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Collocations for pass - noun

1. in sports

ADJECTIVE

deep, long
short
good, perfect
dropped, errant, incomplete
Robson had pounced on a dropped pass.
careless (esp. BrE), sloppy
crisp, quick
back, cross-field, square (all in football/soccer)
forward (in rugby)
The referee disallowed the try for a forward pass.
bounce, inbounds, lob, no-look, outlet (in basketball)
screen, swing, touchdown (in American football)

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VERB + pass

play
Lafferty played a pass down the right to Gallagher.
deliver
get, pick up, receive
He picked up a back pass from one of his defenders.
complete, throw (both in American football)
McNabb has completed 57% of his passes with five touchdowns.
catch, drop (both in American football)
block, defend
His long reach enables him to block passes.
The Dolphins are among the NFL's best at defending the pass.
intercept

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PREPOSITION

pass from
Owen picked up a long pass from Beckham to score.
pass to
He played a back pass to the goalkeeper.

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2. (esp. BrE) success in exam/course

ADJECTIVE

good (BrE)
exam, examination
A level, GCSE, etc.

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VERB + pass

get (BrE, AmE), obtain, scrape
She barely scraped a pass in chemistry.

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pass + NOUN

mark (BrE), rate (BrE, AmE)
The pass mark is 40%.

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PREPOSITION

pass at
It's difficult to obtain a pass at A Level.
pass in
He should get a good pass in mathematics. (BrE)

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3. official piece of paper

ADJECTIVE

free
day, monthly, weekend, yearly
two-day, three-day, etc.
bus, rail, railway (BrE)
a monthly rail pass
security
boarding
The flight attendant asked to see my boarding pass.
hall (AmE)
The teacher wrote out a hall pass and handed it to her.
backstage
press, VIP

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VERB + pass

have
use
give sb, issue (sb with)
The visitors were issued with day passes.
produce, show

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PREPOSITION

on a pass
soldiers on a weekend pass
pass to
We bought a two-day pass to Disneyland.

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4. way through mountains

ADJECTIVE

high, low
narrow
mountain

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VERB + pass

cross, take

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PREPOSITION

over a/the pass
They had to struggle over the pass with their donkeys.
through a/the pass
A road was built through the pass.
pass over
We took the high pass over the ridge.

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PHRASES

the head of the pass, the summit of the pass, the top of the pass

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Collocations for pass - verb

1. of time

ADVERB

quickly, rapidly, soon, swiftly
The time passed quickly.
slowly
peacefully, uneventfully
The days passed uneventfully.

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VERB + pass

help (to)
We played games to help pass the time.

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2. law

ADVERB

unanimously
overwhelmingly
narrowly
The Kansas State House narrowly passed the legislation last year.

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PREPOSITION

by … to …
The bill was passed by 360 votes to 280.

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3. happen

ADVERB

peacefully

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VERB + pass

come to (formal or old-fashioned)
How did such a disaster come to pass?
I wondered how it came to pass that a thinking man bore the prejudices of his unthinking parents.
let sth
I don't like it, but I'll let it pass (= will not object).

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PREPOSITION

between
They'll never be friends again after all that has passed between them.

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PHRASES

pass unnoticed
In the confusion her departure passed unnoticed.

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Pass is used with these nouns as the subject:
amendment, boat, bullet, car, century, cloud, congress, convoy, council, crown, danger, day, deadline, decade, fit, footstep, fortnight, hour, legislature, minute, moment, month, moon, morning, nausea, ownership, parliament, procession, second, shadow, shiver, spasm, state, storm, thought, time, traffic, trail, train, voter, week, year

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Pass is used with these nouns as the object:
A level, act, amendment, audition, ball, baton, bill, budget, car, checkpoint, cheque, class, comment, course, current, decree, exam, examination, final, hurdle, infection, initiative, inspection, judgement, law, legislation, mark, measure, medical, message, milestone, motion, note, peak, phase, physical, practical, referendum, reform, remark, resolution, salt, sentence, signal, statute, subject, test, time, torch, understanding, urine, verdict, virus

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