verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
attend a ceremony
▪ I attended the ceremony at the cathedral.
attend (a) collegeformal:
▪ He was the first person in his family to attend college.
attend a courseformal (= take part in a course)
▪ You’ll have to attend a course on how to deal with customers on the phone.
attend a rally
▪ About 200 people braved the weather to attend the rally.
attend a reception
▪ We have to attend a reception at the Embassy.
attend (a) schoolformal (= go to a school)
▪ Some of the children had not attended school very regularly before.
attend a sessionformal
▪ Some doctors require patients to attend counselling sessions.
attend class (=go to classes regularly)
▪ You can’t pass your exams if you don’t attend class.
attended...funeral
▪ Hundreds of mourners attended the funeral of the two boys.
attended...seminar
▪ Publishers and writers from 13 countries attended the seminar.
go to/attend a class
▪ I’ve got to go to a science class now.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
also
▪ However, I also attended the village evening school, which was organized by an ancient relation of Mr Wopsle's.
▪ Many individuals also attend training and educational programs sponsored by industry associations, often in collaboration with postsecondary institutions.
▪ Dentists from Barnard Castle and Stockton will also attend.
▪ D., said at a news conference also attended by Sens.
▪ Other senior officials also attended the summit.
▪ Nichols' brother, James, also attended the proceedings, which continue Wednesday.
▪ For members of the International Rights Centre who are also attending the symposium, the cost is £50.
▪ Burke also attended the board meeting, but made no public comment.
by
▪ The Business Skills Seminars for small businesses were attended by over 2,300 people during the year.
▪ And so his victory parade was attended by almost nobody but himself.
▪ An enjoyable party attended by only 18 children.
▪ Archbishop Winning celebrated the Ash Wednesday Mass attended by about 200 students.
▪ A successful evening attended by over eighty children.
to
▪ Animals need to attend to and learn about a stimulus only when its implications for the future are uncertain.
▪ You have and duties to attend to before you can even think about putting your tootsies up.
▪ She had an emergency patient to attend to.
▪ The consequence of this for the curriculum must be that within all subject areas both aspects must be attended to.
▪ Luckily the weather was so awful that nothing was flying, so there was only routine work to attend to.
▪ After that there were cheques to be attended to and put aside to await Silas's signature.
▪ After the final curtain he went to the local hospital to have the wound attended to.
▪ But the court has other business besides Maastricht to attend to.
■ NOUN
ceremony
▪ Edward's parents sent their condolences, attended the ceremony at chapel and graveside, and Mrs Thomas visited the widow.
▪ The former president, now 90 and stricken with Alzheimer's disease, also won't attend the ceremony.
▪ Missing from the picture is Werner Reichert who was unable to attend the ceremony.
▪ Vice President Al Gore even attended a ground-breaking ceremony in June of 1994.
▪ But few who attended today's ceremonies were in any doubt they were witnessing the end of an era.
▪ Had she insisted on the couple marrying in the village church she would have been obliged to attend the ceremony.
▪ President Herrera and his cabinet attended the ceremony.
child
▪ He has three children, two attending public schools and one in a home school program.
▪ It was not confined to Methodists, but was for all children who wished to attend.
▪ Elton Gallegly, R-Calif., that would have barred children from attending public schools if they are in the country illegally.
▪ Mr Bush announced that Mrs Black had agreed to help at the school as there would be an extra seventy children attending.
▪ We want to choose which school our children will attend.
▪ He stressed the normality of the children who attended it.
▪ As in the previous conservation problems, the preoperational child typically does not attend to all aspects of transformation that she sees.
church
▪ Sometimes they had to attend the fashionable church in Mayfair where Canon Broome's brother-in-law was rector.
▪ The people who attend Pentecostal churches tend to be from the same population that plays the lottery.
▪ What about those who would like to attend church but through disability or remoteness are unable to do so?
▪ He had attended church, had a family, helped in the underground railroad, fought in the Civil War.
▪ Those wishing to attend church services also have to make their way to Kirkburn.
▪ He succumbs to the temptation of attending church services at Lowick, where Casaubon cuts him irretrievably.
▪ Only about 7 % of locals regularly attend church.
▪ Once, while attending church, I saw the priest snoring while the lector read from the Bible.
class
▪ In practice, this meant that for six years he refused to take classes, attend seminars, or write a dissertation.
▪ It would be well to describe an actual class I attended in Vienna.
▪ It is possible for teachers and/or class members to attend individual sessions which are taken by different people each week.
▪ Following this ritual, she was separated from Annabel while waiting for it to be decided which class she would attend first.
▪ Now we can quantify this: 0.482 more service class than working class children attend these schools.
▪ If you have any of your class members attending please let them know that this payment is now due.
clinic
▪ She did in fact attend clinic eventually, and this allowed a full discussion of the situation.
▪ Most think anyone who wants to buy a gun should have to attend a clinic on proper use.
▪ Results - New cases of gonorrhoea among men attending genitourinary medicine clinics increased by 7.7% in 1989 and by 4.2% in 1990.
▪ She subsequently attended the genetic counselling clinic, and was very anxious about the situation.
▪ For this investigation the patient must attend the clinic in the early morning having held his urine all night.
▪ Patients - 181 patients attending hospital outpatient clinics.
▪ The man was given a 2 year probation order on condition he attends a clinic.
college
▪ Perhaps they had attended the same college: the college whose colours were cerise and silver.
▪ He attended a technical college for engineering studies before moving to Los Angeles in 1982.
▪ In 1902 he attended staff college, and was posted in 1903 to the staff of the Somaliland field forces.
▪ In the 15 previous years, two residents of Kenilworth-Parkside had attended college.
▪ Almost 2. 5 million young people were attending college.
▪ In essence he insists that he has a right to attend a college in his home community.
▪ It would mark the first time in at least 15 years that the cost of attending public colleges in Massachusetts has decreased.
conference
▪ The conferences was attended by more than 300 delegates from most of the agency's 113 member states.
▪ D., said at a news conference also attended by Sens.
▪ I went to national and regional conferences and attended all sorts of local workshops.
▪ Scene: On the airplane home, you wrote a short report discussing the conference you just attended.
▪ How many courses or conferences have you attended or even seen advertised that mention children in their titles?
▪ The conference, attended by 189 countries, opened on Monday and will run until July 20.
▪ The Edinburgh conference was attended by media practitioners, theologians and teachers.
course
▪ Spouses may be encouraged to attend language courses at colleges of further education.
▪ The production manager attends a two-week training course in Atlanta on leading work-unit teams.
▪ You may also have the opportunity to attend a course.
▪ The number of couples attending pre-marriage courses was 31.
▪ Over the past few months seven candidates have attended different courses.
▪ A prospectus was drawn up and students with suitable qualifications were invited to attend the first course in 1977.
▪ Anyone who is interested in attending either of these courses should contact the Medau Office at Epsom.
▪ A further 150 employees attended external training courses during the year.
day
▪ Field Chairs advise individual enquirers and talk to all those prospective entrants to their fields who attend a visit day.
▪ The new Cafod worker, who will be based in the Dioceses of Lancaster and Salford, will attend both days.
▪ Almost the same number are Bengali children of middle-class families, who attend the day school.
▪ At the time we saw her, Jean was living in a hostel in North London and attending a psychiatric day centre.
▪ In addition to the lectures, part 11 participants attend two days of conferences related to archaeology and undertake a short practical survey project.
▪ You can attend on either day.
dinner
▪ Raducanu attended the official dinner that followed the international but then left his team-mates.
▪ Only Forbes, Hostettler, Klug and Wolf had been scheduled to attend the dinner.
▪ Brian was attending a medical dinner that night, so it was left to Celia to entertain the pair alone.
▪ We attended a dinner at Le Mandrie.
▪ Over 100 guests attended his retiral dinner at the Normandy Hotel, Renfrew.
▪ Nearly 1, 400 Republicans attended a state committee dinner last February.
▪ Despite their early start, they still attended the dinner laid on by the Flanders rugby authorities.
▪ He would attend the dinner and the theatre.
event
▪ The move will double the number of people who can attend this popular event, from 4000 to 8000.
▪ Live theater drew 9 percent, nearly double the 5 percent who attended sporting events.
▪ Two of the other leading political candidates have been asked to attend the event.
▪ Instead Dole will attend various events in Tennessee and campaign with former Gov.
▪ Indeed, I wondered if we had attended the same event.
▪ Westbrook employees, nearly half of whom are residents, must attend after-hours events in the projects.
▪ The comments and suggestions made by college staff attending these events have proved invaluable in framing the proposals described in these papers.
▪ A Los Angeles Times reporter attended the event after purchasing a $ 42 ticket made available when a reservation was canceled.
funeral
▪ Her family attended her funeral today.
▪ I did not attend the funeral.
▪ Many villagers attended his funeral, with his team mates in football gear as pall bearers.
▪ MacDonald was attending the funeral of an aunt in Sussex.
▪ One weekend his parents went away to attend a funeral and he arranged to stay at Adam's house.
▪ She descended into hell to attend the funeral of the raging bull of heaven, her instrument for terrorizing the earth.
▪ Besides, it is highly unlikely that a murderer would attend his victim's funeral.
▪ We attended a funeral in Richmond on the first day of school a year ago.
lecture
▪ To get the most out of lectures, it pays to attend regularly.
▪ I attended all my lectures and got the best grades.
▪ I've been attending all the lectures that deal with building up a practice.
▪ Some time ago I attended a lecture on psychotherapy for people who have a catastrophic illness.
▪ Since he was unable to attend, the lecture he had prepared was read out to the 1,000 participants on December 14.
▪ A group of them even inVited one of the prominent leftist student spokesmen to attend the lectures and help direct the questioning.
▪ Wittgenstein did nothing to soften the difficulties, even discouraging his own students from attending Waismann's lectures.
▪ The mechanics lost out, and the place became a research institute funded by subscribers who attended lectures.
meeting
▪ There were so many evening meetings to attend ... Jean never questioned where her public-spirited husband was really going.
▪ At the meetings I attended there were never more than 20 local residents present, most of them women.
▪ One of the frequent mass meetings attended by workers was taking place.
▪ Picton-Howell's main mission in life was to record faithfully the minutes of the many meetings she attended.
▪ These meetings were well attended and were known as conventicles.
▪ She had shopping to get, a visit to make, a meeting to attend.
member
▪ My philosophy being that members who attended the meetings or functions which I attended will know I was there.
▪ The party members attending the session here were mostly middle-aged or elderly California residents.
▪ Only close family members attended the service, some of whom say that his body showed signs of torture.
▪ Moores was openly critical of task force members who did not attend.
▪ Over 50 attended the function, but what was so encouraging was the quality of the prospective members that attended.
▪ Most of the Republican members have not been attending the committee meetings.
▪ The take-up has been disappointing in some respects, with the most highly motivated members attending several courses.
▪ Subsequently 6 or 8 members attended each meeting.
party
▪ If attending a wedding or party of close friends, you should have the time of your life.
▪ She said she attended a party with him earlier in the evening and then went to a nightclub with him.
▪ He had spent the last twenty years attending the Party conference, four days of gin and oratory.
▪ About 500 people will attend a private party in the room on the eve of the Super Bowl.
▪ Around 50 retired employees attended the party and were treated to a three course dinner served up by committee volunteers.
▪ The couple were spotted doing a raunchy snake dance in a nightclub after Peta attended a riotous party he threw.
patient
▪ After discharge, patients should attend weekly outpatient appointments, moving to fortnightly or monthly attendances as appropriate.
▪ Clearly it is good news for the people of Rugby and especially for patients attending St. Cross hospital.
▪ Of 225 new patients attending our adolescent gynaecology clinic in 1992, 167 presented with menstrual disturbances.
▪ For this investigation the patient must attend the clinic in the early morning having held his urine all night.
▪ Patients - 181 patients attending hospital outpatient clinics.
▪ If it transpires that the patient has not yet attended the general practitioner for this diabetic review one reminder prompt is sent.
▪ This difference in prescribing between rural and urban areas was found almost exclusively in patients not attending a hospital diabetic clinic.
people
▪ A further 70,000 people attended a candle-lit ceremony on June 4.
▪ In 1971, for a 10-day crusade in Oakland, about 360, 000 people attended.
▪ He suggested a shuttle service may be suitable for people wishing to attend at Marton.
▪ The blast forced the evacuation of hotel workers and guests, including 450 people attending an oil and gas conference.
▪ Twenty-four people attended including and from the Albion Maltings.
▪ More than a thousand people attended the reception at the house on Park Lane that the Phippses had taken for the season.
▪ In all about 90 people attended.
▪ Almost 2. 5 million young people were attending college.
rally
▪ Most of those attending the rally Sunday, however, were Phoenix-area veterans and friends.
▪ New members for 1988 are offered a free voucher to attend a Rally of their own choosing.
▪ They have also been invited to attend a rally to commemorate the 22 de Enero.
▪ It was from here, in 1959, that she effectively attended an Oswald Mosley rally.
▪ Its supporters may be nervous about attending its rallies, and the movement itself is divided.
▪ Feminists threw their weight behind Mrs Killea's campaign, and hundreds of students attended a rally in support of abortion rights.
▪ He was attending a Liberal rally in the city.
school
▪ About one-eighth of secondary pupils in Northern Ireland attend grammar secondary schools, the remainder attending secondary intermediate schools.
▪ They were refused admission to a public school attended by white children solely because of their race....
▪ The money goes to schools their children never attend, social services they do not need, roads they never use.
▪ Poor children actually may be subsidizing the middle class in terms of effective per-pupil expenditures in schools that they mutually attend.
▪ She also does two afternoons' voluntary work at the school which her children attend.
▪ We want to choose which school our children will attend.
seminar
▪ In practice, this meant that for six years he refused to take classes, attend seminars, or write a dissertation.
▪ Participants will also attend seminars to discuss the collections.
▪ A nurse introduced Dave to our plan and invited him to attend a company seminar.
▪ Fifteen writers and publishers from 13 Third World countries attended the seminar.
▪ A huge and devoted group of followers pay $ 39 a head to attend her motivational hotel seminars.
▪ The course is taught partly in College, where students attend lectures, seminars workshops and tutorials, and partly in schools.
▪ As part of his new job, Lipson says he plans to attend a Blue Cross seminar a day.
service
▪ Relatively few people attend services in Moscow's 500 churches, but there have been millions of baptisms each year since 1991.
▪ On the first Sunday in May, he attended services at Trinity Church, walking the six blocks to and fro.
▪ The money goes to schools their children never attend, social services they do not need, roads they never use.
▪ No high-profile celebrities attended the service.
▪ Only close family members attended the service, some of whom say that his body showed signs of torture.
▪ Within the United States alone I attended services in 263 seven different languages.
▪ Nearly everyone in town would be attending at least one service there.
▪ Hathaway and her two surviving children attended the service.
session
▪ All freshmen who attend optional orientation sessions receive information on date rape.
▪ They are introduced to the day centre and attend regular training sessions organised by the project and other outside agencies.
▪ It was nevertheless suspended for three years, the brothers forced to attend sensitivity-training sessions.
▪ It is possible for teachers and/or class members to attend individual sessions which are taken by different people each week.
▪ The meetings ran for seventeen days, and thousands of enthusiastic guests lined up every evening to attend the open sessions.
▪ The new student will be expected to train daily at his home and attend a club training session at least twice a week.
▪ Managers and supervisors applauded the new approach and eagerly attended the financial training sessions.
student
▪ How many students attended the Marischal College?
▪ Most defaults involve students who attend for-profit trade schools.
▪ At the First Municipal girls' school, students attend crammers for mathematics and science.
▪ In the education department, more than 10, 000 students attended nine school performances.
▪ Think of a medical student attending a course in the X-ray diagnosis of pulmonary diseases.
▪ The best students, who attended one of the few selective schools, received the equivalent of a high-quality prep school education.
▪ The course is taught partly in College, where students attend lectures, seminars workshops and tutorials, and partly in schools.
▪ A group of them even inVited one of the prominent leftist student spokesmen to attend the lectures and help direct the questioning.
summit
▪ But Simmons emailed executives and told them not to attend Muhammad's summit, and refused to invite him to his own.
▪ Yeltsin had decided not to attend the summit because of critical July 3 elections.
▪ Other senior officials also attended the summit.
▪ Mr Barak said he would attend a summit hosted by the United States, if one were called.
university
▪ For this purpose it was not necessary for me to stay on at school after I was sixteen and attend university.
▪ After months in hospital he went on to attend Ohio State University.
▪ Nor has it done anything to upgrade the education of those who do not attend universities.
▪ Would you like to attend the university?
▪ Self-funding students attending the University for the full session are permitted to pay their fees in termly instalments.
woman
▪ More importantly, the report caused needless anxiety to all the women who have attended the centre.
▪ They claimed that the report showed that women who attended Bristol were twice as likely to die as women who did not.
▪ Subjects - Of 542 women attending the clinic for artificial insemination for the first time, 500 women were eligible for study.
▪ Forty percent of the women attending a Dow-Stoker Returners programme decide to come back to work because of a trauma.
▪ Several of these women attended our neighbourhood project, which is run by local people.
▪ The chief and his embassy sent the three women to help Ariel attend Sycorax.
■ VERB
expect
▪ Participants from over 35 countries are expected to attend.
▪ All of them were expected to attend a mass for his soul.
▪ Some 10,000 participants are expected to attend the two-week meeting.
▪ This time, Gretzky himself is expected to attend.
▪ All 431, including the 73 partners, will be expected to attend a training day at one of the offices.
▪ Bill managed our farm, and when Isaac died, of course we were expected to attend the funeral.
▪ They were expected to attend the urban celebrations of the great festivals and took part in the pageantry and the festivities.
▪ Members of both families are expected to attend the forum.
invite
▪ The seminars are widely publicised beforehand, and print and broadcast journalists are invited to attend.
▪ I invite Chris to attend any type of public forum where Bucky performs.
▪ Lord Justice Scott can only invite witnesses to attend.
▪ A nurse introduced Dave to our plan and invited him to attend a company seminar.
▪ A prospectus was drawn up and students with suitable qualifications were invited to attend the first course in 1977.
▪ Neighboring residents also will be invited to attend the meetings.
▪ Britain, in fact, had been explicitly invited to attend the foreign ministers' meeting in Messina.
▪ They have also been invited to attend a rally to commemorate the 22 de Enero.
refuse
▪ Aoun refused to attend, and his troops shelled the Patriarch's palace hours before the meeting.
▪ A few days later he received a summons to interrogation by one of these officers, which he refused to attend.
▪ If the debtor refuses to attend for oral examination he is liable to be committed to prison for contempt of court.
▪ He therefore refused to attend or to allow his wife to.
▪ Should she confess all and refuse to attend at Mrs Tiverton's morning do?
require
▪ The summons requires the person to attend the court to explain to the magistrate why the sum has not been paid.
▪ A child who lives in a state that requires school attendance must attend some acceptable school during the years of compulsory education.
▪ A formal notice requiring you to attend here for such an interview will be delivered to you separately from this letter.
▪ Some time soon there will be a staff meeting you are required to attend.
▪ All candidates are required to attend for interview and practical tests at some mutually convenient time.
▪ A member from the panel of parents of school age will be required to attend each of the meetings.
▪ Jury Service Leave of absence with pay is granted to all employees who are required to attend jury service.
▪ The inhabitants were required not only to attend executions but to throw stones at the corpses.
wish
▪ It was not confined to Methodists, but was for all children who wished to attend.
▪ All are voluntary groups, and many of the meetings are open to all who wish to attend.
▪ He suggested a shuttle service may be suitable for people wishing to attend at Marton.
▪ I shall, if you wish, attend to your father.
▪ The duke does not care whether you wish to attend or not - he orders it.
▪ At the other end of the scale there were no wives in Speyside who had either attended or wished to attend.
▪ If your Committee wishes a representative to attend this meeting, please let me know.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ After attending church, the family would go home for dinner.
▪ Both children attend St. Joan Church
▪ Employees are expected and required to attend team meetings.
▪ First-year students receive all the financial aid needed in order to attend.
▪ Karl attended college after military service.
▪ More than 1000 people attended the conference.
▪ Potential buyers were invited to attend.
▪ Several people were unable to attend because of the storm.
▪ Some of the most glittering celebrities in the country are expected to attend.
▪ the attending physician
▪ The Duchess of York attended the charity reception, along with her two daughters.
▪ Uncertainty attends the future of the industry.
▪ Will you be attending the conference?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ All Nutcrackered out, you have no intention of attending one more holiday spectacular show.
▪ Among those attending the cremation ceremony in Vientiane on Jan. 28 were President Souphanouvong, making a rare public appearance.
▪ Edward's parents sent their condolences, attended the ceremony at chapel and graveside, and Mrs Thomas visited the widow.
▪ I invite Chris to attend any type of public forum where Bucky performs.
▪ Since 1997, participating countries have been attending annual meetings to decide on the rules for implementing Kyoto.
▪ The churches were open, and some of the officers and soldiers attended service....
▪ When he was discharged from the hospital, he continued to attend for rehabilitation treatment as an out-patient.
▪ When the matter came up for hearing, Bradley attended.