1. I was too excited to eat.

2. My son was old enough to notice my mood.

3. Would you be so kind as to shut the door?

4. I said I was too busy to talk and put down the telephone.

5. He was too lazy to take his profession seriously.

6. It is always easy enough to find reasons for doing nothing.

7. He was so tired as to be unable to undress.

8. I was too shy to speak to the girl or even to look at her properly.

9. I'm sure you're too young to remember.

10. At the time he was not well enough to go travelling.

11. The light wasn't strong enough for me to see the expression of his face.

12. Michael was too annoyed to reply immediately.

13. It was too dark for him to see my face.

Ex. 47.

1.	to do	12.	drifting	23.	overlooking
2.	lying	13.	to look	24.	to look
3.	to give	14.	moving	25.	waiting
4.	to tell	15.	being escorted	26.	crying
5.	affecting	16.	to gossip	27.	waiting
6.	to put	17.	to appeal	28.	to do
7.	travelling	18.	coming	29.	welcoming
8.	sleeping	19.	admiring	30.	approaching
9.	to overcome	20.	to do, to keep	31.	sitting
10.	to show	21.	to try	32.	to look
11.	to come	22.	rising

Ex. 48.

1. I've got something to show you.

2. In the carriage there was only an old man reading his paper.

3. He had a difficult job to cope with.

4. She always had her brother to play with, to quarrel with, to show off in front of other girls.

5. He was not an easy person to help.

6. Dick ran into a young woman coming out of the greengrocer's.

7. Look, there is a bus stopping.

8. Paul had a lot of things to see to.

9. Oh, Steve, I have something important to discuss with you.

10. I have a lot of papers for him to sign.

11. I met Sid coming back from town.

12. It was a dining-room and there were three people having tea at thj table.

13. I've brought you the forms to fill in.

14. He got a telegram to say his aunt had had a stroke.

15. The terrace was crowded with women drinking tea.

16. There was a letter waiting for him at the desk.

17. I strapped the watch on my wrist with trembling fingers.

18. It was an easy tree to climb.

19. They said good-bye and got into the waiting car.

20. I suppose that's a very difficult question to answer.

21. He closed his eyes and dozed in the swiftly moving car.

22. Just then he heard running steps.

23. In ten minutes he went downstairs' to the hall and could not find place to sit.

24. The woman looked at the sleeping child.

Ex. 49.

{Note: With nouns that may be followed by either an infinitive or an irtg-form as attributes, the key to the exercises gives the variant found in the original.)

1.	to control	17. of mentioning	34.	of	my running
2.	to take over, to	18. of teaching	35.	to	give
	direct	19. of being	36.	to	ask
3.	of doing	20. of avoiding	37.	to	be re-united
4.	to check	21. to carry	38.	to	get
5.	to interfere	22. of talking	39.	of	pacifying
6.	of finding	23. of being parted	40.	of	... writing
7.	of spending	24. to explain	41.	to	get
8.	of belonging,	25. of showing off	42.	of	meeting
	of being	26. to meet	43.	of	going
9.	of buying	27. to put	44.	to	mark
10.	of saying	28. to talk	45.	to	be worried
11.	of taking	29. to find	46.	of	tracing
12.	of answering	30. of being	47.	of	being
13.	of being seen	31. to say	48.	of	leaving
14.	to transfer	32. of knowing	49.	to	listen
15.	of being received	33. of hurting,
16.	of adding	of being

Ex. 50.

(See Note to Ex. 49.)