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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 March 2025
What?
Not one moment
Not one moment
I don’t care! I don’t mind!
How handsome he is!
How good he is! How handsome he is!
How much he stands in need of . . .! How urgently he needs . . .!
Oh, how sweet is . . ., oh, how sweet he is!
Oh, how sweet is . . ., oh, how sweet he is!
What a light burden it is!
Before long I saw him, it did not take very long before
I saw him
I can’t do that
He didn’t bat an eye
To be of no use, be of no avail to s.o.
How excellent Omar is!
To find no sleep
What’s to be done?
What’s to be done now? What can you do?
Not (negation)
No sooner had he . . . than, he had hardly . . . when
What’s that to you? What has that to do with you? What do you know about that?
Futile, vain, preposterous (lit. God has given it no power)
I shall never forget
How small, how worthless it is!
There is not a soul in the house
How about you? What do you think?
Why is it that he . . .?
He is still rich
He is still in
The essentials
I can do nothing, I can get nowhere
Mesopotamia
What . . . are before us or present themselves to us
What it contains, comprises, its contents
Their hearts
Overnight, all of a sudden
To admit of no doubt
He was not out to insult her, he had no intention of offending her
What people say, what is generally rumoured
He couldn’t help (doing s.th.), he couldn’t refrain from
What the night brought, what happened in the night
The crime that he has committed
What’s it all about?
What’s happened to you? What’s the trouble? What’s the matter with you?
What concern of his is . . .? What has he to do with . . .?
Except, with the exception
As long as I live
To have no objections
The books that I have seen
Whatever books I have seen
What made things even worse . . .
To be unchanged, be as always
There is still time
You are still the same!
What have you got to do with this?
What business of yours is this?
What’s the matter with you? What do you want?
What has he got to do with the matter?
What have I got to do with that?
What business of mine is that?
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