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a bit
Jude was having a bit of a crisis (37); I did him a bit of a favour
(HP 58)
actually
'Men have these desires eating them all the time...'Actually, Shaz,
I' m just cooking pasta' (19)
arm
Mark was drumming his fingers on the arm of the sofa (22)
beyond
By this time I was beyond late (37)
come round
'Can I see you tonight?' 'Um, well, Mark's coming round.' (13)
compromise
I cannot compromise my journalistic integrity (31)
cook
the fire was ready and they had just started cooking eggs and sausages
when...
failure
'Do you think we'd better call out for a pizza?', I said, feeling a
failure (22)
filthy
She gave me a filthy look (40)
fine
'I'm fine. How are you?' (35)
flight
Harry followed Ron up three more flights of stairs (HP 53)
fried
I will make him a fried breakfast (3)
fun
he said nothing was any fun without me (381)
go
(on the phone) 'I'd better let you go if you've got someone there...'
(35)
God
'My wife just told she wants a separation..'Good God. Giles.' (24)
great
-Do I look that fat ? – No, you look great (40)
hopeless
'Bertha's got lost plenty of times...' 'Oh, Bertha's hopless, all right,'
said Percy (58)
journey
Have a safe journey(160)
lightning
lightning flashed across the sky as their carriage came to a halt;
he was struck by~
line
'What did she say?' 'She said you were a free spirit...' The line broke
up for a moment (34); 'I'd quite like to have a baby and see my line extended..'
(216)
loss
For a moment was at a loss. Advising one's own father is difficult
(37)
march
he picked up the boys and marched them out of the church (399)
monotone
'I'm never going to have any children,' she was monotoning... (38)
now
'Don't worry. Be happy. Now. D'you want to take a couple of packets
of minestrone with you?'(149)
OK
Have arranged to see Jude tomorrow night, which seemed to go down OK
(13)
out
'I just called Stacy and he hasn't called back.' 'Well, maybe he's
out.' (23)
over
The wilderness years are over..have been in functional relationship
with
adult male (3)
own
I waxed my own legs since it was too late to book an appointment
policy
..had better read papers to brief self about New Labour policy...(10)
purple
Uncle Vernon's face purpled once more
row
It was all turning into a hideous row when we realized it was ridiculous
(20)
send off
'If he hadn't been sent off we would not have been subjected to the
penalty ~' (120)
sit
The Whites' house sat on two acres' of green lawn
sport
she was sporting a gold shirt (39)
state
I found Jude in a state, extrapolating huge dooms from small incidents
(38)
stood
He glanced at his watch and stood. "I gotta go."
sugar
'Would you care for a...' 'Yeah. Cup of tea. Four sugars.' (30)
there
I sat down, my hands folded primly over my knee. 'There, there. Now
come on, have a drink of this and just relax.' (276)
thunder
we could hear the rumble of thunder/ thunder rumbling in the distance
too
-I'm not staring at anyone, you idiot. – You are too! – Shut up
trade
the village pub did a roaring trade that night
war
'Always thought he was unfriendly' '...he had a hard war, he likes
the quiet life'
well
''How many takes diving into the lake did you have to do?' 'Well. The
underwatershots were a tank in Ealing studios.' (171)
'Don't you find the language barrier a problem with your girlfriend?' 'Well,
she speaks very good English.' (175)
work
'Surely you're going to say good bye?' Uncle Vernon's face worked furiously
(47)
worry
Harry was on the verge of telling Ron but didn't want to worry him
just now (60)
Study the meet-entry from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary, 6th edition. CD-ROM edition 2000, and then go on to match the meet-examples under B) with one of the senses (1 to 10) in the ALD entry. Where this is not possible, give your own definition in English.
by chance: 1 [no passive] to be in the same place as sb by chance and talk
to them:
[V] I hope we’ll meet again soon. • [VN] Did you meet anyone in town?
by arrangement: 2 [no passive] to come together formally in order to discuss
sth:
[V] The committee meets on Fridays. • [VN] The Prime Minister met other European
leaders for talks.
3 [no passive] to come together socially after you have arranged it:
[V] Let’s meet for a drink after work. • [VN] We’re meeting them outside
the theatre at 7.
4 [VN] to go to a place and wait there for a particular person to arrive:
Will you meet me at the airport? • The hotel bus meets all incoming flights.
for the first time: 5 [no passive] to see and know sb for the first time;
to be introduced to sb: [VN] Where did you first meet your husband? • (especially
BrE) Pleased to meet you. • (AmE) Nice meeting you. • There’s someone I want
you to meet. • [V] I don’t think we’ve met.
in contest: 6 [no passive] to play, fight, etc. together as opponents in
a competition: [V, VN] Sampras and Agassi met in last year’s final. • Sampras
met Agassi in last year’s final.
experience sth: 7 [VN] to experience sth, often sth unpleasant; SYN COME
ACROSS, ENCOUNTER: Others have met similar problems. • How she met her death
will probably never be known.
touch / join: 8 to touch sth; to join: [V] The curtains don’t meet in the
middle. • [VN] That’s where the river meets the sea. • His hand met hers.
satisfy: 9 [VN] to do or satisfy what is needed or what sb asks for:
How can we best meet the needs of all the different groups? • Until these
conditions are met we cannot proceed with the sale. • I can’t possibly meet
that deadline.
pay: 10 [VN] to pay sth: The cost will be met by the company.
1. “How many kids do you have?” “Two,” Emily said. “Kate and Peter. She´s at a friend´s house but he´s here, studying. I´ll bring him out in a minute to meet you.”
6 Their eyes met across the room and it was love at first sight./p>
11 "Why, that's how tornadoes are formed. A cold front and a warm front meet and the cold front is on top. “
12 . He needed more time before committing himself to expenditure he might not be able to meet.
36 As if to meet the criticisms, 500 prisoners were sent to refugee camps...
43 Cronenberg's deadpan acting met Berlin approval.
45 It is clear that no systematization of narrative forms can meet both the demands of theory and of interpretation equally ...
54 ...the consulting partners met growing competition from specialist firms...
55 I could not meet the playful curiosity of her eyes at all…
59 Davies-Jones met Lynley's eyes squarely.
72 ...the fact that despite his age and their never having met except in letters there is something indescribably sacred and precious between them
76 The relief force met fierce resistance from the Tamil Tigers...
86 He says if you can phone to say what train you're catching, someone will meet you...
101 He had hardly met her and he disliked the thought of handing over house keys to a comparative stranger.
102 "She's met her match," she said.
105 ...she took her her hands away and put them in her dressing-gown pocket. The letter met her fingers.
117 ...the authorial narrator, as we meet him in Tom Jones or The Magic Mountain...
132 Carker is oppressed by presentiments of death and actually meets his fate at the end of this chapter.
136 ...going up the hill toward Avon, and there he suddenly met his end and found his peace in the grille of a gravel truck.
140 when he'd been away on an unusually difficult trip, Sarah had met his plane in New York.
145 If a horse meets the first obstacle right, the others come in his stride.
160 ...threatening to kill them and himself unless his demands were met.>
176 "It's me, Vic. Can I come up?" She met me at the door to her apartment wrapped in a bright red dressing gown...
179 ...she'd race to meet my train if I came home for the weekend
182 It wasn't a bad birthday, it just didn't meet my expectations, and I felt let down.
186...the sight that met my eyes when I drew the curtain aside froze my limbs.
199 "...your mortgage payments are not easy for you to meet."
202 The Nechako River winds its way to meet the Fraser at Prince George.
203 He stopped where the access road met the old fort's entrance route.
213 His face...has eyebrows that almost meet.
214 "Well, I'll have the limousine there to meet the six o'clock flight."
216 (a grammar) must meet the challenge offered by any acceptable sentence that appears.
218 Speculators wanted a government capable of meeting the Indian threat.
224 While Julian got her a drink, she said in a friendly tone : `Let's see, I don't think we've met, have we? I'm so bad at names.'
226 The UN declared that Iraq had failed to meet its obligations.
227 The Greek and Roman proverbs which Erasmus recorded and explained met the Renaissance taste for ethical precepts.
228 She is barely able to meet expenses on what Brian gives her...
247 I walked to the manse. When I got there Mrs Allan met me at the door.
248 How can we help students understand the new words they meet?
249 ... the tiger knew it was better to meet the bulls than the cows with their
calves (Kipling, Jungle Book)
250 Julian met the remark with a scowl.
251 But when she walked into the kitchen it was to meet a disturbing sight.
252 If the relative pronoun is a prepositional complement, we meet a further possibility...
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