ADJ
- big, excellent, good, high, perfect, record, top
- bad, low, poor
- average, mean
- close, level
- The score was close in the final match
- overall, total
- final
- cricket, football, etc.
VERB + SCORE
- achieve, finish with, get, have
- give (sb)
- He got round the course in 72, giving him an average score of 70
- make, take
- A goal in the last few minutes took the score to 4?2
- keep, record
- I'll keep (the) score
- level, tie
- Figo levelled the scores with a curling free kick
SCORE + VERB
- be, stand at
- At half-time the score stood at 3?0
SCORE + NOUN
- card (also scorecard), chart, sheet
- Inamoto had a good game but failed to get his name on the score sheet (= failed to score)
PREP
- ~ against
- the best score for years against Italy
ADJ
- excellent, good, high, perfect, record, top
- bad, low, poor
- average, mean
- aggregate, overall, total
- IQ, test
VERB + SCORE
- achieve, get, have, obtain
- give sb
- boost, increase
- Some scientists claim that vitamins will boost your child's IQ score
SCORE + VERB
- range
- Most ten-year-olds had scores ranging between 50 and 70
PREP
- ~ for
- She got an unusually low score for creativity
ADJ
- full
- music/musical
- orchestral, piano, vocal
- the vocal score of 'The Magic Flute'
- film
PREP
- in a/the ~
- a mistake in the piano score
ADV
- nearly
- easily
- Cunningham broke away and ran some 40 metres to score easily
VERB + SCORE
- try to
- manage to
- fail to, have yet to
- Peter Walker has yet to score this season
- look likely to
- Villa always looked the team most likely to score
PREP
- against
- The England team failed to score against Italy on Saturday
- for
- She has not yet scored for her new club
- with
- He scored with a neat header
PHRASES
- come close to scoring
- It was Robertson who came closest to scoring
- open the scoring
- Zidane opened the scoring in the seventh minute of the game
ADV
- highly, well
- In the key area of negotiation, women scored highly