1. i think we should go home now
->I think it's time we went home.
2. My boss doesn't allow us to eat at our desk
-> My boss draws the line at us eating at our desk.
3. Somehow no one found out he had stolen the technical design from another company
->Somehow he managed to get away with stealing the technical design from another company
4. What he told me made me very curious to hear the rest of the history
->what he told me whetted my apetite for the whole story.