"private" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The royal court concluded that the fire marshal had used the soldier for his and his wife's private errands.
- Once or twice Ransom called to him, but the youth waved and vanished with a glimmer of his pole, intent on some private errand.
- They were mostly small parties of two to six, flitting across the country as swiftly and quietly as birds, intent on some private errand.
- Eve was on a private errand.
- It was like a city street, with people moving in both directions, all in a hurry, all bent on some private errand.
- To leave the Army threatened on two sides, and ride off on some private errand.
- And she used public employees to pursue private errands.
- But that, of course, is our private errand.
- "There will be no repercussions in respect of your going off on your private errand seeing Fedosov the elder," he said.
- "Our king has charged us with a private errand, and knowing it would not comfort you, I fear."
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