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Wednesday
Jun222011

“Sorry to keep pestering you, but who can I speak to about getting access to the shared drive?”

Sorry to keep pestering you

It's your first week at a new job. You're being trained, so you've been asking your boss a lot of questions. You need to ask him one more question, but you're embarrassed to bother him again. So when you go to his office, you say:

Sorry to keep pestering you, but who can I speak to about getting access to the shared drive?

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Saturday
Jun262010

“I get this sharp pain in my shoulder whenever I raise my arm.”

Your shoulder hurts sometimes. It hurts badly when you raise your arms up. You want to describe this pain to a doctor. You say:

I get this sharp pain in my shoulder whenever I raise my arm.

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Tuesday
Jun152010

“I keep making the same mistake over and over.”

Memorize

You're practicing the guitar. You're trying to play a song while your friend listens, but every time you play it you get one particular part of it wrong. You say:

I keep making the same mistake over and over.

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