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Please be patient!
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Help! I Can't See My Post!
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He looked after them ever <since> <after> he moved there.
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... far more birds than I thought [were] in my immediate vicinity
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Breaking In The Habit
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"A person" vs "someone"
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Face to Face meeting / meeting for
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Hand over / Ensure
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meaning or root of word: inundate
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emsr2d2
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(Etc./etc.) (capitalisation in parentheses)
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kadioguy
there are some benefits of/to reading customer reviews
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testimonial dinners: “I know people who have a lot of money, and they get testimonial dinners and hospital wings named after them,” he continued.
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Honestly, I don't like to separate my family members
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... the scale of which has been likened to Cold War-era investments
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These statements have not been evaluated ...
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We <were preparing> <prepared> to rob the bank there until you got involved in all that nonsense.
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He was very tired because he'd been working hard all day yesterday.
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National team in gymnastics
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I'm no hero/I'm not a hero
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emsr2d2
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Michaelll
How many times has it happened over/in the last/past three weeks?
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Michaelll
When the Sun <rose> <had risen>, he was gone.
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Coffee Break
a little tentative cross-touch
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