on Anglais:

My dad doesn't like to spend money so he hates going to the shops.

I congratulate you on passing the examination.

Let me congratulate you on your marriage.

I called up my friend to congratulate him on his success.

We want to congratulate them on their good work.

Let me congratulate you on your victory in the tournament.

I telephoned my friend to congratulate him.

I want to congratulate you on your graduation.

I congratulate you on your engagement.

I congratulate you on your success.

I congratulate you on wining first prize in the speech contest.

I congratulate him and Governor Palin for all they have achieved, and I look forward to working with them to renew this nation's promise in the months ahead.

She congratulated me on passing the exam.

Her family congratulated her on the news of her marriage.

Remember to congratulate her on the exam results!

Do you like being slapped on the back when your mates congratulate you on success at work?

Count me in.

A poor school record will count against you when you look for a job.

A man who angers easily should learn to count to ten - it calms trouble like pouring oil on troubled waters.

Write two expressions that are followed by either count or non-count nouns in conversation.

If there's no life after death, then you'd better make this life count.

Early man used his fingers and toes to count the animals he owned, or the measures of grain he had stored.

Count as one fractions of half a yen and over, but ignore those of less.

Surrounded by hordes of vampires, Christopher Columbus once had an epic sword duel with Count Dracula in the latter's castle. After the Count cut off Columbus's hand, Columbus calmly picked it up, put it back in place, and proceeded to best the Count.

Oi you, that's too much of a rip off by anyone's count! 6:4 is more than enough. Of course I'm the '6'.

You are wrong on almost every count; I think you have to reconsider your argumentation.

It doesn't count. What is the total passenger count? I'll count up to ten. She quickly counted the money.

Lgs that are used only as a 2nd lg are excluded from these counts.

People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to count them accurately.

You mustn't be late, OK? "But if the teacher's late too it doesn't count, right?"

I would be bored if I had to count to five hundred twenty-four thousand three hundred seventy-two.

Insist on the best.

You're playing with fire if you insist on riding your motorcycle without a helmet on.

Come in. I insist.

Why do you insist on paying for your school expenses yourself, when your parents are willing to give you financial support?

Some people insist that television does more harm than good.

It will make most Americans uncomfortable if you insist on their accepting expensive gifts.

It never occurred to me that he might insist on treating me to dinner.

If you insist, I'll have another drink.

Many Americans insist that immigrants speak English, but wouldn't a true language purist insist on Old English, wynns, thorns, edhs and all?

We insist that during the next three days you make decisions which are fair to all generations and which show an active concern for the environment.

And that's why for almost a hundred years, any employee has been able to go to his employer and insist on being paid in cash.

Not to harp on the same string, I still insist that those who drink should never drive.

Smart single women were insisting that every lover used a condom for protection from AIDS ans STDs.

She insisted on me having a rest. / She insisted that I (should) have a rest.

To say firmly that something is true, especially when other people do not believe you. Mia insisted that she and Carlo were just friends.

David has a keen interest in aesthetics — the qualities that make a painting, sculpture, musical composition, or poem pleasing to the eye, ear, or mind.

keen on something

A fence between makes love more keen.

Competition is very keen in the car industry.

Boeing, which builds more than half the world's commercial airliners, is understandably keen to draw attention to what can go wrong besides planes.

Japanese parents are not keen to talk about their own children.

bank was keen to build long term customer thrust.

They were very keen to start work as soon as possible.

She always look for extra work to do- she's very keen.

a. The butcher’s keen knife cut through the meat.

As a keen cyclist I am especially pleased by the provisions for carrying bicycles on the train.

They were very keen to start work as soon as possible.; Joan wanted to go to a movie but I wasn't keen (= I didn't want to go).; She's a keen tennis player.; She's keen on (playing) tennis.

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He has become keen on Italian food since visiting Rome.

Hounds hunt by their keen scent.

You lean on your parents too much. You must be more independent.

Please don't lean out of the window when we're moving.

He has a strong shoulder for you to lean on.

Her husband is a nice-looking man who is a little on the lean side.

After few months of training he became lean.

He leaned towards her. / Chicken meat is very lean. / My girlfriend is very lean because she eats healthy. / I lost my job and someone stole my car, it was a lean month.

Should I lean my head forwards or backwards if I have a nosebleed?

lean amine

leaned/bryt. leant

Emphasizing its postural lean characteristic, the term ‘tango apilado’ has often been used as a synonym for 'tango milonguero'.

Yea, would to God, I were among the roses, That lean to kiss you as you float between While on the lowest branch a bud uncloses A bud uncloses, to touch you, my queen.

There was a silence. Harry leaned still closer to the door, desperate to hear more.

The company recovered well after going through several lean years.

The meat was so lean that it almost melted in the mouth.

All I could mumble in response was that when I was a man of fifty, my mother would lean out of the window when I left and remind me not to drive too fast.

Don't rely on others.

When you rely on the team too much, it may reduce your individual competitive instincts.

That knife was so blunt I couldn't use it to cut the meat so I had to rely on my pocket knife.

But in return they get a clear look at important games, and if they miss something, they can always rely on the commentator's description or the instant replay.

Japanese people tend to rely on established authority.

The regions with the fewest natural resources rely on importation to increase their standard of living.

We rely on Patty because she never breaks her promises.

In my analysis I rely considerably on the types of authoritarian behaviour first analyzed by Kurz.

In conclusion, Ahn, it very much falls to you and me to set the tone for the work environment. I will do my bit to defuse the present climate and crack on with the job at hand. I hope I can rely on your support for this.

The success of the project relies on everyone doing their best. You can't rely on what other people say.

For my own part, I should not like to think that I ever rely on the protection of the State.

It's good to have a friend that you can always rely on. / I can't rely on my friends anymore, they disappointed me. / I wouldn't rely on him. / He shouldn't rely on his car so much, it's very old.

I guess my view on friendship is pretty bleak because I've never really had to rely on anyone for anything.

Families rely more on wives earning than before

Others rely on a combination of 2.4 gigahertz signals and WiFi, and they may pass on an old‐school controller for one that looks more like a gamepad, or they may rely on a control app on your smartphone or tablet.

a business trip / we're going on a trip

I often travel.

If you always travel by subway, you seldom surface other than at your stop.

Space travel will be commonplace some time in the future.

My aim is to learn enough English so I don't need to carry a dictionary with me when I travel.

I have many visas in my passport because I travel a lot for my job.

No matter where you may travel, be sure to phone me once a week.

When you travel abroad, you need change in the currency of the country you are visiting to pay for a taxi, a cup of coffee or a tip.

They were determined to travel the length of Vietnam in just eight days.

In the absence of my travel partner, I took several solo trips.

We can travel through time. And we do at the remarkable rate of one second per second.

It's not clear right now whether time travel is really something that exists in reality but its possibility has been proven by theoretical physics.

We will arrange travel expenses for trips for research purposes, so go to whatever country you want to.

Putting my traveling experience to good use, I started a travel agency.

The train was full, so she was obliged to travel second-class, and had to stand all the way.

But light does not travel at the same speed through all materials; it goes slower through some than through others.

Most of the plain, simple, everyday things he desires can be secured by people of average means.

Thomas A. Edison so loves his work that he sleeps an average of less than four hours of each twenty-four.

Tom isn't your average guy. He doesn't like things most guys like and he doesn't like to do things most men enjoy doing.

on average

Compared to many other countries, the average intake of trans-fats per person in Japan is low and it is hypothesized that it does not have a strong impact on health.

When an average person sends a message in a bottle, it's just a childish fantasy. When Christopher Columbus sends a message in a bottle, the fate of an entire country is at stake.

The average man fails not because he lacks ability, but because he lacks ability to concentrate.

In particular, it is customary for actual examples of use of the harmonic mean to generally cover "average speed," and explain no further than that.

Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes, and wishes he was certain.

Because an average person doesn't need 3D, or high whatchacallit speeds.

The average Westerner, in his sleek complacency, will see in the tea ceremony but another instance of the thousand and one oddities which constitute the quaintness and childishness of the East to him.

You can tell from the jargon alone that these instructions were written for experienced builders and not the average consumer.

English studies on the use of cell phones by young people show truly worrying situations, in which a person between the ages of six and twenty sends an average of twenty nine messages, receives fifteen, and makes nine calls each day.

I did a lot of analysis on, uh, the supply and demand in the market, and, uh, we looked at a lot of charts, like uh, the moving averages of the last 200 days, and then 40 days, and then we looked at the history of the, um, the gold mining,

There are 3 pictures on the wall.

photos hang on the walls of the house