OO14a

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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