Exercise 14. Comment on the use of the Put Perfect.

1, He had already learnt that when he wanted anything it was better to ask his mother first. 2. It had long been physically impossible for Swithin to start, his fist came down on the table. 3. Talking to him was very easy; just like talk­ing to someone you had known all your life. 4. The other children who had grown up with him were still the same.

Hardly had she sat down when a very stout gentleman flopped into the chair opposite hers. 6. George made no an­swer, and we found that he had been asleep for some time.

We knew that as a girl she had lived in the country. 8. He couldn’t meet me. He hadn’t been well for a few weeks. 9. Den­ny had fallen ill and Andrew was working for him. 10,1 met Strickland before I had been a fortnight in Paris. 11. Old Jolyon saw Irene where he had seen her the first time, on the log. 12. Paying for what he had not eaten he left the cafe. 13. The occasion wasn’t nearly as bad as I had feared. 14. The doctor examined Jan’a throat. “Nothing wrong there.”

He hab attended her before, and it had always been the same; whenever he came into the room, his brisk, easy manner had given her comfort.

Exercise 15. Use the Past Indefinite or the Put Perfect instead of the infinitives in brackets.

1. Suddenly he (to grit) his teeth in angry exasperation. Not only he (to omit) to leave his card; he (to forget) to tell them who he (to be). 2. It (to be) perfectly true that he never (to take) the slightest interest in his clothes, a suit off the peg always (to serve) him excellently, (to cover) him, (to keep) him warm without elegance. 3. It (to be) nine o'clock and we (to come) to her room two hours before, as we (to do) often on those winter evenings. 4. At once Helen (to smile) at me; yet I (to see) that it (to be) an effort for her to clear her mind of what (to go) before. 5. Gideon (to wake) early that morning possibly because the ringing of the fire alarm (to be) in his mind most of the night. 6. He (to graduate) from Queen’s College before he (to take) his master’s degree at Christ Church, Oxford. 7. “What he (to say)? Tell us! Tell us!” He (to tell) them what he (to say) and what the rector (to say) and, when he (to tell) them, all the fellows (to fling) their caps and (to cry): “Hurroot” 8. When he (to come back) to his seat his manner (to change). He (to be) gentle and kindly. 9. He (to see) he (to be) already further out than he (to hope) to be at this hour. 10. By the time Fenella (to take off) her coat and skirt and (to put on) her flannel dressing-gown, grandma (to be) quite ready. 11. No sooner we (to put down) our glass­es than the waiter (to refill) them. 12. Inquiring for her at tea-time Soames (to learn) that Fleur (to be out) in the car since two.

Exercise 16. Comment on the use of the Past Perfect Continuous.

She had been dreaming — a bad dream — though she couldn’t remember the details of it. 2. Betty wasn’t such a fool as not to see that Mrs Sunbury had been doing all she could to make her uncomfortable. 3. I wondered how long I’d been standing there, my hand on the phone. 4. The others had been talking a few moments when he raised his head.

One of the men spoke first and said the very things that

Michael had been saying for so long. 6. The women came from under the trees where they had been waiting. 7. Archie couldn’t have said how long he had been sitting in the deep armchair near the window. 8. The complaints she had been turning over in her mind to make to him, died on her tongue.

They’d been doing a steady fifty ever since they had got out of Sydney, and now the speedometer was rocketing around sixty. Ю. Suddenly when he had been working six months his wife’s aunt in Bridlington took ill and wrote asking her to come.

Exercise 17. Use the required past tense instead of the infinitives in brackets.

1. Fleur (to put) her baby back in its nest, and (to stare) straight before her. 2. But when the time (to come) to set out, my friend (not to feel) well. He (to think) he (to stay) too long in the water. 3. Miss Marple (to say) she (to hear) that Gladys (to leave), 4. The guests (to stand) by the window, waiting for the party to begin, while some of them (to go) to other parts of the flat. 5. Making sure that the waiter (not to look) over his shoulder, Soames, who (to bring) the book in with him, (to push) it over. 6. 1 (to explain) to the gentlemen that you (to be) in bed for several days with a high fever. 7. At 6.30 that Friday afternoon the Lincoln International Airport still (to work), though with difficulty. A snow storm (to rage) for three days and now trouble spots (to begin) to appear. 8- Hard- ly he (to enter) the room when he (to switch on) the TV set.

The bell (to stop) ringing and they (to guess) that Betty (to go away). 10, Just as we (to leave) the phone (to ring).

(to wonder) if a friend of mine (to stay) here lately. 12. He (cannot) bear the thought that during the whole time Clare (to regard) him with her critical eye. 13. At the end of the table Mike (to tell) his hostess of the adventures in a tour from which he just (to return). 14. I (to sit) on the stage all alone with my notes, sipping coffee. 15. Although she (to seem) to be listening to Doreen, only half of her mind (to hear) what she (to say), the other half (to check), (to plan) and (to arrange) to make certain she (to have) everything for the ten days she would be away. 16. Doreen (to look up) from her nail she (to manicure) to see il her words (to have) any effect.

Exercise 18. Translate the sentences using the Past Indefinite, the Past Continuous, the Past Perfect or the Past Perfect Continuous,

1. После того как доктор ушел, она еще долго сидела у кроватки, прислушиваясь к хриплому дыханию девоч­ки. 2. За стеной кто-то смеялся. Смех был такой весе­лый и заразительный, какого она давно не слышала.

Денни работал у себя в кабинете до восьми часов. По­том они вдвоем поужинали и почти до полуночи гово­рили о своих планах на будущее. Спать легли очень поздно. 4. Джейн несколько секунд внимательно его разглядывала, когда он вдруг поднял глаза и встретился с ней взглядом. 5. К счастью, он не заметил ее красных глаз и не догадался, что она плакала. 6. Он позвонил четверть часа тому назад и сказал, что выезжает. 7. Не успела она добежать до станции метро, как хлынул дождь.

Соме пересек лужайку, постоял на тропинке, ведущей к реке, повернул обратно, не сознавая, куда он идет.