(1) Negotiators are due to meet later today to work out a compromise...
(2) It took me some time to work out what was causing this...
(3) It is proving hard to work out the value of bankrupt firms' assets...

(1) He has made free with the reading room after class.
(2) Let's go home together after class ( is over ).
(3) What do you want to do after class?

(1) He was going through a very difficult time...
(2) South Africa was going through a period of irreversible change.
(3) It was evident that someone had gone through my possessions.

(1) I ran away from home when I was sixteen...
(2) After his beating Colin ran away and hasn't been heard of since...
(3) She ran away with a man called McTavish last year...

(1) fall asleep, dream Township who insisted on boat Artemisia?
(2) Don't fall asleep at the switch when the job is offered to you.
(3) He lies down on the sofa and soon fall asleep.

(1) The most valuable item on show will be a Picasso drawing.
(2) Some of his paintings are on show in the local art gallery.
(3) There are as many as 300 new products on show.

(1) He could also turn on the style when the occasion demanded.
(2) But he could also turn on the style when the occasion demanded.
(3) They turn on their own kind and peck each other to death.

(1) There were 2,250 policemen on duty in and around the stadium.
(2) Extra staff had been put on duty.
(3) He's on duty twenty-four seven.

(1) I'm very much a loner — I never go out.
(2) Although they're expensive, they last forever and never go out of style.
(3) When we go out, girls are always giving me the evil eye.

(1) Two cables connect to each corner of the plate.
(2) A Good idea. You can connect to the internet in the cafe.
(3) connect to the meter and check as described above.

(1) Jim tried to figure out the cost.
(2) Instead of getting all riled up about this , we should try to figure out what to do.
(3) Please figure out the total cost.

(1) Sightseers may be a little overwhelmed by the crowds and noise.
(2) "Well," she said a little uneasily, "what is it?"
(3) Will you lend me your jacket for a little while?

(1) Students often travel hundreds of miles to get here.
(2) hundreds of tightly rolled newspapers were set aflame among the 50,000 crowd.
(3) Their soldiers had to retreat ignominiously after losing hundreds of lives.

(1) We eventually took off at 11 o'clock and arrived in Venice at 1.30.
(2) They need to expand the number of farmers who are involved if the scheme's going to really take off...
(3) In 1944, he met Edith Piaf, and his career took off.

(1) One said he could not see anything except the blue of the sky.
(2) That kind of money is no longer going about now.
(3) no longer trammel by his responsibility as chairman, he can say what he wish.

(1) The jury took 23 hours to bring in its verdict.
(2) Britain imposed fines on airlines which bring in passengers without proper papers.
(3) The firm decided to bring in a new management team.

(1) Stay in bed extra late or get up specially early.
(2) They have to get up early in the morning.
(3) She waited for him to get up, but he didn't move.

(1) They make compost out of all kinds of waste.
(2) In New Mexico all kinds of cuisines are represented.
(3) Adoption can fail for all kinds of reasons.

(1) This arrangement is quite satisfactory, so far as I am concerned.
(2) I deeply appreciate your kindness in coming so far to meet me.
(3) so far as I know, she has a faculty of housekeeping.

(1) They had put up with behaviour from their son which they would not have tolerated from anyone else.
(2) You'll have to put up with it.
(3) Why would anyone put up with a charade?

(1) You make friends with people and then make unreasonable demands so that they reject you.
(2) I don't want to make friends with indolent persons.
(3) make friends with him. He is a big - time businessman.

(1) We look for applicants who are numerate, computer-literate and energetic self-starters.
(2) They look for foods that are low in calories.
(3) We all need to look for ways to reduce our carbon footprint.

(1) She was ringing up her sale on an ancient cash register.
(2) The advertising agency rang up 1.4 billion dollars in yearly sales.
(3) I'll ring up to see if he's there.

(1) These filling stations are open day and night.
(2) day and night the policemen pace the streets in the holidays.
(3) Do you enjoy sleeping all hours of the day and night?

(1) The shop sells lipstick hair gel, and a whyole range of other cosmetics.
(2) He might get here in time, but I can't be sure.
(3) He'll show you what's what in time.

(1) He was a great deal interested in music.
(2) He has changed a great deal, so we're not as close as we used to be.
(3) They were careless, slouchy, and more or less pale from confinement.

(1) He did not particularly want to take up a competitive sport...
(2) He left a job in the City to take up farming...
(3) Mr de Garis's MP, Max Madden, took up the case...

(1) If they value these data, let them pay for them.
(2) I have had to pay for repairs to the house.
(3) The money is used by local authorities to pay for public services.

(1) Carried out a copy of the bmp picture can refer to the procedure!
(2) To refer to a device or an item of data by its address.
(3) The word Dutch is used to refer to the people, the language indigenous to the Netherlands.

(1) It owns self import and export right.
(2) Let's go right now before it's raining hard.
(3) A little luck wouldn't go amiss right now!

(1) Would you like to go for a walk with us?
(2) Let's go for a walk and give our minds a rest.
(3) It would be better to go for a walk than stay at home all alone.

(1) When setting out on a long walk, always wear suitable boots.
(2) He has achieved what he set out to do three years ago...
(3) We set out to find the truth behind the mystery.

(1) The plant is now in danger of extinction.
(2) Once complications are allowed to creep in, the outcome is in danger.
(3) It's a plant or animal that is in danger of extinction.

(1) For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?
(2) Do not hesitate to laugh at anything you find amusing.
(3) Lysenko gave a deep rumbling laugh at his own joke.