1. If you were reporting on having attended an exhibition last summer, what sentence would you choose as your most natural style of usage? (eg, like saying ‘I went to the ball game...’ or whatever comes naturally)

I went to a ball game at Wrigley while I was in Chicago last June...

I was at a seminar on linguistic differences between British and American English when I...




2. If someone had kept you waiting for a meeting outside a shop, say, what sort of construction would you use if reproving them about their final arrival (please incorporate a variant of those last two words)

Well, I hope we didn't rush your (breakfast, lunch, whatever) [sarcastic tone of voice]

Well, it's about time you got here. I was about to send out Search and Rescue.

I'll get more as I think of them.