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24. leave

  1.  They left the house to go for a walk after tea.
  2. Only 6 per cent of children receive any further training when they leave school.
  3. Nobody left, nobody went away.
  4. The train leaves Cardiff at four in the afternoon.
  5. I helped him to some more whisky but left my own glass untouched.
  6. By the time I got to Sainsbury's, there weren't any tomatoes left.
  7. There aren't many gardeners like him left.
  8. I had very little money left.
  9. Masses and masses of food was left over.
  10. She's on a year's leave from Hunter College.
  11. I glimpsed a bright flash of gold on the left.
  12. He waved a piece of paper in his left hand.
  13. At last she thanked them and left.
  14. All I know is that Michael and I never left the house.
  15. He left a note for her on the table.
  16. He left a note.
  17. I left my pack behind and took only a water bottle.
  18. ...leaves that had been blown off the trees.
  19. If I went away and left you in the flat, would you look after it?
  20. The husband is left to chain-smoke in the waiting-room.
  21. Leave the door open.
  22. When they heard I was leaving, they both came running out.
  23. They left her to lie on the wooden floor.
  24. Their children are left to play among the rubble.
  25. There's almost nowhere left to go.
  26. Nobody ever leaves the airport.
  27. I must leave fairly soon.
  28. I must leave fairly soon.
  29. She insisted that Jim must leave.
  30. Why could they not leave her alone?
  31. I shall be leaving as soon as I am ready.
  32. Until we have cured you, you won't be leaving here.
  33. You shan't leave without my permission.
  34. Will you please, at once, pack up and leave.
  35. Would you ask them to leave, please?
  36. I shall be leaving soon.
  37. I must leave fairly soon.
  38. I won't leave you. You can't make me!
  39. I cannot leave everything for him.
  40. I couldn't leave Hilary behind to cope on her own.
  41. He would rather have left it.
  42. She'd rather be left alone.
  43. She did not dare leave the path.
  44. I leave it with confidence in your hands, Emmanuel.
  45. The settlers have left the bay forever.
  46. My last train leaves Euston at 11.30.
  47. I'm leaving at the end of this week.
  48. Allister Sparks, formerly of the Dispatch, was leaving a local London paper to join Reuters.
  49. He left school at seventeen.
  50. Jack left after breakfast.
  51. My plane does not leave until tomorrow morning.
  52. He tried to leave quietly.
  53. On your left is the river.
  54. There was a gate on our left.
  55. The second train hits the rear of the last coach, and is thrown to the left.
  56. When the light changed they turned to the left and drove away.
  57. ...the black shapeless masses to the left and right of the road.
  58. We left the waterfall and climbed higher.
  59. He turned left and began strolling slowly down the street.
  60. She left a note for her on the table.
  61. The US ought to do everything within reason to encourage General Noriega to leave.
  62. I suggested that it was time to leave.
  63. `Leave me alone,' I snarled.
  64. `When do you leave?'*`I should be gone now.'*`Well, good-bye, Hamo.'
  65. She promised that she would not leave hospital until she was better.
  66. She decided that she would leave her money to him.
  67. We decided to leave the city the next day.
  68. I believe you ought to leave now.
  69. She had been told she could leave hospital.
  70. They'd arranged to leave at four o'clock.
  71. She turned and left the room.
  72. He mentioned his plans to her early one morning, before he left for the paddy fields.
  73. He had hardly got his eyes open before she told him that they were leaving.
  74. He slept alone, as he had done ever since he left Didcot.
  75. I stayed there talking to them until I saw Sam Ward leave the building.
  76. They had not spoken a word since leaving the party.
  77. You can leave if you like.
  78. If I ever get out of this alive, I'll never leave you again.
  79. The older men would find it difficult to get a job if they left the farm.
  80. If you are to escape, you must leave me and go on alone.
  81. He left it where it lay.
  82. He had no right to run off and leave her alone, just as if she was someone of no importance at all.
  83. Sir Denis, who is 78, has let it be known that much of his collection is to be left to the nation.
  84. ...the woman who Muller left his money to.
  85. I want to leave, and yet I feel obliged to stay.
  86. We need to persuade more drivers to leave their cars at home and to use the train instead.
  87. The women were asked to leave. Some of them refused.
  88. Only small pines are left. Many of these have twisted and stunted shapes.
  89. It's really fabulous. Do you think that there are any other comparable tombs left at all?
  90. It was then that I recalled that I had left my wristwatch up in the saloon.
  91. Never feed your rabbit raw potatoes that have gone green*they contain a poison. Similarly, never feed it rhubarb leaves.

23. try

  1.  Bruno gave it a try.
  2. The male Shelducks fight fiercely, each trying to seize the other's long neck in its beak.
  3. I am willing to try.
  4. ...parents trying to act in a responsible manner.
  5. The third child tries to outdo the first and second.
  6. ...trying to think of a way to stop him.
  7. Try not to make so much noise.
  8. If the door is locked, I will try to break in.
  9. Kroop tried to talk her out of it.
  10. I tried to ad-lib a joke.
  11. Castle tried to read.
  12. They had been trying to read.
  13. I remember promising that I would try.
  14. I'll try and answer the question.
  15. Try and get a torch or a light, it's terribly dark down here.
  16. Try not to worry.
  17. Oh hello. Can you help me? I've been trying to get a London number for ten minutes and I can't get through.
  18. I think you ought to try a different approach.
  19. You ought to try a different approach.
  20. I'm determined to try.
  21. We're trying to create a more democratic society.
  22. We'll try somewhere else tomorrow.
  23. The farmer just laughed and rode away. So the next week I tried my luck at another farm.
  24. ...trying to boost police morale during a heated battle with rioters.
  25. We try to keep people informed by post during September.
  26. He tried to leave quietly.
  27. I tried to reach you at home several times.
  28. Thousands of tourists stood watching or milled around trying to get closer.
  29. I rushed in and tried to pull the dogs apart.
  30. `You have to keep trying, Mabel,' he said.
  31. I promised that I would try to phone her.
  32. If she is ambitious, don't try to hold her back.
  33. Unless you've tried it, you can't imagine how pleasant it is.
  34. If I were innocent, I'd rather be tried here; if guilty, in America.
  35. They have tried to limit such imports in order to protect their members' jobs.
  36. We are traditional insofar as we do traditional sketches, but we try and do them about original ideas.
  37. They were so surprised they didn't try to stop him.
  38. These birds have such small wings that they cannot get into the air even if they try.
  39. Some members of the staff couldn't handle Murray's condition, hard though they tried.
  40. The treatment, which is being tried by researchers at four hospitals, has helped patients who have failed to respond to other remedies.
  41. Surprised at my reaction, she tried to console me.
  42. I try and see it their way, but I can't.
  43. We can try to increase the intelligence of our domestic animals or evolve wholly new ones with much higher intelligence.
  44. Soldiers tried to clear road obstructions and remove flags and graffiti.
  45. Isaacs didn't give up. He tried and tried, but he kept getting unhelpful replies.
  46. I decided to try Newmarket. I soon found a job there.
  47. Then try redistributing the items under headings such as I've suggested.
  48. They couldn't help each other, and it was ridiculous to try.
  49. It was difficult trying to talk to her.

 

22. feel

  1.  I couldn't feel anger against him.
  2. A second group are those parents who feel that they were too harsh.
  3. The student should feel that the essay belongs to him or her.
  4. His friend looked as miserable as he felt himself.
  5. She felt in charge of her own affairs.
  6. Health and education are matters that most voters feel strongly about.
  7. I feel cold.
  8. ...her tight, pale-green felt cape.
  9. He made me feel like a complete idiot.
  10. We felt hot, tired, and thirsty.
  11. He still feels like a child.
  12. It's a fairly common feeling.
  13. He began to feel utterly miserable.
  14. Her hand felt different from David's.
  15. We feel quite differently about each of our children.
  16. He could hardly have felt more of a fool than he did at that moment.
  17. I feel a bit of a fraud.
  18. I don't want the Jews to feel I've slighted them.
  19. Come and see me whenever you feel depressed.
  20. She felt her grip tightening.
  21. Then he felt himself being snatched upright and shoved roughly across a flat space.
  22. She felt her hair rise on the back of her neck.
  23. I do feel sorry for Roger.
  24. How are you feeling today?
  25. How did you feel when you stood up in front of the class?
  26. Marsha rarely felt hungry.
  27. I felt that I would like to wake her up.
  28. The farmer will feel more responsible towards his workers.
  29. You will not feel much love for him at the moment.
  30. I could feel my heart bumping.
  31. He could hardly have felt more ashamed of himself.
  32. I don't feel British anymore. Not as much as I used to.
  33. I feel heavy. I do. I feel drowsy.
  34. I'm already feeling tense.
  35. She's always felt that films should be entertaining.
  36. I've made some poor decisions lately, but I'm feeling much better now.
  37. The drive increased the fatigue she had been feeling for hours.
  38. What does it show us that we haven't already felt?
  39. For the first time Anne Marie felt frightened.
  40. It took me a month to lose that feeling of being a spectator.
  41. Sometimes I feel that anywhere, just anywhere, would be better than this.
  42. He felt that he had to do something.
  43. He didn't know whether to feel glad or sorry at his dismissal.
  44. I felt I should consult my family.
  45. I feel better now I've talked to you.
  46. He never says a word unless he feels he's being threatened in some way.
  47. No matter how I'm playing, I always get that special feeling.
  48. I couldn't feel anger against him because I liked him too much.
  49. He feels himself to be dependent to the extent that he is not free to question decisions affecting his daily life.
  50. She felt as if she had a fever.
  51. I felt as if I were the centre of the universe.
  52. Sometimes you may feel too frail too cope with things, in which case do them as soon as it is convenient.
  53. He pranced about, feeling very important indeed.
  54. Feeling a little foolish, Pluskat hung up.
  55. I did not feel terribly shocked, having expected him to take the easiest way out.
  56. About twice a month, enough evidence having accumulated, the police would feel obliged to stage a raid.
  57. I'm only 63, but I feel a hundred.
  58. I want to leave, and yet I feel obliged to stay.
  59. I felt that the new plant should bear his name, for he, not I, had done the work.
  60. Call me if you feel lonely or depressed.
  61. They feel both anxiety and joy.
  62. I felt not jubilation but sadness.
  63. Guy had studied classics and philosophy at Oxford and always felt a sort of lingering interest in the latter subject.
  64. People will feel the need to be informed and they will go wherever they can to get this information.
  65. I hated the big formal dances and felt very awkward and out of place at the one or two such events I attended.
  66. `How do you feel?'*`Strange.'
  67. It was felt that there had been some duplication of effort.
  68. There seem to be fewer men around to whom I feel I ought to defer. By the same token, there are more and more men who come to me for advice.
  69. I know just how you feel.
  70. It had always been felt that foster parents should make no profit*the job should be done for love alone.

 

21. seem

  1. A moment later, his heart seemed to stop as he sensed the sudden movement of someone rushing into the hut.
  2. Nobody seems disturbed about cover-ups when they are essential to the conduct of a war.
  3. The parents are not afraid to be firm about those matters that seem important to them.
  4. Nobody seemed amused.
  5. They seemed capable of winning their first game of the season.
  6. His mind seemed to have become incapable of any thought.
  7. The houses seemed like mansions.
  8. It made her seem less like another of Theodore's possessions.
  9. She seems very pleasant.
  10. It seemed that Henry had not been careful enough.
  11. The land seemed almost as dark as the water.
  12. The moral code would seem to be more or less the same throughout the world.
  13. The picture seems at first glance chaotic.
  14. The station seemed a very small one.
  15. The children seemed frightened.
  16. Mary was breathing quietly and seemed to be asleep.
  17. The quarrel of the night before seemed forgotten.
  18. They seemed happy.
  19. He always seemed a controlled sort of man.
  20. It seemed such a terrible thing to happen.
  21. He seemed in excellent health.
  22. They seemed to have disappeared.
  23. A little knowledge does seem to be a dangerous thing.
  24. They seemed not to notice me.
  25. It didn't seem to bother them at all.
  26. I may have seemed to be overreacting.
  27. They seem to be working from dawn to dusk.
  28. It seemed easier to shave only every second day.
  29. He seemed to have grown a lot since he last wore it.
  30. They seem to be working from dawn till dusk.
  31. One student commented: `He seems to know his material very well.'
  32. She seemed to like me.
  33. It seemed that he had lost his chance to win.
  34. It seems to me to be a remarkable pronouncement.
  35. It seemed to him that I was not yet suitable.
  36. It seemed that she had not been careful enough.
  37. It seems probable that the world can go on producing enough food for everyone.
  38. Even if we do not resort to such dramatic measures, it seems likely that there will be many exciting opportunities in the future.
  39. Most people no matter who they are, seem to have at least one.
  40. As Celia had gone to school, it seemed a good time for Lady Ravenscroft to invite her sister to stay.
  41. So rapid is the rate of progress that advance seems to be following advance on almost a monthly basis.
  42. Kunta continued sleeping in Omoro's hut for the next seven nights*not that anyone seemed to notice or care.
  43. He entered his name for the Boxing Day race, which to Belinda's delight he subsequently won. She seemed for some reason to regard the exploit as reflecting credit on herself.
  44. They lasted for hundreds of years. On a human time scale, such a period seems an eternity.
  45. Won't it seem odd if I have no luggage?
  46. From the photographs it seems clear my mother was no beauty.
  47. There seems little doubt that he was insane.
  48. There seems to have been some carelessness recently.
  49. Funnily enough, old people seem to love bingo.
  50. There seem to be fewer men around to whom I feel I ought to defer. By the same token, there are more and more men who come to me for advice.

20. work

  1.  Let us work together in peace.
  2. I went to Glasgow University and then I went down to London to work for a psychiatrist.
  3. I worked in Woolworths at Christmas one year.
  4. `Could I speak to Sue, please?'*`I'm sorry, she doesn't work here now.'
  5. Last year I worked seven days a week fourteen hours a day.
  6. He has worked out a scheme for an economic lifeline by purchasing land.
  7. Working with the young is stimulating and full of surprises.
  8. `Is Sue there ?'*`I'm sorry, she doesn't work here now.'
  9. It is hot in London; but I myself can work better when it's hot.
  10. They were both still working at their universities.
  11. I'll come as soon as these men have finished their work.
  12. There is some evidence that the system works.
  13. You will never have to do any more work.
  14. That very next afternoon he was working in his room.
  15. I spent the whole of last year working there.
  16. Work out how much you can afford to pay each of them.
  17. They have done a vast amount of hard work.
  18. ...a very great deal of work.
  19. A tenth of the working population will be writing material for computers.
  20. Half of our work is to design programmes.
  21. Of the people who work here, half are French and half are English.
  22. I have been out of work for more than 12 months.
  23. They need people to work in the factories.
  24. I am, of course, familiar with your work.
  25. Unfortunately, the work visible in this location is a late-nineteenth-century restoration.
  26. They need people to work in the factories.
  27. I am not the only woman to have found that part-time work has its drawbacks.
  28. ...those still working.
  29. He applied himself to learning how Parliament worked.
  30. Work experience allows students to make more effective career decisions.
  31. His work was to take photographs while flying over Germany.
  32. Over the next few months their work pattern changed.
  33. An attack of malaria can keep a man off work for three days.
  34. These girls have to work hard because they were born poor.
  35. My father worked as a draughtsman in a shipyard.
  36. They regarded manual work as degrading.
  37. Do they do the work themselves?
  38. I've never done so much work in all my life.
  39. I shan't get much work done tonight.
  40. Clerical work may be available for two students who want to learn about publishing.
  41. To identify a poison you must be able either to carry out a chemical analysis or observe the poison at work on the victim.
  42. A more junior member of staff ought to have done the work.
  43. I am having medical treatment and I'm unable to work.
  44. We have to look more closely at the record of their work together.
  45. People don't work as hard as they used to.
  46. My dad works in Saudi Arabia.
  47. I'm working as a British Council Officer.
  48. We're working with Robert Hardy just at this moment, recording an autumn series.
  49. She had lost her job as a real estate agent and was working as a waitress.
  50. The doctor had been working alone.
  51. He often agreed to work quite cheaply.
  52. In the immense shed where we worked, something was always going wrong.
  53. For many years, the TUC has been advocating child care facilities at work.
  54. By March 1990, he will have been working for this organization for twelve years.
  55. In future she'll have to take sedentary work of some sort.
  56. We've been working on it for over two years now. And it still isn't finished.
  57. I haven't set any work yet. I suppose I shall some day.
  58. They seem to be working from dawn to dusk.
  59. I can't work full time. I only work in the afternoons, I have lectures in the mornings.
  60. Thousands of slave labourers worked night and day to build the fortifications.
  61. Ten gardeners used to work this land, winter and summer.
  62. I'd been working in London since January at a firm called Kendalls.
  63. After 1929 I concentrated on canvas work.
  64. They seem to be working from dawn till dusk.
  65. He has worked hard.
  66. They worked harder, they were more honest.
  67. Old people work hardest.
  68. I greatly enjoyed working with them.
  69. He was having to work awfully hard.
  70. He works reasonably hard.
  71. My father worked on a farm.
  72. The young men hated working underground.
  73. I would like to work somewhere abroad.
  74. Outstanding examples of her work are included in an exhibition at the National Museum of Film and Photography in Bradford.
  75. He worked as a truck driver.
  76. I said that I would rather work in the forest.
  77. Someone asked me if the work was going well.
  78. The system appears to work impartially.
  79. It was never clear why she worked all her life as a domestic servant.
  80. We'll support them till they find work.
  81. Once convinced of the necessity of a move he worked with persistence and diplomacy until the college found a new home.
  82. When removing a stain, work from the edge inwards so as not to enlarge the area affected.
  83. Sensible, interested mothers still play a big part in their children's lives, despite working and having a full-time nanny.
  84. We have to make it work in the way that we want it to.
  85. In theory anyone who lives or works in the area may be at risk.
  86. Karen Blixen was being feted by everyone who knew her work.
  87. ...pieces of work that we give a mark to.
  88. ...the place where they work.
  89. I had worked out a rotating arrangement whereby every person would have a different roommate in each city.
  90. I was told my work was unsatisfactory, at which point I submitted my resignation.
  91. People survived by sharing out what money they could get from cattle-work.
  92. He has been successful in Hollywood and has worked with such directors as Norman Jewison and Richard Attenborough.
  93. There were men and women working in the fields.
  94. My mother and father worked hard.
  95. I felt that the new plant should bear his name, for he, not I, had done the work.
  96. The concert began with his Second Piano Sonata. This is a work that has usually been considered as fundamentally negative.
  97. It not only pleased him to work with them, but the few pence thus earned gave him an enormous sense of importance.
  98. The unemployment in the rural areas is often thought to be due entirely to population growth, and no doubt this is an important factor. But those who hold this view still have to explain why additional people cannot do additional work.
  99. `And did it work?'*`No, I'm afraid it didn't.'
  100. It was meeting Peter that really started me off on this new line of work.
  101. It's fun working for him.
  102. There were men and women working in the fields with horses.
  103. The demands of work can cause gaps in regular attendance. On top of that, many students are offered no extra lessons during the vacations.
  104. It doesn't work, does it?

 

19. ask

  1.  May I ask why Stephen's here?
  2. The children asked Simon if he would give them some money.
  3. ...the questions you had to ask yourselves.
  4. Ask anyone. They'll tell you.
  5. `To whom, if I may ask, are you engaged to be married?' `To Daniel Orton.'
  6. I asked her who she had been talking to.
  7. They had a lot of diamonds, and they asked her if she could possibly get these diamonds to Britain.
  8. Permission should be asked before visitors are invited.
  9. She paid double the sum they asked for.
  10. Don't be afraid to ask questions.
  11. If you find that the white wine is not cold enough for you, ask for some ice to be put in it.
  12. `You ask too many questions, Sam'.
  13. I would like to ask you a couple of questions.
  14. I asked for two coffees with milk.
  15. I'm going to ask you thirty questions.
  16. For the facilities available here, I must ask for a fee.
  17. Gus asked me whether I'd like to have dinner with him. I accepted.
  18. We Americans must ask ourselves several questions.
  19. I'm just asking for information.
  20. We do ask people to keep in touch with us.
  21. She wishes to ask a favour of you.
  22. I was asked to come for a few days to help them.
  23. `Why didn't you ask me?'*`I was afraid to.'
  24. Could I ask you a few questions?
  25. She asked us to her house which was very small and untidy.
  26. There are many questions we cannot answer, but must we not at least ask them?
  27. Every day I'd ring up home and asked if they'd changed their minds.
  28. Would you ask them to leave, please?
  29. Can I ask a question?
  30. `Can I change this?' I asked the box office lady, offering her my ticket.
  31. May I ask what your name is?
  32. I would like to ask you one question.
  33. You should ask Norry about this.
  34. I must ask her about that.
  35. Perhaps I could just ask you this...
  36. I wanted to ask, Mr Nicholson, what was the effect of that newsreel on you?
  37. Last month, Mr Hurd asked his officials to report back to him.
  38. Sooner or later he'll ask you to join him there.
  39. I remember the next day at school going round asking the boys if they'd ever seen a ghost.
  40. We had to ask three times.
  41. I've been asking you about these doors for months.
  42. She would ask him later, when she knew him better.
  43. `Have you met him?' I asked.
  44. He asked if you would be able to call and see him.
  45. `How's it all going?' Derek asked.
  46. After a long silence he asked: `What is your name?'
  47. He smiled and asked, `Are you her grandson?'
  48. `What are you doing?' Sarah asked.
  49. I asked if I could stay with them.
  50. He asked me where I was going.
  51. I was asked whether I wanted to stay at a hotel or at his home.
  52. She asked whether the servants were still there.
  53. She asked him if his parents spoke French.
  54. Someone asked me if the work was going well.
  55. I asked Professor Fred Bailey whether he agreed.
  56. A policeman asked me whether he could be of help.
  57. The barman didn't ask whether or not they were over eighteen.
  58. They asked whether Britain was or was not a Christian country.
  59. I asked how they liked the film.
  60. It never occurred to me to ask who put it there.
  61. She leaned over the stairs and called down to ask what had happened.
  62. I asked why.
  63. He asked where I was going.
  64. People ask me if I can lend them fifty dollars.
  65. He asked if I would answer some questions.
  66. I asked to see the manager.
  67. He asked me whether I would help him.
  68. I asked him what to do.
  69. Brody asked what happened.
  70. Madeleine asked if she might borrow a pen and some paper.
  71. He asked a number of questions.
  72. I asked him about the horses.
  73. It often happens that a mother asks for advice and does not get it.
  74. No sooner had he asked the question than the answer came to him.
  75. If I asked for something I got it.
  76. Nobody gets anything unless they ask for it.
  77. If anybody had asked me, I could have told them what happened.
  78. If I were asked to define my condition, I'd say `bored'.
  79. If in doubt, ask at your local library.
  80. Nobody said a thing except that one or two asked me if I was better.
  81. She asked friends whose opinion she respected.
  82. Her eyes glistening with tears, she stood up and asked the Council: `What am I to do?'
  83. Ask anybody nearing the age of retirement what they think.
  84. I asked if I could borrow her bicycle but she refused.
  85. The women were asked to leave. Some of them refused.
  86. Will that be enough? If so, do not ask for more.
  87. She asked him to wait while she considered. He did so.
  88. `Bit of an unfair question to ask me, because I'm biased.'*`Thought you might be.'
  89. At last he agreed to do what I asked him to.
  90. Some water boards will replace washers free of charge, if you ask.
  91. `I don't mind telling you what I know.'*`You needn't. I'm not asking you for it.'
  92. `Do you ever visit a doctor?' I asked her.*`No. We can't afford to.'
  93. `Can I speak to you?' I asked, undaunted.*`Why?'*`It's important.'
  94. I asked why.
  95. `Cup of coffee?' Lionel asked, kindly.
  96. Sanders asked if such men could be relied on to keep their mouths shut.
  97. People who normally consulted her began to ask other people's advice instead.
  98. We will continue to expand our economy. As for the US, we will ask that they take steps to reduce their budget deficit.
  99. Actually, Dan, before I forget, she asked me to tell you about my new job.
  100. Above all, do not be too proud to ask for advice.

 

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