
- Illicit relations with the enemy during war-time echo also in the recurrent phrase 'the languages fraternise behind their own façades'(55/449; variations: 53/447,123/517,148/542,154/548).
- He made out a recurrent phrase, however, which he recognized as a proper name: Bit-Yakin.
- I've come across the word 'limmer' before - it is, or has been, a dialect word in NE England and I think other parts of the country, meaning basically 'rascal', or 'rascally': for example, 'limmer thieves' is a recurrent phrase in a Co.
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