elder brother; big brother; one's senior; one's elder; old ingredients; stale ingredients
to find; to discover; to come across; to be used to seeing; to be familiar with
time; hour; occasion; case; chance; opportunity
damn it; damn; beast; animal; person reborn into the animal realm; brute
how; in what way; how about
to meet; to encounter; to see; to have an accident; to have a bad experience
good; advantage; sake; purpose; consequence; result
to face; to go towards; to head towards
this; last (couple of years, etc.); these; you (as in "you liar")
near; neighbourhood; nearly (e.g. "it took nearly one year"); close to; shortly; soon
year; counter for years (e.g. of an era), grades (e.g. school); period of an apprentice's contract (usu. ten years)
abrupt; sudden; unexpected
to come along; to come around; to turn up; to arrive at the present; to get where one is; to have been doing something (for a period of time)
at the very beginning; first of all; first and foremost; before anything else
residence; stay; (job) posting; residential police box; residential police box officer
police officer; policeman; constable
to kill; to slay; to suppress; to block; to suppress (a voice, feelings, etc.); to hold back
occupying; having (an area) all to oneself; military occupation; possession; capture
dispatch; despatch; deployment; temporary employee (esp. from an agency); temporary worker; agency temp
time (three times, each time, etc.); times
to continue; to keep up; to keep on; to continue ...; to keep on ...
finally; at last; in the end; ultimately
followers; subordinates; being under someone's command
in succession; one by one
and; and then; thus; and now; and finally
government; administration; ministry
to abandon; to fail; to desert; to forsake
such; that sort of; that kind of; no way!; never!
things like; something like; someone like; such a thing as; (the fact) that; to think that
exaggerated; overdone; overblown; hyperbolic; bombastic; grandiose
(slowly and) carefully; without haste; thoroughly; deliberately; closely; meticulously
tactics; strategy; military operation; naval operation
to knead; to thicken into a paste (stirring over a flame); to polish (a plan, etc.); to refine; to train; to drill; to gloss (silk)
then; well; so; well then
to bring (something); to take along; to fetch; to get
latest; newest; late-breaking (news)
name; given name; first name
to be lost (e.g. luggage); to be missing; to be used up; to be run out; to disappear (e.g. pain); to be lost (e.g. a dream, confidence)
unusual event; strange occurrence; strange phenomenon; something abnormal; change (for the worse); accident