Common English Phrases and Sentence Examples
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- Martin is not as old as Peter/Jane.
- She liked everyone apart from her boss.
- My brother is always borrowing my things without asking.
- You can borrow my computer as long as you look after it.
- Phil knows how to get away with cheating at cards.
- "This car doesn’t belong to me," she said.
- I was absolutely amazed by the number of tourists I saw.
- Sue must have been pleased when she saw...
- There is someone at the door, but it can't be Kate because it’s too early.
- I am here on behalf of the government.
- He is so relaxed; he must have been on holiday.
- She has been working for this company since she was 18.
- Prague is a bit of an expensive city.
- The outdoor exhibition had to be called off because...
- Caroline couldn’t carry on working anymore because she was too tired.
- I will take my CD player in case we want to listen to music.
- Why don’t we go to the cinema this evening?
- It’s time you got down to some serious work at college.
- My little cousin wants to be a driver when he leaves school.
- She has done a great deal in the garden.
- They love each other very much.
- There seem to be fewer tourists around this year.
- I haven’t seen Jenny for ten years.
- I have always been good at learning languages.
- Have you got a computer at home?
- I don’t know how to speak Mandarin Chinese.
- She cleaned the house by herself last week.
- Mike doesn’t know how to use a camcorder.
- She can’t have left because her coat is still here.
- It snowed hard in Vienna yesterday.
- I have hardly any money left after my holiday.
- I find it is more difficult to study as I become older.
- There has been a sharp increase in prices.
- Mr. Thompson has just phoned to say he will be late.
- Rap music is less popular than it was ten years ago.
- One hundred years ago, traffic moved a little more slowly than today.
- Sally has been living here for ten years.
- There is a lack of volunteers to do the job.
- There wasn’t much interest among the children in what the guide said.
- I painted this room by myself, unfortunately.
- Tom must be tired because he is yawning a lot.
- He may have been having a shower, so he couldn’t hear the bell.
- We haven’t met for a long time.
- Only a small number of staff attended the meeting.
- I’m hungry because I have not eaten for five hours.
- Extra staff is taken on at the weekends.
- We went by train to Paris.
- We watched a documentary about Scotland on television.
- Don’t worry! I’ll get the truth out of him.
- I live on my own in this house.
- The holiday which gave me the most pleasure was the one we had...
- I don’t know why people like golf so much.
- Does he play the piano well?
- There’s no point in Tania seeing the manager.
- Jane decided to put time into her work until the last minute.
- I think he’s quite a nice person.
- My home town is quite a big industrial city.
- The Germans have a very good reputation for making very good cars.
- He looked for a new car as soon as he possibly could.
- Kate is a better swimmer than Lucy.
- Prices have increased steadily over the past year.
- I still have to visit the National Museum.
- I didn’t succeed in convincing Tom to take up stamp collecting.
- I’m too unfit to go in for a marathon.
- We had trouble writing the story.
- I don’t think he is telling the truth about what happened.
- He was offered some work but he turned it down because he was...
- It is unlikely that there will be any more...
- When I was younger, my father and I used to play football together.
- It wasn’t until she left that I realized...
- You can go out when you have done what I want you to do.
- We aren’t sure where to find the information.
- I don’t know who I should believe.
- I don’t know who to talk to in the bank.
- Carlton’s books aren’t widely read these days.
- I wish I could go to the cinema tonight, but...