| English | Russian |
| I thought I'd + verb | я решил (Want a donut? Here, I thought I'd buy an extra one for you, it's got raspberry filling in it. • Because it's a stormy, rainy night and we've just lost power in the entire neighbourhood, I thought I'd share with you some of my favourite ghost and horror stories. ART Vancouver) |
| not + verb + any time soon | не скоро (With the vaccine shortages, pharmacists won't be giving you the jab any time soon. ART Vancouver) |
| tend + verb | в основном (I tend to live in the imagination world. Unfortunately, I find it hard to come out of it. ART Vancouver) |
| used to + verb | раньше (My son's lunch used to consist of a peanut butter and jelly sandwich but he's not allowed that now because of peanut allergies in his class. ART Vancouver) |
| wouldn't it be cool + verb? | вот было бы здорово, если бы ...! (He began sculpting when he was a teenager, attending art school for a time in his 20s, before landing a job with San Diego Halloween design company Disguise. One day around this time, he had an epiphany in a department store. “They had hired an actress to pretend to be a mannequin — and she was really good at it,” McMullen recalls. “For some reason that stuck with me, I was like, ‘Wouldn’t it be cool to have a mannequin that looks so real, that people would think that it was?’ Kind of like an inverse of that experience. I started coming up with this, like, crazy idea of a hyper-realistic, pose-able mannequin.”  reviewjournal.com ART Vancouver) |
