Adjective complement with noun phrase

• bleed: We all know who is to blame: the overpaid hospital managers who are bleeding the system dry.

Object

• fruit: Mix in the dried fruit and nuts or seeds.

• herb: Many of us have been using dried herbs in cooking for years.

• yeast: Sprinkle in the dried yeast, stir and leave to froth for 15 minutes.

• fig: Substitute sweet snacks for unsalted nuts, dried figs or apricots, pumpkin or sunflower seeds, oatcakes and raw vegetable sticks.

• chili: Try spicing up soy sauce by adding four star anise, three dried chillies and twenty peppercorns to 300 ml soy.

Modifies a noun

• dock: The group of buildings to the left of the dry docks was the Manchester Corporation Foreign Cattle Depot.

• mouth: Back to top What other medicines cause a dry mouth?

• weather: Even a few weeks of very hot, dry weather can dry out the upper layers of the soil.

• spell: However, here are some pictures of sunny smiles during a dry spell!

• skin: I have very dry, tight skin - not flaky - just tight.

• rot: I heard of a church that had dry rot.

Used with adjective complement

• tumble: Cool, gentle hand wash, do not agitate or wring, dry flat, do not spin or tumble dry.

• bleed: As Wrong shows, under Mobutu the Congolese people experienced not so much a ' trickle down ' as a bleeding dry.

• stay: For the rest of the country it will stay dry with sunny spells a nd varying amounts of cloud.

• boil: Make sure that the pan does not boil dry.

Followed by an intransitive particle

• out: Salt water never properly dries out, the list is endless.

Preposition: in

• sun: These stones, when quarried, are taken back to the side of the road and left to dry in the sun.