"promise" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

promise sustantivo

sustantivo + promise
Kolokacji: 7
campaign promise • election promise • Government promise • promise of life • Scout Promise • ...
promise + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 3
Promise Keeper • Promise Ring • Promise Land
promise + verbo
Kolokacji: 15
promise makes • promise comes • promise keeps • promise proves • promise seems • ...
verbo + promise
Kolokacji: 40
show promise • hold promise • make promises • give promise • keep one's promise • break one's promise • fulfil one's promise • ...
adjetivo + promise
Kolokacji: 89
great promise • broken promise • early promise • empty promise • false promise • vague promise • solemn promise • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 26
(2) broken, contractual, glowing
Kolokacji: 3
(4) empty, hollow
Kolokacji: 2
(6) vague, faint
Kolokacji: 2
(7) solemn, real
Kolokacji: 2
(9) similar, verbal, oral
Kolokacji: 3
(11) bright, rosy
Kolokacji: 2
1. specific promise = dokładna obietnica specific promise
2. exceptional promise = wyjątkowa obietnica exceptional promise
3. particular promise = szczegółowa obietnica particular promise
4. extraordinary promise = niesłychana obietnica extraordinary promise
5. sweeping promise = zamiatając obietnicę sweeping promise
  • It was a campaign of sweeping promises: sweeping and explicit.
  • But perhaps his most sweeping promise was to "end the I.R.S. as we know it."
  • That was a rather sweeping promise, after all.
  • She gasped, amazed that a near stranger would make such a sweeping promise when he scarcely knew her.
  • Always ready for a sound bite, he gave bombastic interviews, cheekily delivering bold statements and sweeping promises.
  • It was a night in which there were a few sweeping promises.
  • The most sweeping promises came from China.
  • Then he turned to the economy, made sweeping promises, and provided few details.
  • Mr. Bush, while offering no such sweeping promise, does propose a federal government reading program, based upon successes he has had in Texas.
  • Unscrupulous recruiting agents siphon off their wages, they say, and make sweeping promises about jobs that prove false.
(14) extravagant, lavish
Kolokacji: 2
(16) electoral, pre-election, major
Kolokacji: 3
(17) bold, rash
Kolokacji: 2
(18) mere, simple
Kolokacji: 2
(19) firm, long-standing
Kolokacji: 2
(20) sweet, tantalizing, public
Kolokacji: 3
(21) utopian, official
Kolokacji: 2
(22) long-term, longstanding
Kolokacji: 2
(24) sensual, erotic, seductive
Kolokacji: 3
(25) divine, sacred
Kolokacji: 2
(26) conditional, unconditional
Kolokacji: 2
preposición + promise
Kolokacji: 19
despite promises • of promise • on one's promise • to one's promise • in one's promise • ...

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