25. Герундий

1. Hearing them talk about bathing made me want to bath too.

2. At this moment, the room bore every mark of having been recently and hurriedly ransacked.

3. For some months there had been in our front only a small brigade of undisciplined troops, apparently without a commander, who were useful to us, for not disturbing them we could create an impression of our weakness.

4. Having a wife who let people know exactly what she thought was not always comfortable for him.

5. He encouraged, he almost compelled her to preserve her childishness. Keeping her a baby in spite of her age amused her. (A. Huxley)

6. Satisfying the sweet tooth of weight-conscious Americans hasn't been easy for the food industry. ("Nsw.")

7. Riding in Hyde park has been in decline since the war, and there are now only two riding stables left serving the park. ("G.")

8. It was no explanation of the old woman's having eluded us to say that she lived abroad, for our research had again and again taken us (not only by correspondence but by personal inquiry) to France, to Germany, to Italy. (H.James)

9. Going to concerts was about the only thing he thoroughly enjoyed.

10. You have no one, but yourself to blame for not having asked for more detailed information.

11. Perhaps he simply couldn't bear not being the centre of attention.

12. And there was one thing Reilly could not stand, he could not stand being embarrassed. And he could not stand being made a fool of.

13. He had the sense — as he had at their first meeting — of never being able to recognize her or forgetting what she looked like when she was out of sight.

14. In seeing to whether Fleur was asleep he might wake her up.

15. On being carefully inspected the coat showed evident signs of having been worn on the preceding night.

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16. Parents who want the very best for their children usually expect the best from them. By knowing what to expect, but not expecting more

than the possible, parents can help their children.

17. He, after bowing, smiling, frowning, shaking his hand in an amazingly rapid succession, walked away to eat a whole plateful of sandwiches, wash them down with beer and talk to five people at once with his mouth full.

18. These circumstances taken together prevented his seeing the matter in its proper light.

19. "Are you hinting that Joe had secret life?" said Donalson. "No. But I am hinting that he could have had a secret life without any of us knowing about it."

20. All the evidence of past words and deeds is against such an agreement being possible.

26. Определения, образованные соположением

1. President Chirac prepared yesterday to fly to France's Mururoa nuclear test atoll in the Pacific.

2. I believe that TV is the least effective war reporting media because it presents images rather than a whole story.

3. Worried councillors in North Wales have called a public meeting to discuss the extent of radioactive pollution from Sellafield along the coast. The meeting was called by Gwynned county council's public protection committee after councillors heard reports of the high risk of radioactivity in the Irish sea. ("MS")

4. The Evening Star's aggressive salesmen gobbled up more than half of the burgeoning metropolitan area's lucrative newspaper advertising market. ("Nsw.")

5. Scepticism is growing in Europe over the feasibility of meeting the Soviet Union's huge food aid request, given disarray in the economy and the transfer of power to the republics. ("G.")

6. His school draws about 600 day pupils from 13 villages. Many of his boarders are service children, sometimes two of the same family. Their costs are covered by the Ministry of Defense's boarding school allowances. ("G.")

7. The British Pest Control Association warned in a report that pests carried a "devastating range of diseases," but hospital pest control budgets were being squeezed. ("MS")

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8. A crisis meeting is being held in London next Monday between secretaries of the printing trade unions and the proprietors of the Daily Sketch.

9. Glasgow faces evening paper closure crisis, their guessed, but unknown perils.

10. A Government bid to attract more fast-spending foreign tourists to Britain by improving hotels was revealed in the Commons yesterday in the second day of the four-day Budget debate. A new country-wide scheme of grants for hotel extensions and improvements was

announced.