"promise" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

promise verbo

promise + sustantivo

Kolokacji: 75

promise things • promise support • promise changes • promise freedom • promise reform • ...

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 • ...

Kolokacji: 3

Grup znaczeniowych: 4

Kolokacji: 16

(2) originally, initially

Kolokacji: 2

1. originally promised = początkowo obiecać originally promised

We were originally promised that the 1993 and 1994 figures could be taken at the same time.
John opens the case, and finds the $27,000 originally promised to him.
The Mayor has said the city would give the authority only $250 million by 1996, a quarter of what was originally promised.
The board had originally promised him such a release, according to those familiar with the negotiations.
A good half year later than you had originally promised, Vestor.
And many clinics do not remain open late or on weekends, as originally promised.
This is so far from what was originally promised.
They originally promised to have the station on the air in 2009 at an unspecified date.
Others, meanwhile, have grumbled that the county has received less money than originally promised.
Ironic considering that we never got all the homeland security money originally promised.

2. initially promise = początkowo obietnica initially promise

(3) publicly, personally

Kolokacji: 2

(4) explicitly, implicitly

Kolokacji: 2

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