request; favour (to ask); wish; please
and the like; such as; or something; something like; I hear that ...; people say that ...
anyway; anyhow; setting aside ...; regardless of ...; really; truly
to come (spatially or temporally); to approach; to come back; to do ... and come back; to come to be; to become
father; dad; husband; you (of an elderly person older than the speaker); he
trouble; bother; trouble; difficulty; care; attention
to see; to look; to examine; to look over; to look after; to attend to; to experience
no; you're welcome; not at all; don't mention it
to say; to speak; to tell; to be called
always; without exception; necessarily; certainly; without fail; positively
to reach the point where ...; to come to ...; to come to be that ...; to start to ...; to begin to ...
you said; he said; even if; do you seriously think that; I already told you; you should know by now that; the said ...
until then; till then; to that extent; the end of it; all there is to it
to give; to confer; to bestow; to kindly do for one; to oblige; to favour
good; excellent; sufficient; enough; profitable (deal, business offer, etc.); beneficial
to be (of animate objects); to exist; to stay; to be ...-ing; to have ...-ed; to be ...-ed
and; besides; because; since; the thing is; for one thing
one (esp. of two); the other; on the one hand; on the other hand; whereas; although
shameful; disgraceful; unsightly; indecent; unseemly; unbecoming
to wave; to shake; to sprinkle; to throw (dice); to cast (actor); to allocate (work); to turn down (someone)
until (a time); till; to (a place or person); as far as; to (an extent); up to
to go uninvited; to call on without an invitation; to barge in on; to throng to; to crowd into; to converge upon
in the first place; to begin with; after all; anyway; beginning; start
-ness; indicates assertion; come (on); come now; er; um; indicates scrutiny, critique or mistrust
thing; object; one's things; possessions; things; something; quality
where; what place; how much (long, far); what extent
it is assuredly that ...; can say with confidence that ...
as expected; sure enough; after all (is said and done); in the end; too; also
-like; sort of; similar to; resembling
youngster; neophyte; greenhorn
no good; not serving its purpose; hopeless; wasted; cannot; must not
tightly (holding on); firmly; strongly (built); solidly; properly; well
to resign; to retire; to quit; to leave (one's job, etc.)
what; how many; many; a lot of; several; a few
to be caught in; to be stuck in; to stop by; to drop in for a short visit; to get mixed up in (trouble); to get entangled in (a problem); to fall for (a trick)
why; how; for what reason
wife (esp. one's own wife); court lady; female court attache; (arch.) woman (esp. as a love interest)
to lose heart; to lose interest; to become stale (i.e. of a carbonated beverage); to go flat; to lose focus; to let one's guard down
to go; to move (towards); to move through; to travel across; to go (well, badly, etc.); to proceed; to do (in a particular way)
human being; human; person; character (of a person)
one by one; each; every; at intervals of
to change; to be transformed; to move to; to be different; to be uncommon
little by little; bit by bit