English Collocations

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touch to touch more 254 V:mod:A Kwaito has touched more than the music scene in South Africa .

Be careful how you get them out ; you do n't want to have to touch anything more than you can help .

His simple confidence touched me more than the curious ways of all the other mice .

touch to touch only 170 V:mod:A The religious life of the individual -- the real , deep , personal , hidden , unseen , inner life of a human soul -- is a wonderfully delicate thing , to be touched by another only with the profoundest love and deepest wisdom .

But Achilles could be touched only in his heel ; and if he was to die by an enemy 's hands , must not the arrow find out that only vulnerable place ?

touch to touch first 111 V:mod:A The mental and moral laws of the universe touch us first and chiefly as human beings .

Instead of the soles of the feet being placed upon the floor , the ankle touched first .

The Saints were ultimately ruled to have touched it first .