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English doesn't provide any formula or set sequence for this kind of family description. You just have to decide what you want to say, and provide whatever information you think is important or appropriate.
If you were writing it, you might create a carefully planned paragraph; in conversation it won't be so well organized, so you'll probably have to make corrections as you go along.
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I think it could use a preposition:
"… your perseverance in enduring and overcoming all the difficulties …".
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That would seem to depend on whether you're thinking of your shared, collective imagination or your individual (and perhaps quite different) imaginings.
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Seems to me the implication is that Father Cronin is thought of as a well-known anti-Communist, whether or not you or I have ever heard of him.
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Version (1) is correct, assuming that you're talking about only the stores of that mall.
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Either form would work.
But so would "the next … to win".
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Both are acceptable, though I suspect "jump out the window" may be less common in British than in American usage.
Technically, of course, if you are actually in the window (some windows are quite large!) then you would jump out of the window (and perhaps into the room!)
But in the more usual situation, you would initially be in the room and might leave by jumping out the window.
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A teacher teaches you something.
A coach helps you with your particular problems.
A tutor is assigned specifically to be your teacher.
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Depending on the exact context, you might use past progressive form in telling the story:
"I had spent six years at the university, and now I was graduating."
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Sometimes DragO (like so many of us) just can't resist!
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