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your house; your home; your husband; your organization; you

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to let (someone) hear; to tell (e.g. a story); to make (someone) listen; to make (someone) understand; to grip (someone) with skilful singing, storytelling, etc.; to hold (someone) enchanted by

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police drama (television); detective drama

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to laugh; to smile; to sneer; to ridicule; to be dumbfounded; to be flabbergasted

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case; situation

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hello; good day; good afternoon

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Mr (junior); master; boy

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evening; dusk

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school

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to look forward to something

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it is assuredly that ...; can say with confidence that ...

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he; she; that guy

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suspicious; dubious; doubtful; unsure; untrustworthy; unreliable; strange

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to be fragrant; to smell (good); to stink; to smell (bad); to glow; to be bright

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good; excellent; fine; nice; pleasant; agreeable

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search (esp. in criminal investigations); investigation; inquiry; enquiry

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start; commencement; beginning; initiation

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to be decided; to be settled; to be unchanging; to be the same (as always); to be a fixed rule; to be destined; to be well executed (of a manoeuvre in a sport, game, etc.)

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good; advantage; sake; purpose; consequence; result

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if; in case; supposing

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to have a go; to try and do (something); to take a chance with something

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what are we going to do?; uh-oh; oh crap; what a mess; oh brother

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oh; ho; exclamation of surprise, admiration, etc.; hoo (owl call); toot (sound of a flute)

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we; us

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we

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various; all sorts of; variety of; (arch.) various colors (colours)

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to receive favor (favour); to be much obliged to someone; to be indebted

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yeah; you're right; that's right

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parfait

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to give (someone) a treat; to be extravagant; to live luxuriously; to be proud; to be haughty

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adds force or indicates command

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then; and then; and; if so; because then; if that's the case

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also; too; not ... either; (it's not possible) no matter what; although one might wish otherwise

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presence; sitting with; being with

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to hold in one's arms (e.g. a baby); to embrace; to have sex with; to make love to; to sit on (eggs); to brood

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seat; location (of a gathering, etc.); place; position; post

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was

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oh my god!; oh my gosh!; you got me!; wow!

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crisp (e.g. potato chip, fried fish, etc.); crunchy; grumpily; touchily; scratching

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twelve o'clock; noon; midnight

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here; this place; this point; here; these past ... (e.g. three years); these last ...

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appointment; rendezvous; date

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material (for a story, article, etc.); information; joke; jest; proof; evidence; (magician's) trick

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to rise; to go up; to enter (esp. from outdoors); to come in; to enter (a school); to advance to the next grade; to get out (of water)

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how many times?

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indicates supposition; if ... then; when; (typically after someone's name) indicates exasperation

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he; she; this; this one; Hey, you!; You bastard!

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to write; to compose; to pen; to draw; to paint

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one hour

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inspection; observation

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