securing; obtaining; ensuring; belay; belaying
calculation; reckoning; count; forecast
soon; shortly; before long; nearly; almost
town; block; downtown; main street; street; road
real estate agent; realtor
same; similar; (just) like; equal
to discover; to find (e.g. an error in a book); to locate; to find (e.g. something missing); to be used to seeing; to be familiar with
slow; time-consuming; late (in the day); towards the end (of the day or night); later (than expected or usual); late
certainly; of course; even if; no matter (who, what, when, where, why, how); without even; without so much as; at the (least, earliest, etc.)
within; inside of; less than
to finish; to end; to merely result in something less severe than expected; to feel at ease; to feel unease or guilt for troubling someone; to be sorry
female proprietress (of a bar, etc.); mother; housewife; (female) pet owner; pet parent
to exchange (messages, greetings, arguments, etc.); to intersect; to cross; ... with one another; ... to each other
judicial scrivener; judicial clerk; person qualified to prepare legal documents, handle real-estate transactions, etc.
to be present (esp. during a birth); to be witness to
to be found; to be discovered
immediately; at once; soon; before long; easily; readily
to move; to stir; to operate; to run; to make a move; to take action; to be touched
today; this day; these days; recently; nowadays
always; all the time; never; usual; regular
early; a little earlier than usual; a little faster than usual; slightly quicker
something; some; somehow; for some reason; (is there) something (you want, etc.)
to misperceive visually; to misread; to mistake for something or somebody else
I'm sorry; my apologies; excuse me; pardon me
closing up shop (for the day); stopping business; going out of business
had better ...; had better not ...
verbal promise; one's word
to be in time (for); to serve (suit, meet) the purpose; to be good enough; to be enough
to act as an intermediary; to step in; to come between; to intervene; to interject
to forget something ever existed; to pretend something didn't happen; to put something behind one; to forgive (something)
how; in what way; why; for what reason; cannot possibly; no way
reckless; thoughtless; rash; ill-advised; impulsive; mad (e.g. scheme)
abrupt; sudden; unexpected
sometime; someday; one day; some time or other; the other day; in due course
also; too; not ... either; (it's not possible) no matter what; although one might wish otherwise
unreasonable; unnatural; impossible; forcible; forced; excessive (work, etc.); immoderate
to pass through; to pass by; to pass (of time); to elapse; to have expired; to have ended; to exceed
crowd of people; great number of people; in great numbers
to be in the news; to be talked about; to become a popular topic of conversation; to become the talk of the town; to become topical