I.verbCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a hurried/swift exit (=very quick)
▪ The family made a hurried exit, leaving many of their belongings behind.
a quick/hasty/hurried breakfast
▪ I grabbed a quick breakfast and ran to the bus stop.
make a quick/hurried etc exit
▪ I chatted to a few people, then made a quick exit.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
across
▪ She slipped out of the kitchen and hurried across to the stables to warn her friend.
▪ The sentries at the Yalu River checkpoint aimed their rifles at me instead of letting me hurry across.
▪ The two women hurried across to the main doors of the bank.
▪ Fifty-One Julie Craig heard the car pull up in the driveway and hurried across to the landing window-to look out.
along
▪ She hurries along the street, looking straight in front of her.
▪ She saw a figure hurrying along the pavement towards her, and realised that it was Marco.
▪ So she stopped off at her floor and hurried along to her room.
▪ She hurried along the path, past matching stone lions, up a few stairs to the imposing door.
▪ He hurried along the deserted early-morning pavements to the cinema.
▪ She jumped out of the car and hurried along the road, ignoring the colourful epithet that followed her.
▪ There's loads of shops with their lights on and traffic and people hurrying along the pavement.
▪ The next instant, dizzy with the excitement that possessed her, she was hurrying along the corridor towards his office.
away
▪ Donald said, what can one do, and we both pretended to shrug it off, to hurry away.
▪ Ministers emerged as tight-lipped as they had entered, shirking the cameras and hurrying away with serious expressions.
▪ The swans and the kingfisher watched the rest of the creatures hurrying away.
▪ Then recollecting himself, he nodded and hurried away.
▪ He turned and, summoning two of his fellows across, hurried away, whispering something to his companions.
▪ Then he hurried away towards the main square.
back
▪ I thanked him and hurried back to the hotel to rejoin the others.
▪ Aim was doubtful but sufficient to send the attackers hurrying back.
▪ She recovered, started off again, abruptly halted, wheeled, and hurried back through the doors behind the priest.
▪ The Prince was hurt in the fight, but got better and was hurried back to Ruritania.
▪ He takes a cursory look inside, then hurries back to the cabin.
▪ And besides, she told herself as she hurried back to the van, it was kinder to do it impersonally.
▪ Renie wiped his hands on his pants as he hurried back to his seat.
better
▪ There was no one about in the woods, so she'd better hurry back to the town as fast as she could.
down
▪ As they hurried down dusty, echoing staircases, Mungo began to wonder whether he would have enough money.
▪ John hurried down from parachute school, bringing his jump partner, Reeve Schley.
▪ As Grant hurried down the narrow concrete stairs, he felt the first warning stab of pain in his torn thigh muscle.
▪ She hurried down to the hall to see with her own eyes.
▪ Without hesitation, the sergeant swung round and hurried down the stairs as lightly as his own considerable bulk would allow.
▪ The bar crowd went after, hurrying down single-file and loud.
▪ John caught Sarah's arm and hustled her into the sitting room while Emily hurried down the stairs to join them.
▪ They all crossed the road and hurried down an open field, and then he jumped another fence.
downstairs
▪ Pull yourself together, she told herself, and hurried downstairs.
▪ I dumped a drawer or two, knocked over a lamp, and hurried downstairs.
▪ She hurried downstairs and saw Sam Morgan standing beside the van, smiling at her encouragingly.
▪ Once she'd finished in the bathroom, she hurried downstairs to collect her shawl.
▪ As he hurried downstairs he heard Buddie leave the house and Lady the bulldog barking excitedly in the yard.
▪ The dress really wasn't right, though. - Remembering the soufflé, she hurried downstairs.
▪ Anxious as she was about the neighbours, she couldn't help laughing as she hurried downstairs.
▪ She spun away from the mirror and hurried downstairs, forcing the curling tension aside.
forward
▪ They hurried forward, ignoring the planes.
▪ Trondur had hurried forward to fetch his biggest harpoon which he kept strapped across the bows.
▪ A sergeant hurried forward and clicked his heels.
home
▪ To this the tiger agreed, and taking the oxen with him for safety, the farmer hurried home.
▪ Angrily I buckled my trousers and hurried home to report the fraud to Aunt Pat.
▪ I've never had a better incentive to hurry home.
▪ The girls hurried home to tell their skeptical parents, who reluctantly provided the necessary dresses, gloves and veils.
▪ HAR-ROOMF! - and hurried home for his supper.
▪ I hurry home, do my homework, listen to the radio and read.
▪ I would have liked to have heard it again at the second service but Dad made us hurry home.
in
▪ At that moment, Andrew hurried in, slightly out of breath.
▪ They were waiting for the lift when they saw a man come hurrying in through the swing doors.
▪ He hurried in with her and the door was quickly shut again.
▪ About 3,500 Kurds came to Britain last May and June, before a visa requirement was hurried in to stem an influx.
▪ When he received the despairing note from Sien he hurried in to see her.
▪ In response to the two presses of the chair button Galvone hurried in to the living room.
off
▪ Do you have to hurry off, or can you stay and have dinner with me later?
▪ At that point, the solemn political discussion between Eleanor and young Joe ended abruptly, and Eleanor hurried off to bed.
▪ Stephen gave an absent-minded nod and hurried off to solve the next problem.
▪ Below her a gigantic cat head also dozes, while a furtive, headless male figure hurries off to the left.
▪ The way he shook me off, as soon as you left us, and hurried off down the river like that.
▪ I must find a shoemaker who would fix them on the spot, so l hurried off.
▪ Rosalind gladly let the police-sergeant take away the envelope and hurried off, singing, to telephone to Richard.
▪ Phil told him as they hurried off.
on
▪ Kicking aside a shattered bone, he hurried on.
▪ But the wind was favorable and they hurried on.
▪ He did not acknowledge Conroy, but hurried on down with that glazed look of some one already encased in their next entrance.
▪ He urged his colleagues to hurry on farther with him.
▪ He hurried on, sighting Clare and Underwood in the distance just turning off the main road up the hill.
▪ Looking for part-time work? Hurry on down to Fannie Mae.
▪ On no account should it be regarded as something through which the traveller passes quickly while hurrying on to the next destination.
▪ The first man cycled to the first mark and left the cycle and hurried on, on foot.
out
▪ With an odd sigh, and a funny little shake of his head, he turned and hurried out.
▪ The bathroom door opened and Renie hurried out, buckling his belt.
▪ Then she hurried out to the kitchen to tell them all the news.
▪ Papa was hurrying out of the main building with another suitcase.
▪ I heard Marcus putting food in my bowl and hurried out to the kitchen.
▪ Suzanne hurried out, bearing the school bus.
▪ He hurried out into the forecourt, and on.
▪ Calling to Lizzie to put the kettle oD, she hurried out to the hammock and spread herself there to wait.
over
▪ They rode slowly to avoid splashing, although the horses' instinct clearly was to hurry over.
▪ Dead on cue the runner hurries over to Eli to answer his question.
▪ The journey is a long one, but it is hurried over in a few words.
▪ Still in her wrap, she had hurried over to the drawer where the letters were kept.
▪ Three days' journey on into the desert are hurried over in a verse, and then the people run out of water.
▪ Retrieving his Browning he hurried over to where he had last seen the gunman.
▪ I hurry over in that direction.
please
▪ But please hurry up if you want to avoid the nerve damage and deformity that result from long-term exposure to the germ.
round
▪ All three hurried round the side of the house and issued through the gates on to the road.
▪ Fretting, he thought of hurrying round to have it out with him, whatever it was.
▪ He leapt out of his side and hurried round to help her down.
▪ Jack hurried round to hold open the driver's door.
▪ I hurried round the corner to where I'd parked Armstrong and climbed aboard.
▪ She hurried round to Mozart's apartment, where she found Constanze in a terrible state, though trying to keep calm.
▪ They climbed out and hurried round to the back of the van to open the doors.
through
▪ Carson let the door swing behind him, hurrying through into the sitting room and reaching for the receiver.
▪ Donna hurried through into the kitchen and sat down at the wooden table, pulling the envelopes from her handbag.
▪ Folly threw on a dressing-gown and hurried through to answer it, praying that it wouldn't be Luke.
▪ Major health service legislation was not completed, but other legislation was hurried through.
up
▪ The coachman took my luggage and called me to hurry up.
▪ The minute Mooney and Carper came out of the kitchen, she hurried up Main Street.
▪ He hurried up the aisle of the church, showing his palms by way of apology when he reached his place.
▪ Gabriel hurried up to try to hear what was said, but the door closed in her face.
▪ Belinda thought as she hurried up the front steps.
▪ Oh Emma, Emma. Hurry up.
▪ How many pieces of fruit do I have altogether? Hurry up!
▪ Come on, hurry up and get out of here.
■ NOUN
need
▪ There was now no need to hurry.
■ VERB
come
▪ They were waiting for the lift when they saw a man come hurrying in through the swing doors.
▪ Ada, come on, hurry up.
▪ Zoser came hurrying out of the church and joined his wife.
▪ A tall man in a cloth cap came after, hurrying to catch them up.
▪ The old steward came hurrying up, huffing and puffing, but Carey snarled at him so he slunk away.
▪ Rosa came hurrying, and Michele gave the housekeeper some rapid orders before carrying Luce up to her room.
▪ The Governor licked his lips, aware that they were once more dry. Come on, hurry up and get out of here.
▪ Michael came hurrying towards Sean at the top of the aisle and took Noreen's other arm.
tell
▪ He told us to hurry back home after the picture had finished because it might get foggy later.
▪ The washing sort of turns me on and I tell her to hurry up.
▪ Pull yourself together, she told herself, and hurried downstairs.
▪ His stepmother told him to hurry up.
▪ And besides, she told herself as she hurried back to the van, it was kinder to do it impersonally.
▪ He told me not to hurry, that he had till six-thirty in the morning to listen if I wanted to practice.
▪ But Will told her not to hurry.
▪ Phil told him as they hurried off.
try
▪ Don't try to hurry the programme of exercises, which should take about twenty minutes or so.
▪ Alice said a quick hello and tried to hurry into the front room, but Duvall called her back.
▪ Graham was only a little impatient, and he knew better than to try to hurry Slater up.
▪ He'd tried to hurry Eloise away, to sidetrack the woman standing in their path.
▪ Lorton knew Fred too well to try to hurry him.
▪ Means to try to hurry things along.
turn
▪ With an odd sigh, and a funny little shake of his head, he turned and hurried out.
▪ He pointed, then turned and hurried through a dark door-way at the back of his little shop.
▪ This strange mood seemed to leave her then, and she turned and hurried back to Sikes' house.
▪ It turned and hurried away into the darkness.
▪ Coming to a decision, she turned and hurried down the stairs.
wish
▪ Meals are not just about eating, they are about talking and not wishing to hurry into another room for coffee.
▪ He dearly wished they would hurry up and tell him what to do.
▪ Joshua shifted uneasily in his seat and wished they would hurry up.
▪ Part of her was wishing they would hurry up and the other part was hoping they'd take for ever!
▪ Consequently, they are sometimes taken by employed people who wish to hurry things through.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Brewing beer is a long process and should not be hurried.
▪ Elizabeth disappeared into the crowd and Donald had to hurry after her.
▪ In the kitchen Paul was hurrying to get the dinner ready before six o'clock.
▪ Please hurry - this is an emergency.
▪ The day was cold, and students hurried across campus to warm classrooms.
▪ Their mother hurried the children across the street.
▪ We have plenty of time, there's no need to hurry.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As the warriors turned to fight, Joseph hurried the helpless ones towards the gorge into which Canyon Creek ran.
▪ Below her a gigantic cat head also dozes, while a furtive, headless male figure hurries off to the left.
▪ Fand, standing guard outside the Tower, had warned her to hurry.
▪ I do not agree with this frenetic trend to hurry children toward paper-and-pencil drills and skills.
▪ Kicking aside a shattered bone, he hurried on.
▪ The rare passersby hurried, emitting puffs of vapor from their nostrils.
▪ While he was packing, the letter from Izz and Marian arrived, and made him hurry even more.
▪ Who of the young but hurried forth?
II.nounCOLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
great
▪ Boys had a way of doing things in a great hurry and then regretting them afterwards.
▪ It should have told us something that we were in no great hurry.
▪ They ran away in a great hurry.
▪ The other type, speedsters, are in a great hurry to get the piece out.
▪ They married in a great hurry and then she told him that by marrying she'd lost her 50 a year!
▪ Finally I hurried to the kitchen, where I washed in a great hurry.
▪ He was surely in no great hurry for the money.
▪ Nobody seemed in any great hurry.
■ VERB
leave
▪ Ilsa's chair was at an angle as if she had left in a hurry.
▪ The Raiders packed up their victory and left in a hurry.
▪ Mortimer left in a hurry, caught his plane, and was standing bewigged at the Old Bailey the next day.
▪ Sorry I had to leave in such a hurry.
▪ He'd declined the butler's offer to take his coat: he might want to leave in a hurry.
▪ It looked as if some one had left in a hurry.
seem
▪ She seemed in no hurry to have them come, for her patience was equalled by her confidence.
▪ He seemed in a hurry to get away to his next appointment.
▪ No one seemed in any hurry to address the question of birth.
▪ They seemed in no hurry to escort their prisoners into the valley.
▪ But no one seemed in any hurry to do so.
▪ He seemed in no hurry to dash off and be a hero.
▪ Nobody seemed in any great hurry.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be in a tearing hurry
▪ She was sorry for this little man and his problem but she was in a tearing hurry.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But she made it to daylight in one hell of a hurry.
▪ Cars went past in a hurry to somewhere.
▪ Habibi was an impatient horse and was always in a hurry to do everything before she was even asked.
▪ He raised the gun and without hurry brought it down upon my skull.
▪ The Bears will have to find cohesion in a hurry.
▪ The Raiders packed up their victory and left in a hurry.
▪ What are they in such a hurry for?