ADJ
- good, perfect
- careless, sloppy
- long, short
- back, cross-field, square (in football)
- forward (in rugby)
- The referee disallowed the try for a forward pass
VERB + PASS
- play
- Ziege played a pass behind the defence to Weiss
- get, pick up, receive
- block, intercept
PREP
- ~ from
- Owen picked up a long pass from Beckham to score
- ~ to
- He played a careless back pass to the goalkeeper
ADJ
- good
- exam, examination, A Level, GCSE, etc.
VERB + PASS
- get, manage, obtain, scrape
- She barely scraped a pass in chemistry
PASS + NOUN
- mark, rate
- The pass mark is 40%
- degree
- Applicants need a good degree pass
PREP
- ~ at
- It's difficult to obtain a pass at A Level
- ~ in
- He should get a good pass in mathematics
ADJ
- free
- day, monthly, weekend, yearly
- bus, rail, railway
- a monthly rail pass
- security
- boarding
VERB + PASS
- have
- use
- give sb, issue (sb with)
- The visitors were issued with day passes
- produce, show
PREP
- on a ~
- soldiers on a weekend pass
- ~ to
- We bought a two-day pass to Disneyland
PREP
- over a/the ~
- struggling over the pass with their donkeys
- through a/the ~
- building a road through the pass
- ~ over
- We took the high pass over the ridge
PHRASES
- the head/summit/top of the pass
ADV
- quickly, soon
- The time passed quickly
- slowly
- peacefully, uneventfully
- The days passed uneventfully
VERB + PASS
- help (to)
- We played games to help pass the time
PREP
- by … to …
- The bill was passed by 360 votes to 280
ADV
- peacefully
- off
- The demonstration passed off peacefully
VERB + PASS
- come to (formal or old-fashioned)
- I wondered how it came to pass that a thinking man bore the prejudices of his unthinking parents
- let sth
- I don't like it, but I'll let it pass (= will not object)
PREP
- between
- They'll never be friends again after all that has passed between them
PHRASES
- pass unnoticed
- In the confusion her departure passed unnoticed