rummage

Object

• round: I'm just rummaging round the back of the fridge for a lager.

Converse of object

• have: We will be having an extended coffee break to give everyone loads of time to have a good rummage.

Preposition: through

• rubbish: Serious smokers can be seen rummaging through rubbish and peering in gutters looking for discarded, but not quite spent, Bic lighters.
• bin: However a rummage through the junk bin turned up some bicycle frame tubing ( cheap, heavy wall ) that was a close match.
• bag: The children also rummaged through bin bags to discover what the rubbish said about the people who had thrown their rubbish away.
• box: The young man rummaging through the boxes is ecstatic.
• archives: But Mann didn't spend all that time to rummage through the archives of Punk!

Adjective modifier

• quick: Other short notes are under The Woodshed if you fancy a quick rummage through.
• good: We will be having an extended coffee break to give everyone loads of time to have a good rummage.

Modifies a noun

• sale: Visit flea markets and rummage sales in some scenic corner of the country.
• dive: Dive 4: a good rummage dive to see what the sailors chucked overboard over the years including hospital beds.

Modifying Another Word

• about: Or rummage about for your Dad's porn stash.

Followed by an intransitive particle

• around: She started to rummage around in the kitchen, looking in her stash places for the necklace.
• through: We've also got materials kindly again donate by the Barnardo's NE shops, for people to rummage through at our workshops.

Followed by a transitive particle

• around: Who are these pesky little creatures who rummage around the internet all the time?

Preposition: in

• dustbin: And we would go and rummage in the dustbins in Soho for out of date film stock and use that.
• cupboard: In semi-darkness, Beth rummaged blindly in the cupboard beneath the old clay sink, knowing that in here somewhere was an oil lamp.
• drawer: Then, with a sudden thought, he rummages in a drawer of the desk and gets out a packet of papers.
• bin: The answer, my friend, is rummage in the bins.
• box: I didn't and spent about 15 minutes rummaging about in boxes looking for the Win XP CD case.