Complex Object

1. If I had heard you coming, I wouldn’t have got frightened to see you. I would want/prefer you to knock before entering the room next time. – I am sorry for scaring you, I didn’t mean/intend to do it. Next time I’ll be making more noise to let you know I’m coming.

2. The police announced to have finally arrested the robber and made him confess robbing the bank in Baker Street. No one believes him to have no accomplices, but the culprit claims to have organized everything alone. Meanwhile he is waiting for the court to decide if he is telling the truth.

3. I have never suspected him to be dating that girl. I have seen them walking together a couple of times, but I was sure them to be mere friends or colleagues. Of course I cannot count on him to break up with her only because I don’t approve of his choice. He is too old to let me decide his future for him. But to be his mother and to see that he is going to ruin his life is very hard. If only I could make him understand it now! But he won’t hear me!..

4. Who could have persuaded you to buy this rusty old car? I believe it to be 100 years old! You cannot really rely on it to get you to your destinations, can you? – Don’t exaggerate. The mechanic declared it to work flawlessly for another 20 years at least, though he warned me not to drive it to its extremities. – I cannot believe you to be so silly. The mechanic would have told you anything to get rid of this old junk. To have trusted him is the craziest thing you could have done. What are we to do with it now?

5. I forbid you to invite this person to ever come to our house because I’ve always thought him to bring misfortune. – Don’t be ridiculous. I can see that you treat him partially because of your superstitions, but I know him to be a decent person, besides, I hear a lot that he can be trusted/relied on.

6. I smell something burning in the kitchen. Are you sure to have turned off the oven? To be on the safe side, I would like you to go and check.

7. Ask Kevin to take his CV with him. We may have an interesting offer to make to him. I know him to have never let anyone down and that’s what our company needs right now.

8. Have you seen Janet leave? – No, I haven’t. Isn’t she at home? I think I heard some music playing in her bedroom not long ago. She couldn’t have slipped away unnoticed, could she?

9. Can you hear the dog barking? I want you to go and make it stop. It’s been barking for two hours already and I cannot stand hearing it any more.

10. If I hadn’t heard him decline such a profitable offer, I wouldn’t have believed it. I have always thought him to be a reasonable man.

Arakin, Unit 2 + Grammar

1. You have done nothing to be admired. To tell the truth I even doubt that you have a friend to rely on, if you should get in a mess. To succeed in life and to win people’s admiration, you shouldn’t, to begin with, be constantly mixed up with suspicious people and affairs. This has bad impact on your reputation.

2. She is clever enough to resist the temptation of raising this problem. To stay in the background now is wiser than to arouse pointless suspicion and suffer from unfair accusations as a result. To be on the safe side, I wouldn’t come in contact with them for a while. Though, she is not weak-hearted to follow the line of least resistance or to lose consciousness in the face of difficulties.

3. She wanted something exciting to interfere in her monotonous life, and her life-time dream was to run away as far as possible from here never to return. But what was the point in denying that she suffered from lack of means to do so?

4. I heard him express his point of view on the matter and I can’t help but agree with him on some points. To be more precise/exact, what he suggests has a point and the proof he provides is irresistible. And to crown it all, he has taken pains to come in contact with the authorities to obtain their permission to interfere with the situation.

5. On reflection, I can’t but agree that no one can be above suspicion until the truth is revealed. If I were asked to make my point, I would point out that placing everyone under constant suspicion may force the one having something to do with this mess make a false step, which will enable us to find him.

6. To dream and imagine things is definitely her cup of tea. I have known her to be a dreamer since we were little children. Needless to say, that her parents considered her constant fantasies to reflect a kind of mental disorder in a way/in/to some degree. They were suspicious about what influence/impact it might have on her future life. But when she was 17, there came a turning point in her life to change everything never to be the same again. A distant relative heard her telling one of her dreams to her friend and he couldn’t resist admiring it. The very day he made himself clear to the girl’s parents that she was very talented rather than crazy and that he would like her to write down her dreams into stories to be sent to a publishing house. Strange to say, her parents agreed to let her try with mixed feelings. To cut a long story short, the girl succeeded in arousing/winning worldwide admiration with her works and is now on the point of being awarded a literary prize for her contribution to the development of fantasy short stories.

For-to-Infinitive Construction

1. Our seats were too far away from the stage for anything to be properly seen, and to make the matters worse, the noise was too loud for anything to be heard. We badly regretted not buying tickets in advance.

2. There is hardly any need for you to come so early. We may as well start working on it in the afternoon.

3. The best thing for you to do now is to let the matter rest and pretend to have forgotten about what has happened, for a while at least.

4. There was nothing for us to wait for and we couldn't but leave empty-handed. We tried to cheer up a bit thinking that the point was not to win, but to get some useful experience.

5. No sooner had I entered the office, than the boss urged for the calls to be made to arrange a special shareholders’ meeting one hour later.

6. I waited for him to stand up for his little sister, but he didn't seem to intend to do so, so I spoke up myself.

7. It is for you to take care of the puppy. Have you forgotten being the one to persuade us to take it home to keep?

8. That was utterly disappointing for her, to say the least, to hear the news. The point was to control her temper as long as possible to avoid unnecessary complications.

9. The manager gestured for Mr. Gibbs to follow him, and they both disappeared in his office not to be seen for another few hours. They were believed to have been good friends before the war burst out and to have never seen each other since.

10. It is obligatory for the students of our university to keep to the University Conduct Code and to meet the requirements of the curriculum.

11. When I was crossing the street I noticed an old friend of mine waving for me to come over to her from across the road. I hadn't seen her since we graduated in 1999 and was pleased to have a little talk with her and to remember going to university together.

12. It was desirable for me to catch that train if I didn't want to spend the night at the railway station, so I took a taxi to take me there well in advance of the train departure. I thought I would rather wait for half a hour now than be compelled to a night in the waiting room.

13. After losing her husband there was nothing left for her to live for. Needless to say that she had no children to care for and to be looked after by. That's why she sold her house and went on a round-the-world trip never to return.