to buy
/ˈbaɪ/
verbto get something in exchange for paying money
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1. Money from a city job helped them buy these things.
2. They went to a lot of shops, and Mrs Hermann bought a lot of things.
3. To get cheap tickets, buy them an hour or two before it begins.
4. I bought new equipment.
5. It was something that wasn't in their branding when I bought my car in 2012 at all.
to fall
/ˈfɑɫ/, /ˈfɔɫ/
verbto quickly move from a high place toward the ground
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1. Snow is falling, and the sky is darker.
2. Every ten billion years one single grain of sand falls to the bottom.
3. Don't fall victim to dogma.
4. - Falling.
5. The fat one falls.
to give
/ˈɡɪv/
verbto offer a thing to a person
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1. The brain not only gives signals to the missing arm, it receives them as well.
2. Open an incognito window if you don't want to give them credit and do your transaction that way.
3. That sheer expansion of scale gives me perspective.
4. When a new drug comes to market, the FDA gives the drug company exclusive rights to produce and market the drug until their patent runs out.
5. It's pliant but it doesn't give like a yeast dough.
to hear
/ˈhiɹ/
verbto notice the sound a person or thing is making
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1. There is now a surgical alternative to improve hearing without an external device.
2. Suddenly he hears some men.
3. Can you imagine if I put a big loudspeaker hooked up to your brain, and I could hear all your thoughts right now?
4. I never heard you rant like that.
5. When people hear your accent?
to leave
/ˈɫiv/
verbto go away from somewhere or someone
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1. Dad is going to need help when he leaves hospital.
2. 'You shouldn't leave a stranger with them.
3. They use enzymes to digest their food, and what they leave behind are byproducts of that process.
4. Many migrants had left to escape poverty and violence.
5. You cover for them at work while they're on sick leave.
to read
/riːd/
verbto look at written or printed words and understand their meaning
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1. The two men read the letter again.
2. And I'm going to read a poem first, an elegy called "Burial."
3. During a 60 hour playthrough the kill counter reads precisely 21,369 space aliens , murderous robots and giant insects.
4. - Read a book, Leo.
5. - Read a book, people!
to see
/ˈsi/
verbto notice a thing or person with our eyes
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1. Here you can see sea animals like seals.
2. After three months, the governor saw that Yusuf learned quickly.
3. Jake sees a camera on the table.
4. The governor saw a surge in popularity.
5. Meanwhile, China's megacities have seen explosive growth in the last few decades.
to tell
/ˈtɛɫ/
verbto use words and give someone information
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1. She told me that my mother died in hospital.
2. During that time, his mother told him folktales and true tales of horror, including her experiences during an outbreak of cholera in 1832.
3. We're told that the sum of three consecutive odd integers is 231.
4. Every grain tells a story.
5. Becky tells the guys to join her in aerobics class.
