About the wind blowing hard: “Last night the wind ________ (very hard).”
| BLEW | 875 |
| BLOWED | 108 |
| HOWLED | 18 |
| NR | 18 |
| BLEW A GALE | 11 |
| BLOW | 5 |
| ROARED | 3 |
| BLEW LIKE HELL | 2 |
| BLOWED A GALE | 2 |
| FROZE | 2 |
| WAS BLOWING | 2 |
| WHISTLED | 2 |
| BLEW A BLAST | 1 |
| BLEW A HURRICANE | 1 |
| BLEW HARD | 1 |
| BLEW LIKE HECK | 1 |
| BLEW LIKE HELL–FIERCE | 1 |
| BLEW LIKE THE OLD HARRY | 1 |
| BLEW THE ROOF OFF | 1 |
| BLOWED AWFUL HARD | 1 |
| BLOWED OVER | 1 |
| BLOWING | 1 |
| CAME UP | 1 |
| COME | 1 |
| JUST A-WHISTLING | 1 |
| REALLY CARRIED ON | 1 |
| REALLY HOWLED | 1 |
| REALLY WHISTLED | 1 |
| SHRIEKED | 1 |
| SOUGHED | 1 |
| STIFF BREEZE | 1 |
| STRONG | 1 |
| WAS FURIOUS | 1 |
| WAS GUSTING | 1 |
| WAS HOWLING | 1 |
| WAS JUST RIPPING | 1 |
| WAS TERRIFIC | 1 |
| WE HAD A HARD BLOW | 1 |
| WINDY | 1 |
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