noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a birthday/Christmas/wedding cake (= a special cake for a birthday etc )
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Lucy had twelve candles on her birthday cake.
a Christmas gift
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Before 1940, most people did not wrap Christmas gifts.
a Christmas present
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What would Dad like as a Christmas present?
a Christmas/Halloween etc party
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I hope you’re going to the office Christmas party.
celebrate Christmas/Thanksgiving etc
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How do you usually celebrate New Year?
Christmas cake
Christmas card
Christmas carol
Christmas cookie
Christmas cracker
Christmas Day
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I always spend Christmas Day with my family.
Christmas dinner
Christmas Eve
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We spent Christmas Eve cooking and getting ready for Christmas Day.
Christmas Eve
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We’re arriving on Christmas Eve .
Christmas pudding
Christmas shopping
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So you've done all your Christmas shopping, have you?
Christmas stocking
Christmas tree
Christmas/Easter/Independence etc Day
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What day of the week is Christmas Day this year?
Christmas/New Year celebrations
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They invited me to join in their Christmas celebrations.
Father Christmas
Sunday/Christmas/Thanksgiving dinner (= a special meal eaten on Sunday etc )
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We usually have a walk after Christmas dinner.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
happy
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Meanwhile, may I wish you all a very Happy Christmas and best wishes for the coming year.
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If you want to be happy on Christmas Day, give something away, give something away.
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Wishing you all a very happy time this Christmas .
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Love to Jane and the children. Happy Christmas !
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I wish every one of you and your families a truly Happy Christmas and a very prosperous New Year.
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We wish you all a happy Christmas .
merry
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We Wish you a Merry Christmas , this one's called.
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Hello, Father! Merry Christmas !
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In the hasty and confused breakup, nobody wished anybody a happy Hanukkah, a merry Christmas or a happy New Year.
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Faith still does the impossible! Merry Christmas !
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Here's hoping for a Merry Christmas .
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But no matter what trips your escapism triggers, City Week still wishes you and yours a big Merry Christmas .
■ NOUN
card
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Plowden Station was featured as a Christmas card and Russell Mulford has a copy of this postcard.
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Every year fewer Christmas cards arrived, and fewer still were sent.
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I shall put this in with your Christmas card , so here's wishing you every happiness at Christmas.
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She sent me a Christmas card .
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The two men communicated less and less over the years, but his wife would send an annual Christmas card .
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I bought some Christmas cards all on my own.
cards
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Every year fewer Christmas cards arrived, and fewer still were sent.
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I bought some Christmas cards all on my own.
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The repair bill had come through Henry's letter box along with some Christmas cards .
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More distant friends exchange letters or Christmas cards , and so on.
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Two childish Christmas cards , obviously made at school, stood on the mantelpiece.
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He remembered her using it, writing Christmas cards with it, and shopping lists.
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Better make it fifty, he thought, seeing himself distributing them like Christmas cards .
carol
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Made up the words and music to a Christmas carol ?
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The offices are so old-fashioned that one was used as Scrooge's office in a recent film version of A Christmas Carol .
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The repertoire was as follows, in chronological order of being devised: A Christmas Carol .
day
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Legislation to outlaw Christmas Day trading looks set to be in place in time for this year's festive period.
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His death came on Christmas Day , 1875, three months after his wife, Margaret, and baby died in childbirth.
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Des O'Connor Tonight returns on Christmas Day .
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Then they broke the chair into pieces, agreeing to save the folding tables for a Christmas Day blaze.
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On Christmas Day little Anne looked lonely.
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So on Christmas Day I found myself flying with Farris.
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But there was scarcely enough to colour the greyness of Christmas Day itself.
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Clinton will make similar calls on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day , they added.
dinner
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Helped to cook the Christmas dinner ?
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When Joe was asked to join the First Family each year for Christmas dinner , it posed a dilemma.
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Over £1,500 was raised at the fete and this will be used to give 200 pensioners a slap-up Christmas dinner .
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I wish she would show me how to get through homework and adolescence instead of just Christmas dinner for 40.
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And tonight the traditional college Christmas dinner was cancelled as a mark of respect.
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Frank would go home with a friend for Christmas dinner and I would be left here alone.
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At the lunchtime Christmas dinner Tina, Jean and Hilda decided to wear their new bonnets with the flowers all round.
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Margaret cooked a small Christmas dinner .
eve
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On Christmas Eve my nine-year-old grandson James was admitted in the early evening for an emergency appendix operation.
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His third day in jail was Christmas Eve .
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This would be their first Christmas Eve alone.
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Although they set up housekeeping a couple of years ago, Dave officially proposed last Christmas Eve .
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Within this period, the most significant day is Christmas Eve .
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The reindeers just would not have managed without him on this dark Christmas Eve , they would have got lost.
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It's Christmas Eve , remember?
gift
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These will be on sale very soon and would make an ideal Christmas gift .
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Next they began accepting credit cards, running advertising, and promoting park permits as Christmas gifts .
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Its new Web site offers one thousand items for sale, mostly targeted towards the Christmas gift market.
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I got mine as a Christmas gift .
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Of course, an attractively arranged selection of sweets also makes a lovely Christmas gift .
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During December, people shop for Christmas gifts .
holiday
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Our only hope is a good old winter storm over the Christmas holiday .
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When the Christmas holidays arrived, I was shocked and disappointed to learn that the company does not give bonuses.
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It took place on the Monday after Twelfth Day when the farm workers returned to work after the Christmas holiday .
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Over the Christmas holiday , the airlines started a series of fare hikes -- the first since October.
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The new machine is capable of producing 800-1000 square metres daily and should be operational before the Christmas holidays .
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The Christmas holiday , which is eight months away, will be another major threat to the system, analysts said.
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You will probably become an addict and spend much time over the Christmas holiday on fringes for stoles and scarves as well!
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The 1906 Christmas holidays were also filled with racial disorders.
morning
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Her grandmother was now on her feet again; in fact, she had got on her feet on Christmas morning .
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His renewed interest sparked a Christmas morning argument.
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Then woke up and it was Christmas morning .
party
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Everything I said about the Christmas party was true.
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A Carol Service had been arranged and the Christmas party would take place on 15 December.
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And now she expected Gabby to come to their rotten Christmas party .
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The Welfare Committee and friends help out at the children's Christmas party .
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The office for foreign students arranged a Christmas Party .
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It is an elevating experience filling gas balloons for the Christmas party .
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At the hospital and even at the Christmas party with former patients, disability 143 was the norm.
period
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Euston Films' future Christmas Period Stand-By was not an overnight success.
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It is intended that a steel structure forming the skeleton will be erected over the Christmas period .
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At best, only about three-quarters of trains are expected to run over the Christmas period .
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More shows would be crammed into the Christmas period to enable poor producers to eat in the coming year.
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He caused many an offence during the Christmas period by openly stating his hatred of the Geldof coup.
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Volunteers will hold a meeting this weekend to discuss fund-raising plans for the Christmas period .
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We had agreed that over the Christmas period he was not going to play.
present
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I dig the garden, or wrap my Christmas presents .
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Could that be where the explanation lies as to why she gave her already suicidal husband twin pistols as a Christmas present ?
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Tomorrow was Christmas Day, and she had only one dollar and eighty-seven cents to buy Jim a Christmas present .
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When Jim arrived home from work, Della told Jim what she had done to buy his Christmas present .
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Why not make an extra batch for a delectable Christmas present ?
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Obviously they were trying out a Christmas present .
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He was an unwanted Christmas present .
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They had sacrificed their greatest treasures to give each other the best possible Christmas present .
sale
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Safeway, the food retailer, was up 0.7 per cent after news that its Christmas sales had exceeded market forecasts.
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The home-improvement chain blamed weaker-than-expected Christmas sales .
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Retailers have been almost unanimous in reporting higher Christmas sales .
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While analysts predicted pre-Christmas sales were flat, retail sales in November rose 1. 2 percent.
season
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The Christmas season , in case you hadn't noticed, is almost here.
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All told, I counted about 200 catalogs that my overburdened mail carrier had to tote and deliver during the Christmas season .
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The grand opening was in the Christmas season of 1896 on 14 December.
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I keep them around, for which I became very grateful this Christmas season when suddenly I needed some clip art.
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Whether the ministerial Working Party will reach agreement before the Christmas season remains to be seen.
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Retailers were delighted, likening the sales pace to the Christmas season .
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Players will begin trickling into the marketplace by spring, with the biggest push at the Christmas season .
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Hiring was weak in much of the state, reflecting the lackluster Christmas season reported by many retailers.
time
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One group at Christmas time invited some elderly people into their school to talk about Christmas when they were children.
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The ship should return about Christmas time .
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Festive Food Everyone seems to enjoy special foods at Christmas time - from roast turkey to stuffed dates and other sweet treats.
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The Julenisse have very bad tempers, so children leave them bowls of porridge at Christmas time .
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What do Tarzan and the animals sing at Christmas time ?
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Thus the amount of notes in circulation is always more at Christmas time .
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Imagine friends that you see only once a year, say at Christmas time .
tree
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Baked star biscuits to hang on a Christmas tree ?
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We had a tumbleweed like that in Arizona for a Christmas tree , but this photograph was taken in Colorado.
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All that glitters may not be gold, but these decorations would add elegance and sparkle to any Christmas tree .
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Who would want a tumbleweed for a Christmas tree in a home resting among evergreens?
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We've got our own Christmas tree to see to.
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Then the fir tree told the mice of its grandest moment as a Christmas tree and shared the story of Humpty Dumpty.
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I du n no how tall it is, but the Christmas tree outside the caff is blummin huge.
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Prevent pine-needle fall-out from covering your floors when removing your Christmas tree .
■ VERB
buy
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So please remember our catalogue when deciding on what to buy as Christmas or birthday gifts.
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Purchasers include the many thousands of people who bought new computers at Christmas that came pre-loaded with it.
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Hust the number plate to buy Auntie for Christmas .
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When Jim arrived home from work, Della told Jim what she had done to buy his Christmas present.
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Tomorrow was Christmas Day, and she had only one dollar and eighty-seven cents to buy Jim a Christmas present.
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That year Thanksgiving was due to fall on Nov. 30, which would leave only 20 buying days before Christmas .
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I bought some Christmas cards all on my own.
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And tomorrow afternoon, I could go by some of the shops on my way home and buy him something for Christmas .
celebrate
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The Victorians knew how to celebrate Christmas in style.
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He celebrated Christmas Day 1176 at Bordeaux.
send
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The tights I send via Inga at Christmas were probably too small.
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Clarence sent him a Christmas card every year.
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We send Christmas cards, but the Neanderthals did not.
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She sent her packages for Christmas , Easter and birthdays, and wrote her regular letters.
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She sent me a Christmas card.
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The two men communicated less and less over the years, but his wife would send an annual Christmas card.
spend
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He'd spent Christmas with friends in Crowmarsh.
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My father spent his first Christmas after liberation in jail because the Communists had marked him as uncooperative.
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He spent Christmas at Poitiers with Charles and Judith.
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Lance wondered why no articles were done about how she spent her Christmas .
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Meant to be born in 1997, she spent her first Christmas in the neonatal intensive care unit with 16 other preemies.
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Returning to work the following day we found out how Donald had spent his Christmas .
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Families who would otherwise spend Christmas in bed-and-breakfast accommodation would then have a house to live in.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Happy Birthday/New Year/Christmas etc
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A Happy New Year to you.
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After midnight neighbours go outside and wish everyone a Happy New Year.
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But bookings still rose 41 % from the $ 3. 41 billion posted a year earlier. Happy New Year.
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Let's hope that a wet spring will bring green shoots for Roberts and the economy alike. Happy New Year.
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That is what Britain needs as we move into what we all want, a really Happy New Year.
Independence/election/Christmas etc day
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By election day , many observers will question why Bill Clinton and Bob Dole were nominated and why they are running.
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It was July 1, almost Independence Day .
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Legislation to outlaw Christmas Day trading looks set to be in place in time for this year's festive period.
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She has a rat on top of the living room door on Christmas Day , for example, and it will last her two days.
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Then came the Christmas Day massacre, by an Inkatha mob several hundred strong.
Merry Christmas!
a white Christmas
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Despite the cold snap, a white Christmas was an unlikely prospect for most people.
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Music piped from nowhere and everywhere with the dream of a white Christmas.
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Noreen was hoping for a white Christmas but she was going to be disappointed.
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While many children were hoping for a white Christmas more than 500,000 families were packing their suitcases and heading for the sun.
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Who's been dreaming of a white Christmas?
birthday/Christmas etc greetings
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People's voices, exchanging Christmas greetings echoed on the clear air.
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The members wanted to visit the lady to pass on birthday greetings .
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These days they hung on for their hundred-year-old birthday greetings from the White House.
this side of Christmas/midnight etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Julie went snowboarding over Christmas .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And to think when Peggy was little Gran wouldn't let me switch on the tree lights until Christmas Eve.
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It's getting nearly Christmas now.
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Last winter featured tartan themes, while metallic Sixties dresses and lurex tops were popular at Christmas .
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Piling for the new bridge was completed by Christmas .
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The annual Christmas program, with full tuxedoed orchestra, sets, choreography and Broadway-caliber costumes, was standing room only.
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The consumer electronics industry suffered through one of its worst Christmas seasons in decades in 1996.
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The first time I see him is at the Christmas bonfire, when I am in the ninth grade.