"seek" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

seek verbo

seek + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 552
seek advice • seek help • seek refuge • seek re-election • seek comment • seek treatment • seek support • seek revenge • ...
verbo + seek
Kolokacji: 50
begin seeking • come seeking • disregard seeking • cast seek • lead to seek • plan to seek • continue to seek • forced to seek • ...
seek + preposición
Kolokacji: 45
seek out • sought after • seek by • seek through • seek for • ...
seek + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 95
actively seek • unsuccessfully seek • desperately seek • long sought • highly sought • eagerly sought • initially seek • originally seek • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 28
(2) unsuccessfully, successfully
Kolokacji: 2
(3) desperately, urgently
Kolokacji: 2
(4) eagerly, avidly
Kolokacji: 2
(6) constantly, continuously
Kolokacji: 2
(7) simply, merely
Kolokacji: 2
(9) deliberately, intentionally
Kolokacji: 2
(10) vainly, fruitlessly, futilely
Kolokacji: 3
(11) frequently, occasionally
Kolokacji: 2
(12) generally, specifically
Kolokacji: 2
(13) most, well
Kolokacji: 2
(14) eventually, finally
Kolokacji: 2
(15) quickly, promptly
Kolokacji: 2
(17) clearly, explicitly, publicly
Kolokacji: 3
(18) frantically, feverishly
Kolokacji: 2
(20) particularly, especially
Kolokacji: 2
(22) vigorously, tirelessly
Kolokacji: 2
(23) anxiously, quietly
Kolokacji: 2
(24) diligently, assiduously
Kolokacji: 2
(25) improperly, rightly
Kolokacji: 2
1. improperly seek = niestosownie szukać improperly seek
  • Mr. Commer is also accused of improperly seeking to hire a lawyer who provided him with free legal services during his campaign.
  • Judge Lance A. Ito also heard arguments about, but did not rule on, a defense request to sanction prosecutors for seeking improperly to learn the results of tests conducted by its expert witnesses.
  • We know that plaintiff improperly sought to taint the jury pool by directly corresponding with and soliciting funds from members of the jury pool.
  • The Chief Judge, Governor Cuomo asserts, improperly seeks that power for the judicial branch.
  • The New York Civil Liberties Union charged yesterday that a city education official improperly sought to restrict school employees from speaking with reporters, in violation of the employees' constitutional rights.
  • An office supply company has agreed to pay $400,000 to settle civil charges that it improperly sought a Board of Education contract.
  • The office found that he had billed the Government for private travel and improperly sought to escape paying taxes on his official limousine.
  • He is accused of improperly seeking to limit Federal safety inspections of an air charter company owned by a friend and political supporter in South Dakota.
  • Regarding the Commerce Clause, Justice David Souter asserted that the Court was improperly seeking to convert the judiciary into a "shield against the commerce power".
  • She may well have been improperly seeking news of impending events that might cause the value of her investment in his company to drop.
2. rightly seek = słusznie szukaj rightly seek
(26) formally, legitimately
Kolokacji: 2
(27) commonly, normally
Kolokacji: 2
(28) ostensibly, plainly
Kolokacji: 2

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