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Collocations for borrow - verb

1. money/things

ADVERB

heavily
He borrowed heavily to set the company up.

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PREPOSITION

from
She borrowed some money from her mother.
off (informal, esp. BrE)
I borrowed £50 off my mum.
Can I borrow some coffee off you?

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2. ideas, etc.

ADVERB

freely

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PREPOSITION

from
His designs borrow freely from the architecture of ancient Egypt.

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Borrow is used with these nouns as the object:
book, capital, car, clothes, copy, fund, money, pen, pencil, phrase, sum, term, terminology, word

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