(1) a concert hall/pianist
(2) They're in concert at Wembley Arena.
(3) a concert of music by Bach

(1) pedro got up every morning before daybreak.
(2) My friend pedro works in the post office.
(3) pedro took the money - box to the club.

(1) a sprig of holly
(2) People often decorate their houses with holly at Christmas.
(3) The room was lavishly decorated with tinsel and holly.

(1) She began to cry.
(2) It was beginning to snow.
(3) I was beginning to think you'd never come.

(1) Some horses become excited when they're in traffic.
(2) She waved excitedly as the car approached.
(3) An excited crowd of people gathered around her.

(1) The centre is open from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on weekdays.
(2) open weekdays from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
(3) If you want to avoid the crowds, it's best to come on a weekday...

(1) "I want to send a telegram." — "Fine, to whom?"
(2) Soldiers took away four people one of whom was later released.
(3) whom would it profit to terrify or to kill James Sinclair?

(1) I'd have to send tina on ahead with Rachael.
(2) Painful memories were dragged up for tina during the filming.
(3) tina as a child was a replica of her mother.

(1) isabel was expecting their baby in the New Year.
(2) You are mad, isabel. You should be locked up.
(3) isabel rose so abruptly that she knocked down her chair.

(1) I think your South american youth has prejudiced you.
(2) The american dollar finished the day up against foreign currencies.
(3) Before all this the island was populated by native american Arawaks.

(1) Paul asked tara out to dinner but she gave him the brush-off .
(2) tara is currently working on a solo album.
(3) tara mah home an'Ah is aimin'ter go back dar.

(1) We've all got problems of one kind or another.
(2) The room's too small. Let's see if they've got another one .
(3) I don't like this room. I'm going to ask for another.

(1) Why waste £50 when you could get it for free?
(2) I wasn't expecting you to do it for free...
(3) If you have any questions at all, please feel free to ask me.

(1) They were all dressed as clowns.
(2) The bomb was disguised as a package.
(3) She works as a courier.

(1) I'm off now. See you tomorrow.
(2) She's leaving tomorrow.
(3) (especially British English)They arrive a week tomorrow/tomorrow week (= after a week, starting from tomorrow) .

(1) She gives piano lessons.
(2) All new students are given lessons in/on how to use the library.
(3) I'm having/taking driving lessons.

(1) a human/female/male/naked body
(2) parts of the body
(3) His whole body was trembling.

(1) a research project
(2) a building project
(3) to set up a project to computerize the library system

(1) There is an ice lantern show in harbin every year in winter.
(2) They will setting out to harbin in next week.
(3) I have been in harbin for the past two years.

(1) Have some tea; it'll calm your nerves.
(2) His presence had a calming influence .
(3) Look, calm down! We'll find her.

(1) ted hated parties, even gatherings of people he liked individually.
(2) There has been a very one-sided account of her problems with ted.
(3) He began informally to handle ted's tax affairs for him.

(1) He spent the whole day writing.
(2) We drank a whole bottle each.
(3) The whole country (= all the people in it) mourned her death.

(1) How you can be so insensitive absolutely beats me.
(2) beat it before it's too late.
(3) Can you beat it; there was Graham Greene in Freetown and there was I on the other side of Africa.

(1) before lunch
(2) the day before yesterday
(3) The year before last he won a gold medal, and the year before that he won a silver.

(1) to issue/extend an invitation
(2) to accept/turn down/decline an invitation
(3) an invitation to the party

(1) a box of matches
(2) to strike a match (= to make it burn)
(3) to put a match to sth (= set fire to sth)

(1) staff training
(2) Few candidates had received any training in management.
(3) a training course

(1) We're open till 6 o'clock.
(2) Can't you wait till we get home?
(3) Just wait till you see it. It's great.

(1) an athletic figure/build
(2) a tall, slim athletic girl
(3) an athletic club/coach

(1) lisa was irritated by the slovenly attitude of her boyfriend Sean.
(2) She was startled when lisa popped up at the door all smiles.
(3) lisa's voice comes through loud and clear.

(1) a calendar for 2006
(2) This is one of the biggest weeks in the racing calendar.
(3) the Islamic calendar

(1) I'd like to check him out of here the day after tomorrow.
(2) She'sleaving the day after tomorrow.
(3) The new students will enter school the day after tomorrow.

(1) He owed vince money for drugs, so he scarpered.
(2) vince is having a spot of bother with the law.
(3) Like most scientists, vince Lord was inspired by the challenge of the unknown.

(1) both women were French.
(2) both the women were French.
(3) both of the women were French.

(1) I already told you not to come over.
(2) He'd just come over the border.
(3) Why don't you come over here tomorrow evening.

(1) a sandy beach
(2) sandy soil
(3) ...long, sandy beaches.

(1) Reforms usually begin with extra indexation and more frequent adjustment of controlled interest rates.
(2) Macro ( gasp! ) names all uppercase and begin with BOOST _.
(3) begin with different theories, Behaviorism and Humanism explicate the origin of abnormal psychology and the remedies.

(1) goat's cheese (= made from the milk of a goat )
(2) a cheese sandwich/salad
(3) a chunk/piece/slice of cheese

(1) inorganic/organic chemistry
(2) the chemistry of copper
(3) The patient's blood chemistry was monitored regularly.

(1) Don't eat between meals.
(2) Children must attend school between the ages of 5 and 16.
(3) Many changes took place between the two world wars.