Converse of object

• hit: A big push next before they hit the muddy ruts and splashed out in the stream.

• make: He thinks that ' set ' characters make a rut in story routine.

• have: The M5 into Devon has ruts in it like a farm track - especially up the hills.

• leave: Two years later, the ruts left by a light, two-wheeled Bronze Age cart were found nearby at Welland Bank Quarry.

Adjective modifier

• muddy: It's a long section, starting with some very muddy ruts, then climbing through a tree lined gully.

• deep: Deep ruts in the surface of the road show the result of many years of traffic.

• same: Class-based politics begins to sound more resonant once people feel they have been stuck in the same rut for more than a generation.

• good: Better of course to be stuck in a ' good rut ' than a bad rut.

Noun used with modifier

• cart: The scale of activity is indicated by the presence of cart ruts leading into the excavated rubbish pits.

• wheel: In the wheel rut 's clinging dark watch an arc of bright cloud, blue sky.

Preposition: in

• road: Carts made big ruts in the roads from the brakes on them.