company employee; office worker; white-collar worker
by the way; incidentally; sometimes; occasionally; precisely (at that time); exactly
to buy; to purchase; to value; to have a high opinion; to stir; to provoke
to receive; to take; to get somebody to do something; to have in one's pocket (a fight, match); to contract (a disease); to catch
to fit; to get into; to be fit for (a job, etc.); to be suited for; to fall into; to plunge into
captive; prisoner; victim (of love, etc.); slave (to one's lust, etc.)
to grow up; to become an adult
company; corporation; workplace
to return; to come home; to leave; to get home; to get to home plate
PC; personal computer; prestressed concrete; precast concrete; polycarbonate; political correctness; patrol car
every day; daily; day after day; days (e.g. good old days)
what!; oh; what the heck; what the; damn
-ness; indicates assertion; come; come now
to eat; to live on (e.g. a salary); to live off; to subsist on
to enter; to go into; to break into; to join; to enroll; to contain; to hold
to see; to look; to examine; to look over; to look after; to attend to; to experience
don't; do; hey; listen; now, ...; well, ...
scene; sight; scenario; setting
indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; regardless of; whether (or not)
personal; individual; private
to talk about; to speak of; to recite; to chant; to indicate; to show
is not; am not; are not; isn't it?
Now let's return to the main subject; To return from the digression,.. (in a conversation, speech, or story-telling)
how; in what way; why; for what reason; cannot possibly; no way
to think (about, of); to think over; to consider; to bear in mind; to think (that); to believe; to intend (to do)
indicates a question; or; whether or not; some- (e.g. something, someone); hmm; huh; very
explanation; exposition; description; account; caption; legend
right?; isn't it?; hey; say; you know; you see; will you?
year; counter for years (e.g. of an era), grades (e.g. school); period of an apprentice's contract (usu. ten years)
one day; (on) a certain day
thing; matter; incident; occurrence; circumstances; situation; work
always; all the time; never; usual; regular
like; similar to; as with; in the same way
to be clear (of a sight, sound, colour, etc.); to be bright; to be clear-headed; to be alert; to look upbeat; to be perky; to master (a skill)
to lead (a) life (usu. preceded by the type of life)