Follow the link below to have a look at the British National Corpus, which gives you access to an enormous body of information about the usage of English words and their combinations
http://sara.natcorp.ox.ac.uk
Once there, click on the following link at the bottom of the page
http://www.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/tools/
and then choose the menu option Home, which will take you to the site's Home page, which contains a search box you can enter a word or expression in to receive a list of examples of this word or expression in context. Each entry is preceded by a code which indicates the original source in which the given phrase or sentence was used.
It'd be great if you had a look at it and left your comments about it in this thread.
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