- podat dobrý výkon

1. They might say you gave a good performance, or they may say you gave a bad one, but they rarely go into the realms of personal abuse. BNC

2. In Liverpool he came second in the English under-12 quick play championship, gave a good performance in last year's London junior championships, and progressed to the England junior get-together in January. BNC

3. Given a good performance today he will clearly be in line for a place at Wembley. BNC

- přinášet zprávy

1. The early sporting papers such as Bell's Life in London existed to give news of forthcoming events and descriptions of recent ones mostly races and prize-fights. Wasps

2. While as early as Elizabethan times crime chap-books were published to give news about recent crimes, Wagner suggests that it was only toward the end of the seventeenth century that a diverse crime literature appeared. BNC

3. He reprinted articles from other publications, often in weekly parts; translated papers such as those of Mendeleev; and gave news of industrial developments and of exhibitions; he had also a lively correspondence section. BNC

- upadat, horšit se, jít z kopce

1. The amateur side of racing, in particular, would go downhill if riders did not have the Milk Race to aim for. BNC

2. So, basically, you're saying that there are these cuts and that's going to mean the quality of life in the homes is going to go downhill. BNC

3. My standing with Harold Wilson began to go downhill in the 1970s, not on personal grounds but because of what might be described as political differences. Wasps

- skončit vysílání

1. For a while the television channel went off the air as protesters swarmed into the building, before troops and government supporters pushed them out. BNC

2. Had he missed the cut, Woosnam would not even have had that to watch on Saturday, since the network went off the air with about an hour's play left in a move that would have angered Great Britain. BNC

3. TV presenters went off the air after bust-up. BNC

- jít na film

1. Years later, on the day our first child was due to be born, when it became obvious that the birth was not imminent, my husband Roger suggested that we go to a film to take our minds off the event. BNC

2. They would go to one another's flats, have supper in a bistro, go to a film, or sit at home with bowls of spaghetti, chatting and watching television. BNC

3. If you go to a film hoping that it will be a bearer of truth and meaning, you'll notice parts of the film that do just that. WebC

- společenská rubrika

1. He decided to use the letter; the editor of his gossip column astutely elected to buy himself into the good graces of Buckingham Palace by informing their Press Secretary. BNC

2. But that was before she had met Nathan Bryce, when this complex, attractive, abrasive man was still simply a name and a photograph in a gossip column. BNC

3. Holly was wrong about Wickham's reaction to the gossip column story about his wife. BNC

- poutavý příběh

1. Stanley Kubrick's gripping story of a brilliantly conceived and executed robbery stars Sterling Hayden as ex-convict Johnny Clay who devises a daring plan to steal two million dollars from a heavily guarded racetrack. WebC

2. Telling the Sea is a gripping story set in coastal Wales of a family's struggle for safety. WebC

3. After reading 300 pages of the 766-page book, I'm pushing myself to type this review because I want to go back to the gripping story. WebC

- bulvární tisk

1. The gutter press particularly enjoyed the story, especially as the artifacts had belonged to a man now thought to have been murdered. WebC

2.  The local gutter press, the Whaddon and Mitchley Argus, then printed the following names of players I hoped to sign. BNC

3. The gutter press and the entertainment industry do not yet exist here in the way they do in Britain or in the United States. BNC

- nabourat se do počítače

1. An Edindurgh University student caused chaos on a vast scale by hacking into computers around the world from a GBP200 desktop machine in his room. Wasps

2. This morning I ordered our central computer here to hack into the Riyadh computer and do a check. Wasps

3. Chris Hook claims that it takes expert knowledge and a great deal of patience to hack into a computer system. BNC

- polopravdy

1. Confusing stories are circulating along with rumours and half-truths as people, in their desperation, try to help find the murderers. BNC

2. The Opposition tell half-truths because Labour is the only party which when in office cut national health expenditure. BNC

3. Unsubstantiated half-truths and distortions of fact cause unnecessary argument and are an inefficient use of people's time. BNC

- být dlouho na programu

1. I am afraid it will not have a long run either, and that will mean more new costumes for another play. WebC

2. While O'Bannon says he hopes the series will have a long run, he does have some well-defined ideas how he wants the overall series to end. WebC

3. Outside Germany it would have a long run. WebC

- mít čich pro skandály

1. Others never worked for the mainstream media at all, but they have a nose for scandal, and because they are not bound by any ethical considerations, they resort to the worst forms of blackmail. WebC

2. An activist in the African-American community in New York, the woman has a nose for scandal and corruption. WebC

3. She had a nose for scandal, a knack for flip headlines, a reportorial "skepticism" more snarky than investigative. WebC

- mít ostrý jazyk

1.  He knows he has a ready tongue and a facile pen, and on these he relies to carry him safely through the mazes of unreason. WebC

2. In Warsaw they said—and in these cases diplomacy has a ready tongue, especially when it comes to lies—that they knew nothing of these bands. WebC

3. Whoever assumes the post must be a n "able person" who is smooth and slick, has a ready tongue and can deal with all people at a feast. WebC

- hlavní redakce

1.  I am deeply appreciative of the input to BNC which came from your partnership's head office, and much impressed by the quality of the documentation submitted. BNC

2. Head Office rent was nearly three months overdue, the rates were in arrears, the staff had not been paid and the general president was stranded in New York for lack of funds. BNC

3. He also saw the Bedale office downgraded to a sub-office, the head office for the district concentrated at Darlington and most of the staff records kept at Middlesbrough. BNC

- slyšet něco v rozhlase

1. Did you hear it on the radio this morning about the research that these people are doing? BNC

2. Because bear in mind Thelwall Viaduct, I hear it on the radio every morning, there's roadworks. BNC

3. I think regarding the number of people who are in prison, whether on remand or otherwise, erm, reminds me of something that that I keep noticing, either hear it on the radio or in the paper. BNC