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    collect


    collected


    collecting


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    1. Each day, go outside at night and collect as many snails as you can find


    2. "I think it was the royalties I collect," she said ruefully


    3. 'So Henry didn't collect the stuff himself?'


    4. ‘Dan went to collect the stuff for him?’ Stephen repeated slowly, ‘Dan Sadler?’


    5. " She was on her way to collect her duffle


    6. She said Barney would be at nursery this morning which means that we’ll have an hour or so to talk before she has to collect him


    7. ’ She added cheekily as we turn into the nursery gate and join the crowd of young mums and not-so-young grannies waiting to collect the infants


    8. A very hot and bothered young lady, obviously acting as waitress for the day, bustles over to collect it


    9. Emma had been away at college at the time … he’d even gone up to Birmingham to collect her and bring her back for me


    10. ‘Then we’ll hire a man with a van here in Taunton and you can go back up there on Tuesday to collect the rest of it then

    11. But being in hospital won't stop him sending his guys around to collect


    12. Will is in debt for 36 thousand Euro They'll be back in just under 23 hours to collect


    13. When Robbie returned to collect my breakfast tray and lock me down for the day I stood up and touched him on the arm


    14. The morning progressed as usual, and after ten minutes of being left alone with my breakfast the guard returned to my cell to collect the dishes


    15. I am still pondering Rose’s comment when Nick turns up to collect me


    16. ’ Kara asked when Iain appeared to collect her


    17. The use of hashtags is the most important factor when hosting a campaign; it is the way you are going to collect the images which are submitted by your followers, so you can properly categorize them once they are received


    18. They would collect the fish


    19. the station to collect Pishima and her troop and usher


    20. In one rainfall, he could collect enough rainwater for 10,000 people for 10 years

    21. ” The nations need to come up to collect from the tree of life


    22. It is a wrench saying goodbye to her – this is no longer a game where all I have to do is go to the right place and collect the trophy … there are people out there trying to stop me … permanently and with extreme prejudice as the saying goes


    23. Maria's son will collect you from the airport


    24. As a man in a village of many old people, there was nothing your father could do against their irrepressible intimidation except collect pieces of evidence and bide his time


    25. Berndt, having settled Adamant, comes across to collect Sefir and leads her into the stable, chatting to the Gottesman who is showing him where everything is in there


    26. ‘I’ll have to bring Abi up here sometime soon to collect all her stuff, I suppose


    27. All I had to do was collect some kindling and wipe the sticky cobwebs from my face


    28. Karen turns up as arranged to collect Jake and, on impulse, I invite her in


    29. ‘We need to collect some of these, I think


    30. back later to collect them

    31. Sally goes on to explain that she went to pick him up after church and that he had spent the afternoon with them – Karen is coming to collect him at 10


    32. The federal government hasn’t been able to collect any taxes in generations, but the Judges collect the taxes anyway and keep it for themselves


    33. I head home to collect my car


    34. Feeling a little as though I am being examined, I collect my thoughts together


    35. People must have been living on this site for centuries … she visualised fur clad people with straggly hair wandering around the boggy bits with spears … no, that felt wrong … why would they need spears to collect plants? Baskets, perhaps … did they have baskets then? When exactly would it have been? Her daytime TV watching had given her a hazy smattering of terms – bronze age came before iron age, she knew that … but how much before? And when did they stop being savages and become civilised?


    36. areas to collect spare parts


    37. One of the two men behind the bar says something to his partner, who heads off downstairs to collect another box of plastic glasses


    38. After a few minutes, the lorry stopped again, this time to collect a


    39. Fred was instructed to form a party to go back and collect the


    40. He loses sight of them as they collect cups, teaspoons and cartons of milk, which forces him to turn round to see where they are heading

    41. ‘I’ve sometimes filled one and put it out for the men to collect and then changed my mind and had to haul it back indoors again


    42. And I came here, to this house to collect him


    43. In the late hours, when he, Jock and Maggie have sat nursing tumblers of liquid gold, Billy has often wondered why people collect anaemic porcelain figurines and display them in wall cabinets


    44. The bar looks like a waiting room for the terminally depressed, somewhere that the Grim Reaper might park his latest charges while he goes off to collect the rest of the damned


    45. Stopping outside the house, I collect the post from the box on the wall and, as Sam wags her way round my legs, I finger through the half dozen letters … two offering me credit cards I don’t want, something addressed to ‘The occupier’, a bank statement, an electricity bill and a consumer survey


    46. It was after supper, as Janine and Elizabeth left to collect


    47. As he extricates himself from his car, I collect up my music ready for the practice


    48. as you endeavour to collect witnesses and statements –


    49. Yet there is something amoral in an organization that can collect shonggot victims to experiment on


    50. As I wander into the bathroom to collect my toothbrush, a voice from the shower stops me in my tracks,














































    1. ) (Subscribed: The amount actually collected)


    2. He drinks some of the water he has collected


    3. Also there was evidence that peripheral blood had been collected


    4. Bahkmar had four, one of each wife, collected while they lived in the suburbs of greater Baikonur


    5. They had all been collected after he'd been shot, fertilized using his frozen sperm


    6. Steven collected the breakfast trays, winked at us and shook his head


    7. Just the once, when we collected James


    8. Once again they collected themselves and headed off into the


    9. Then there had been what Joris had termed ‘bits and pieces’ – in truth, valuable artefacts collected from all over the world that he had garnered during his travels; after discussions with Berndt who had taken a quick look at the vast store of, without exception, items of considerable artistic merit if not value, Kara had agreed that the bulk might be offered to the new Guild to form the basis of a museum of some sort


    10. In the next few hours more data flooded in than she'd collected so far

    11. collected in slivers, white coral mosses,


    12. collected in the grime-grained bowl,


    13. ‘Well, we got back to Agna’s house as fast as we could, collected her family and went up to the kahtstation – Agna called a kaht and took us to Rome where the kahtmaster and his wife put us up


    14. Both Fred and Joe collected their macs and caps


    15. collected up the bicycles and after securing the workshop left for


    16. Alderfolk Pottypears went into his offices and collected the keys;


    17. of gene and splice, of collected history


    18. Into the Walled Garden – poetry - collected works 2001-2010


    19. 'As I say, some time ago Pantelis got wind of what was going on and over a period of time he collected his evidence: names, numbers, times, photographs, dates, recordings; a comprehensive list of villains, including prominent public figures, involved one way or another in the smuggling and acquisition of priceless cultural objects


    20. Remember, as best you can, try to remain calm and collected, remain

    21. Using DNA collected from their many searches, they spliced genes together and created slave workers to do their mundane tasks


    22. She couldn’t look at her step-father, knowing that if she did she would unravel, so she mumbled an affirmative and rushed out of the room, collected her school bag from the foot of the stairs and ran out of the house, her eyes brimming with tears


    23. 'Really? Wow,' I said and collected myself


    24. And old Master Seatac, seeing what each of them had tried to deny, collected on many more bets


    25. 'Short call, need some coins,' I said as I collected the change


    26. He collected all the invoices


    27. ‘As her boss, I was given the enjoyable task of presenting her with the cheque we’d collected for her – Sally, they raised nearly £200! Claire, the girl who works in the office with Anna, had elicited the information by some means or other that Anna wanted money to buy linen and crockery when they get to Italy so in the end we’d decided to just give her the cash


    28. a sound and collected way: move on


    29. others in a sound, collected manner


    30. room, collected her school bag from the foot of the stairs and ran

    31. This was part of the small inheritance he had collected


    32. Once the harvest had been collected


    33. The young men were collected by a lorry driven by a rather


    34. She knew some of the artists he collected, one of them personally


    35. “You’re supposed to pay to see them, Johnny,” I said as I collected the


    36. Breakfast had appeared as before, but it was some hours before he was collected and escorted back to the interview room


    37. He collected the coins from his cap and


    38. before Cardinal Sandini collected his medicine


    39. face as her husband collected his things and waved


    40. forthcoming he jumped off the stool and collected his coat

    41. collected and brought to the church a


    42. paid his bill with the Innkeeper, collected his belongings,


    43. Sally collected him


    44. he who had collected the evidence that was going to hang


    45. the taxes he had collected


    46. off, then we collected the others and headed downstairs to


    47. The whole of what is annually either collected or produced by the labour of every society, or, what comes to the same thing, the whole price of it, is in this manner originally distributed among some of its different members


    48. bread, paid his bill, collected Annabelle, and left the Inn a


    49. As he collected his belongings and set off late that


    50. he exited the Cathedral, collected Annabelle, and headed














































    1. ’ He said, pausing as though collecting his thoughts


    2. But collecting and reading was an obsession as well


    3. Calmly collecting up the plates he carried them over to the sink before replying


    4. Probably the local church collecting for something


    5. ‘What have I let myself in for?’ he muttered theatrically as Liz, who has been collecting up some of the soggy wallpaper which fell out of the bag, throws a handful at him


    6. This wasn't a politician looking for votes or a local kid collecting for a sponsored run


    7. After a few moments collecting his thoughts and parcelling them up with the abject


    8. interested in collecting his fee


    9. Jesus goes to that place where the moneychangers are collecting money and banning Gentiles and says, “My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations, but you have made it a den of thieves!” This same mentality runs deep within all of mankind


    10. It would seem that Charos had, until now, never been interested in collecting his fee

    11. with dust collecting in the button pocket shadows,


    12. This collecting is not the final gathering of which they will never be uprooted again


    13. Pottypears was away collecting an arrivalfolk


    14. I waited till she calmed down then gave her a hand to stack them into the old pick-up that was collecting the group she was with


    15. He sits for a moment, collecting his thoughts before starting


    16. Taking the stones, Berndt, stands for a moment collecting his thoughts then, looking me full in the face, he began


    17. Without that connection, Alan had no way to verify any of the data Thom was collecting


    18. He spent every moment that he could collecting shopping trolleys full of ready cash and, when he finally had enough money to hand, he opened an account with the great and majestic bank that pulsed at the heart of London’s financial community


    19. In fact he'd also been collecting berries from the bushes outside the carport


    20. Uttah and Mateo stood up to pay their share, Felix took his time collecting the money then hissed under his breath, 'Godfrey! Walk out with us

    21. The post survived by collecting 'taxes' from the most prosperous farms around


    22. From the Hold-wall Master Seatac was collecting on several bets


    23. Simon and I stand together by the choir stalls while Peter fusses around collecting the books he is going to use


    24. He pauses collecting his thoughts – Simon has no notes; I’m impressed!


    25. Collecting up the two younger ones who are still bouncing around, we make our way thankfully to Gary’s car


    26. He spent every moment that he could collecting


    27. 'You’ve got to have parental approval which means sending home letters and then collecting the tear off slips signed by the parents


    28. something is undesirably collecting then remove it as it does so


    29. something is desirably collecting then improve upon the ways in which it


    30. the low, dark hours of the night collecting images of the most

    31. ’ He said, collecting up the crumb-laden plates


    32. I retired in February 2014 and now I’m doing what I love, writing and working to publish the books collecting electronic dust over the years


    33. island and the mainland, no one fishing or collecting lobster-pots


    34. carefully walked the stubble fields, collecting by hand any ears of


    35. ‘So what happened? I deduce from your tone that there is more to it than you just collecting an envelope from the receptionist! Did you bump into David Blake again?’


    36. I retired for good in February 2014 and now I’m doing what I love, writing and working to publish the books collecting electronic dust over the years


    37. Tom had been collecting his thoughts


    38. Sheila stood and walked round the table, collecting the empty plates


    39. ’ She said, collecting up the bowl etc and heading for the door


    40. few mements collecting his wits in the morning half-light, he

    41. Alistair paused for a moment, clearly collecting his thoughts


    42. His walls were festooned with screens and he had a brook driving an escapement driving a big tracking mirror on a suntower collecting light that was conducted thru thick fiber bundles to his components with outlets all over the room, most of them in use


    43. While he showers, I start collecting my stuff together


    44. Mike and Andy loaded their gear into the van they share and I helped Alastair by collecting up the music before he drove me home


    45. He asked if she would kindly put some water on for tea, and with a bow of thanks, he returned to the back of the house and out to the wagon, while watching the wife's routine for collecting the water and her usual efforts made for the simple task


    46. I left without even collecting my


    47. “It’s about celebrating the rich rewards of this year’s harvest, about collecting together the combined foods of all of Slump County and coming together to Trouble Valley to partake of a glorious feast with all sorts of delicious food and compare it with all the other tasty foods of New Zealand! My Mansion’s keeping an intake of the Granary where we’re keeping all the food,” Julia said


    48. only with dealing and collecting


    49. Roman continued with his trash collecting


    50. been collecting, and found out that Gazagnes had caught














































    1. Once the event occurs our cooperation to authorities, encouraging the younger lot to provide help to the needy, taking some sort of control to prevent theft and arsons, regulate the crowd that usually collects and hampers rescue efforts and the doctors amongst us to provide urgent medical aid are some of the tasks we can take upon ourselves and thus be relevant for the society even at this age


    2. He collects up his belongings and, with a cheerful wave, runs off across the sands towards the village


    3. ’ I said gratefully, as she collects up the dishes and, bidding us a good night, leaves the room


    4. Karen collects up the plates from the first course and Jake helps her take them out to the kitchen


    5. Tarak looked at the knife and approved; “she will be very impressed with the blade,” he laughed, “she collects blades from all over the galaxy


    6. Bex collects the butts and puts them in the wheelie bin


    7. He collects debts for a


    8. He must then pay for the licence to gather them, and must give up to the landlord a portion of what his labour either collects or produces


    9. "Never know the difference anyhow, leastways it won't be snatched by the wind when he collects it from the box eh!" he gave Mr


    10. still collects the tithes in the end

    11. He looks around, near tears, as he collects his thoughts


    12. He collects his thoughts


    13. A merchant, in the same manner, who is engaged in the foreign trade of consumption, when he collects goods for foreign markets, will always be glad, upon equal or nearly equal profits, to sell as great a part of them at home as he can


    14. I could use some of that energy vortex that collects there to speed up the transformation


    15. He naturally, therefore, endeavours as much as he can to turn his carrying trade into a foreign trade of consumption, If his stock, again, is employed in a foreign trade of consumption, he will, for the same reason, be glad to dispose of, at home, as great a part as he can of the home goods which he collects in order to export to some foreign market, and he will thus endeavour, as much as he can, to turn his foreign trade of consumption into a home trade


    16. It's kind of like when the rookie baseball player collects the ball from his first Home Run


    17. “It’s hard to say actually,” the troubled youth continued, “he is sort of a free spirit, collects old bar signs, movie posters and that sort of thing, restores them, or frames them, whatever…


    18. “And collects the reward


    19. However, no matter how much the State collects trillion in taxes, there is always inadequacy of resources to cover its own budget


    20. For instance, if the country collects and it spends 500 billion, in case our budget is of 99 billion, it would economize more than 401 billion every year

    21. She sees problems and forms solutions based on the data she collects


    22. Our brain constantly collects and processes millions of data derived from three typical sources: (1) the external data captured by our senses: eyes, ears, smell, taste, touch, psychic, etc


    23. I focus on the path of the broom, keeping my eyes on the dust that collects between glass fragments


    24. Sweat collects in my palms and behind my knees


    25. Sweat collects on my eyelids


    26. What is the point? Here is a woman who collects them, but they gather dust in a briefcase anyway


    27. Dust collects and spawns


    28. collects in our bones – into the ocean


    29. collects their fallen ruins; 15 And reason appears to be master of the more violent passions, as love of empire and empty boasting, and


    30. Dozens of lasers are passing by Bellona; she collects some of them into the sword on her left hand

    31. Today, visitors can appreciate, within its confines, gardens of natural delight and a museum that collects 16th and 17th centuries’ data from life at the time


    32. A glistening pool soon collects beneath his head


    33. some collects as planets, and any matter that


    34. mass it collects and compresses the more


    35. on who collects the mail didn’t amount to much in this case


    36. 14 It allows not to cut down the cultivated herbage of an enemy but preserves it from the destroyers and collects their fallen ruins; 15 And reason appears to be master of the more violent passions as love of empire and empty boasting and slander


    37. "You know that old tin-lined box from the wreck? Well, this fellow collects curious things like that, and he gave me a very good price for it


    38. One Who Collects Water stepped forward


    39. At the same time, First Of Those Who Fight moved forward and made a point of colliding with One Who Collects Water


    40. First Of Those Who Fight regarded One Who Collects Water with only one of his tertiary optical receptors

    41. This was of course an insult, but One Who Collects Water chose not to react in the presence of One Who Speaks When Others Must Be Silent


    42. “One Who Collects Water, I have in my tent a stone knife from my father's father


    43. One Who Collects Water was concerned


    44. And greetings to you, One Who Collects Water


    45. One Who Collects Water interrupted


    46. One Who Speaks When Others Must Be Silent did not turn any of his optical receptors toward One Who Collects Water


    47. “One Who Collects Water, you whine like a blind hatchling with five limbs


    48. One Who Collects Water ran with the others and attempted no further communication


    49. One Who Collects Water stirred slightly


    50. “One Who Collects Water, I am invoking elgad-shaderrou












































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    Synonyms for "collect"

    collect garner gather pull together pull in take in accumulate amass compile hoard pile up roll up call for gather up pick up cod pick pile raise aggregate meet convoke muster assemble flock convene troop secure reap glean obtain solicit negotiate receive handle manage dun bill

    "collect" definitions

    a short prayer generally preceding the lesson in the Church of Rome or the Church of England


    get or gather together


    call for and obtain payment of


    assemble or get together


    get or bring together


    gather or collect


    payable by the recipient on delivery


    make a telephone call or mail a package so that the recipient pays