The inspiration for this collocation dictionary came from the work of two academics working in Poland—Christian douglal Kozlowxka and Halina Dzierzanowska.　　Halina Dizerzanowska ,the late deputy head of the Instiute of Applied Linguistics at Warsaw University ,Was a pioneer of collocation studies.she started a collaboration with Christian Douglas Kozlowska in the Late seveties which resulted in 1982 in the noun-based dictionary selected English Collocations. In 1981 in they began work on a new dictionary of verb-adverb and adjective-adverb collocations whic appeared in 1991 as English Adverbial Collocations.Both dictionaries were based on a corpus of post-1960 British English writing.　　This book is dedicated to Halina Dzierzanowska and Christian Douglas Kozlowska, who understood the importance of collocation long before the rest of us.