adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
building
▪ Motion at the rooftops of two nearby buildings was up to three times that at ground level.
▪ Night-lights in the nearby buildings had been blown so it was a while before they could see anything clearly.
▪ Perhaps it would be overhung by trees or shaded by nearby buildings.
▪ Many of those evacuated were relocated to nearby buildings.
▪ Police evacuated nearby buildings and cordoned off the area while they defused the bomb.
▪ Its current headquarters is at Harrison and Spear, with additional space in two nearby buildings.
▪ The hotel and nearby buildings were still being evacuated when it exploded.
church
▪ The airship's charred ensign hangs in the nearby church.
▪ At several stops, Mr Potts and the matrons removed small groups of children to a nearby church or hall.
▪ Yesterday police questioned worshippers at a nearby church, but say there have been no new leads.
▪ Why not establish an official school in a nearby church or settlement house?
▪ Complimentary tickets to a Vivaldi concert or similar in the nearby church for guests arriving on Sunday staying 7 nights or more.
▪ Only time and a falling tide prevented him from going up a nearby church tower and filming us again.
▪ At least 13 bodies were later carried to a nearby church and up to a hundred casualties were admitted to hospital.
city
▪ There are no nearby cities, and there is so much space that the area remains unspoilt.
▪ Sarah and Theodore are attending a literacy class, taught in a shut-down factory, in the nearby city of Le6n.
▪ Federal welfare agencies say we and another nearby city are the two most socially-progressive communities in the state.
farm
▪ In December 1991 he often visited a nearby farm landing strip and talked to microlight owners and examined their aircraft.
▪ He ensures quality by buying them at a nearby farm where they are raised.
▪ My uncle managed to find work for him on one of the nearby farms and the family moved in with him.
▪ He was made redundant from a nearby farm in 1994, after working there for 10 years.
▪ The gipsies had tampered with the water supply causing flooding to a nearby farm and generally been a nuisance, he added.
▪ William Day had been working late at a nearby farm.
▪ Primary investigations into a suspected outbreak of foot-and-mouth at a nearby farm have drawn a blank.
field
▪ Sheep were turfed out of three nearby fields make temporary car parks.
▪ Since he himself was young and energetic, he sometimes organised a game of football for them in a nearby field.
▪ Sometimes the only safe thing to do is to land out of the site altogether in a nearby field.
▪ This was mid-June, and in the nearby fields, next season s crops were maturing.
▪ It is believed that the gang had been watching the property from a nearby field.
▪ Police found Davis hiding in a nearby field.
▪ Under a dry bank in a nearby field he discovered a spring.
▪ Travelling by road or train, try to make a quick choice and evaluation of the nearby fields.
home
▪ The clubhouse is prominently placed close to the park boundary and nearby homes.
▪ Residents fear a relocation at Hydebank could lead to another attack with massive blast damage being caused to nearby homes.
▪ Flooding affected two roads, nearby homes and local pubs.
▪ Occasionally he went by car to the nearby homes of members of his family.
▪ Up to 50 nearby homes were also caught in the explosion.
▪ They spotted Oxford graduate John Lavender, 28, who was returning to his nearby home after a meal with a friend.
▪ The station was evacuated, nearby homes were evacuated.
hospital
▪ They then hacked off his legs before dumping the remains in the grounds of a nearby hospital.
hotel
▪ My companion and I walked towards a small, nearby hotel that we knew.
▪ Screams erupted at a nearby hotel, where Microsoft founder Bill Gates was addressing an education and technology conference.
▪ They were engaged before the relocation and given their induction training in a nearby hotel.
▪ Poole finally abandoned Cassidy when a gunman opened fire from the window of a nearby hotel.
▪ Guests are also welcome to use the pool and facilities of the nearby Hotel Thermai.
▪ Copeland watched the carnage on television at a nearby hotel.
▪ They got back into the car and drove to a nearby hotel.
▪ They were borrowed from a nearby hotel when it was revealed that the castle did not have enough.
house
▪ We can also book twin or double rooms in nearby houses for your sole use for a £55 supplement.
▪ He had told Rob there was a nearby house for rent.
▪ A couple of grenades then set a nearby house alight.
▪ In nearby houses, thieves have taken water containers, clothes and sandals from those who have them.
▪ After a few hundred yards, he sought sanctuary in a nearby house.
▪ She had run to a nearby house, and all four residents had seen some of her injuries.
▪ One wooden paddle later formed the basis of' the front door of' a nearby house.
▪ One came through the kitchen window of a nearby house while the family was eating in the dining room.
resident
▪ Spraying crops and burning stubble also provoke outcries from nearby residents.
▪ Like Lindbergh Field, Stapleton has been the target of noise complaints and lawsuits from nearby residents.
▪ This produces a lot of propeller noise at the hovercraft terminals, and annoys nearby residents.
▪ Opposed were well over 100 of the nearby residents.
▪ The church said yesterday its objections only reflected the wishes of nearby residents.
▪ Park officials and nearby residents begin assessing damage, as do county emergency management leaders.
▪ But that's upset nearby residents.
▪ And nearby residents reported a six-hour blackout in the pre-dawn hours on Saturday.
river
▪ Most small towns of any significance lay on the principal roads; some also enjoyed the advantages provided by a nearby river.
▪ For science, students drew maps of the nearby river, studied its ecosystem, and investigated animals in the area.
▪ The nearby River Great Ouse was higher than the level on the streets.
▪ Josaphat, his body was thrown into a nearby river, where it remained for almost a week.
▪ The mine was shut down last August after a spill of polluted water from a waste pond flowed into a nearby river.
street
▪ The crash was so violent that one coach was flung into a nearby street.
▪ Some nearby street artists, who hold permits to set up tables to sell their wares, have complained.
table
▪ We've been aware of the conversation at a nearby table-now we can hear it.
▪ People at nearby tables looked round.
▪ One or two people at nearby tables looked across at us as if we'd said something out of order.
▪ Her boss being a surly middle-aged man at a nearby table in an otherwise almost empty caf.
▪ Her face lit up with a delighted smile as she gazed at an abandoned plate of half-eaten sandwiches on a nearby table.
▪ McCready noticed two coffee mugs standing on a nearby table.
▪ A sword hung at his side and a plain iron helmet lay close to his hand on a nearby table.
▪ A white ceramic coffee-pot and cups stood on a tray on a nearby table.
town
▪ Reports are coming into the newsroom of a cholera epidemic in a nearby town.
▪ Trucks ferried load after load of corpses to the nearby town of Kiryat Shemona for identification.
▪ The extension of commuting hinterlands has increasingly brought rural areas within the daily journey-to-work range of nearby towns.
▪ Taxis can be hired in the nearby towns of Kalambaka or Kastraki.
▪ After leaving the letter in a drawer she had gone to a nearby town and booked in at a hotel.
▪ He owned a shop in a nearby town.
▪ He began employment in the office of a tin-mining company at the nearby town of Mount Bischoff.
tree
▪ Julie was cut down beneath a nearby tree on the beautiful nature reserve 220 miles north of Durban.
▪ Reichardt is currently experimenting with free-range ducks, which are raised in an open field bordered by nearby trees to provide shade.
▪ Up in a nearby tree a magpie chattered at her.
▪ Sometimes we can alter shade by pruning and thinning nearby trees.
▪ Asik ran behind a nearby tree and watched.
▪ A nearby tree showed deep claw marks to the height of ten feet.
village
▪ The bulk of his clients comprise severely disturbed psychotic patients from nearby villages and towns.
▪ The toll mounted Friday when three Christians were found slain in sugar cane fields in the nearby village of El Zuheir.
▪ Thousands of people carry firewood on their heads to Ranchi every day from nearby villages.
▪ I drove the women into the nearby village for provisions, which completely turned their heads.
▪ During Soviet rule a man from a nearby village was lionised for supposedly living to 168.
▪ Peasants in black pajamas and conic straw hats had flowed in from nearby villages to mingle with merchants and mandarins.
▪ George Broomham was a farm labourer from East Woodhay, a nearby village.
▪ The group will stay in Norwich and Cambridge and travel each day to the nearby villages.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Dinah lives in a nearby cottage.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ At that moment, there came a nearby clatter of mops and pails.
▪ For the first part of the route, the embankment gives views across Carrickknowe golf course and the nearby allotments.
▪ He faces a second charge of attempting to rob assistant Elizabeth Walsh at the nearby Grotto card shop on the same day.
▪ Screams erupted at a nearby hotel, where Microsoft founder Bill Gates was addressing an education and technology conference.
▪ The toll mounted Friday when three Christians were found slain in sugar cane fields in the nearby village of El Zuheir.
▪ They were cared for by friends at their home in nearby Witney.
▪ Tom continues in school until he is sixteen, and Maggie goes to a nearby girls' school, along with Lucy.