"step" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

step verbo

step + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 9
step up one's efforts • step up one's attacks • step up one's campaign • step up pressure • step up one's activities • ...
verbo + step
Kolokacji: 16
forced to step • try to step • want to step • ask to step • avoid stepping • ...
step + preposición
Kolokacji: 76
step up • step down • step out • step into • step over • step onto • step through • step toward • step around • step across • step behind • ...
step + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 118
step forward • step aside • step inside • step away • step outside • step closer • step carefully • step backward • step quickly • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 31
(1) forward, ahead, forwards
Kolokacji: 3
(2) aside, apart
Kolokacji: 2
(3) inside, outside, outdoors
Kolokacji: 3
(4) away, forth
Kolokacji: 2
(6) backward, backwards
Kolokacji: 2
2. step backwards = krok do tyłu step backwards
  • I couldn't step backwards for fear of falling, anyway his arms and weight made it impossible to move.
  • To step backwards into the limbo of the last five years.
  • Upon doing this, he stepped backwards off the roof to kill himself.
  • For a second or two they stared at each other; then she stepped backwards.
  • The man who had demanded my name stepped a pace backwards.
  • The girl stepped backwards, and she had a look on her face that Malcolm did not like very much.
  • He stepped backwards, ready for anything that Olive could do.
  • Democratic elections sometimes have as their results countries and societies stepping backwards.
  • So he stopped dead and stepped backwards into the shadows.
  • There was no space for her to step backwards; she couldn't very well push him aside.
(11) finally, eventually
Kolokacji: 2
(12) simply, merely
Kolokacji: 2
(16) briskly, smartly
Kolokacji: 2
(18) straight, squarely
Kolokacji: 2
(19) silently, shortly
Kolokacji: 2
(20) hastily, hurriedly
Kolokacji: 2
(21) boldly, bravely
Kolokacji: 2
(23) reluctantly, hesitantly
Kolokacji: 2
(24) delicately, daintily
Kolokacji: 2
(26) nimbly, deftly
Kolokacji: 2
(28) confidently, timidly, shyly
Kolokacji: 3
(29) hard, smoothly, firmly
Kolokacji: 3
(30) nervously, uneasily
Kolokacji: 2
(31) purposefully, resolutely
Kolokacji: 2

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