Diary

I went to watch a movie even after my night shift.  But, I fell asleep right away. Before I knew it, the movie had ended.

You can either say “I went to watch” or “I watched” but not “went to watched”. 

In addition to Ryan’s answer, these words can have a more nuanced meaning. Timeout often means stopping all activity, AND then the activity resumes. So a timeout is usually for a specific or short period of time. In your example, the timeout stopped entire game. All players stopped playing for a period of time, not just the injured player. Once the timeout was over, they started playing again. So it is a short period of time and not much happens during the time. Moratorium often stops a very specific thing and is indefinite in length. In your example, ONLY testing nuclear weapons stopped. But people could still make nuclear weapons, or research better weapons, or sell weapons. They just couldn’t test them. And this moratorium would last indefinitely. Sometimes people say “temporary moratorium” to say that the moratorium will end soon. They have to specify “temporary” because a moratorium is not usually temporary. An example of moratorium in everyday use: if a friend and I argue about something, like politics, we can decide that we will no longer discuss that subject. We could say, let’s put a moratorium on that subject, meaning we will no longer talk about it since it makes us argue.

To me, both sound right and natural. I am sure someone more qualified will give you a more detailed answer. I am an American English native speaker with no experience teaching grammar or languages.

The ultimate meaning is they didn’t have dinner. But, it could mean they never arrived at the destination for dinner, or dinner was never served, or that they ran out of time, or got sidetracked. There isn’t enough information to determine exactly what happened. If this was a conversation I was having with a friend, I would assume something came up that took their attention. They got so involved in something that grabbed their attention that they forgot about dinner or were too late to have dinner. I am an American English native speaker with absolutely no experience teaching language.

You now have 4 different answers from 4 different people. I think it sounds perfectly natural and an appropriate use of “as.” Perhaps in different regions, different things sound more natural to different people. I am an American English native speaker that has absolutely no experience in teaching languages. [emoji]