all day/night/year/week continuing for the whole day, night, year etc – used especially to emphasize that it is a long timeIt’s going to take me all night to finish this essay.He’s in London all week, and only comes home at the weekends.hours/weeks/months/years many hours, weeks...
believed Harrison had indeed told them everything he knew.•Thejudgeadvisedthegovernorthat thelawviolatedthe FirstAmendmentrights ofteachers.•There are normally threejudgesfor thenationalessaycompetition.•A New Yorkjudgeawardedcustodyof theboytoLeoin 1994 and allowed Heard to see him every other...
Ejemplos desde el Corpus check•"Are you sure this is the rightphonenumber?" "Yes, I've justchecked."•"Can Iexchangethis for a smallersize?" "You should be able to. Let mecheck."•"We havemilk, don't we?" "Uh, I'llcheck."•Shefrowned, andcheckedagain, her eyeswideningin...
Ejemplos desde el Corpus outline•In a shortstatement, Akers gave anoutlineof his plans for the company.•The book begins with anoutlineof theeventsthat led to the First WorldWar.•anoutlineagreement•In thispaperI will give abroadoutlineof theresearchwe have been doing.•Achalkoutlineof...
Ejemplos desde el Corpus contest•Harriet decided toenterHenry in thecutebabycontest.•She won severalbeautycontestswhen she was in her early twenties.•But one thing remainedconstant: In a bigcontest, Gretzky will come through in a big way.•a closecontestfor the mayor's job•Theessay...
2 literary to move slowly and with great efforttoil up/through/along etc They toiled slowly up the hill.→ Ver Tabla de verbos Ejemplos desde el Corpustoil• The workers and peasants toil and sweat to service debts owed to the international bankers and multilateral agencies.• For a year...
Melville again contrasts the land with the sea.an essaycomparing and contrasting(=showing how two things are similar and different)Verdi and Wagner and their operas►vertesauroencompare→ VerTabla de verbosEjemplos desde el Corpuscontrast•It isinterestingtocontrastgravitationwith the otherlong-range...