"promise" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

promise verbo

promise + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 75
promise things • promise support • promise changes • promise freedom • promise reform • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 18
(1) thing, money
Kolokacji: 2
(4) freedom, immunity, amnesty
Kolokacji: 3
(8) election, voter, anonymity
Kolokacji: 3
(11) gift, leniency, donation
Kolokacji: 3
(12) opportunity, hearing
Kolokacji: 2
(13) victory, success, prosperity
Kolokacji: 3
(14) investor, profit
Kolokacji: 2
(15) riches, wealth
Kolokacji: 2
(16) autonomy, independence
Kolokacji: 2
(17) paradise, immortality
Kolokacji: 2
(18) revelation, concession
Kolokacji: 2
1. promise concessions = ustępstwa obietnicy promise concessions
2. promise revelations = ujawnienia obietnicy promise revelations
  • The film producer, whose lawyers have promised revelations about the affair, has refused to comment.
  • Zinda is left contemplating the idea to follow him, as he promises revelations on her past.
  • He was too feeble to be worried with questions now, but she promised herself most interesting revelations when she got him safe at home; for the 'firebrand' was her most interesting boy.
  • I wanted to talk to Angela Ferryman, because her message on my answering machine had seemed to promise revelations.
  • He knew that the automatic would not fire while he promised revelations.
  • Mr. Kean promises major revelations in testimony next month: "This was not something that had to happen."
  • But in the midst of so much ante-raising, there's something worse than telling too much: the book that promises big revelations but turns out to be a bore.
  • I turn in the whisky story, with a teaser paragraph at the end promising further revelations concerning arm-twisting moves being made by the big corporate booze-barons to silence the brave little whisky wizards.
  • Scrawled in a clumsy hand, it simply promised new revelations that would be as startling as those previously given.
  • He billed the show as "the grand opening services" of his new religion and promised "startling spiritual, sexual and esthetic revelations."
verbo + promise
Kolokacji: 3
seem to promise • ask to promise • want to promise
promise + preposición
Kolokacji: 22
promise by • promise to • promise for • promise in • promise on • ...
promise + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 22
repeatedly promised • once promise • originally promised • solemnly promise • promise faithfully • ...

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