10. I won't have you talk to me like that.

10. She smiled when she heard herself described as a middle-aged woman.

11. I was told to get the tea ready.

12. His story kept the people laughing.

13. She found the whole family assembled.

14. They had been doing the work so long that they could not imagine anyone not knowing about it.

15. He wanted a road made to the village.

16. I let him take me to the theatre.

17. She doesn't wish her whereabouts disclosed.

Ex. 69.

1. It was hard for me to convince them.

2. His illness made it impossible for him to take the opportunity.

3. It would have been better for him not to be told.

4. His presence made it possible for me to avoid a quarrel.

5. Lucy saw that I was anxious for her to make a good impression.

6. It turned out to be fairly difficult for him to stop the rumours.

7. He was looking for a quiet place for his family to rest.

8. There's nothing for any one of us to do under the circumstances.

9. It was an opportunity for her to speak to him alone.

10. I asked permission for Tom to stay with us another week.

11. It seems strange for him to have written such an article.

12. It's a privilege for me to meet a man like John Bailey.

13. It will be a pleasure for him to arrange everything for their arrival.

14. It would be a pity for them to waste so much effort.

15. It was thoughtful of you to come today.

16. We all of us waited for the letter to come.

17. It's perfectly wonderful of Dan to have found you.

18. I was very anxious for him to start work.

19. It was a relief for me to get away from home.

20. It would be convenient for them not to involve him.

21. It was an effort for him to call her up.

22. It's nice of him to be interested in my affairs.

23. I closed the door tight for us not to be disturbed.

24. He gestured for me to leave.

Ex. 70.

1. He complained about it being too cold in his room.

2. He often spoke of the necessity of his finding a well-paid job but made no move to do so.

3. There was some mention in the letter of Mrs Braine being taken ill.

4. She cried out for help. But she had no hope of help coming.

5. She didn't like the idea of her son sharing a room with some rough boy.

6. He told her of there being a chance of their son getting a better job.

T. She was tortured by the thought of her baby being looked after by strangers.

8. When he announced the date of his sailing she could not contain her joy.

9. Julia took the cigarette away without his noticing it.

10. Your father insists on your being educated in Oxford.

11. He promised to write her a letter and she awaited its coming impa­tiently.

Ex. 71.

1. I saw him sitting at the window with one hand lying half clenched on the table.

2. It's the only house down there, with nobody around to snoop.

3. She was breathing deeply, with her lips parted and her cheeks flushed.

4. She was weeping openly, with her eyes fixed at him.

5. With Mary teaching him, he learned to speak proper English very quickly.

6. I can't sleep with the radio playing.

7. A window lit up on the third floor, someone working late.

8. I went away from them late at night with the weight of anxiety light­ened.

9. He was lying on his back with his eyes closed.

10. Julia with nothing better to do attended the lectures.

11. She saw Pat sitting on the floor with photographs scattered all around her.

Ex. 72.

1. Having addressed the envelope she threw the card in the waste-paper basket.

2. It was a love affair that was supposed to have been going on so long that it had stopped being talked about.

3. They happened to be dining at Dolly's that day.

4. It was nice of him to have suggested that.

5. He doesn't seem to have written any new plays.

6. Having paid the driver, he looked at his wife standing in the open doorway and lighted up by the setting sun.

7. A sense of timing is one of the things I seem to have learnt from Jimmy.

8. He appeared to be enjoying our company.

9. She was said not to have taken any decision yet.

10. She is rumoured to have been advised not to marry Teddy.

11. He is known to have been wounded three times during the war.

12. I felt the intense sense of being watched.

13. I don't remember ever having been near their house.

14. Chris didn't feel like being laughed at.

15. Never having borrowed money before, he found a number of people who were willing to lend him small sums.

16. I detested being wished good luck.

Nouns

Ex. 2.

1. lives

2. were

3. were

4. were

5. was

6. were

7. have got

8. have known

9. are

10. are

11. were called

12. don't think

13. are requested

14. were

15. were

16. swim

Ex. 4.

17. was practising

18. are having, are coming

19. is playing

20. is (was)

21. are being cleaned

22. is

23. are

24. are

25. is

26. are

27. have discussed (have been discussing)

28. has decided

29. were

l°- ^has ... interested

ol. is

32. have found

33. were (are)

34. was

35. were

36. was

37. were sitting

38. is going

39. are (being)

40. is

41. were

42. were

43. was

44. is

45. has ... been

32. Her doll's face showed her irritation.

33. He went through the secretary's room without looking at her.

34. I spent one week visiting with a friend of my mother's who lived in London.

35. A woman's voice behind me softly spoke my name.

36. That was the decision of an experienced man.

37. There's a long article of Peter's about it in this evening's paper.

38. Gerald raised his eyebrows. "You have very strange views of a father's functions," he said.

39. The next morning I gave the baby its first bottle of cow's milk.

40. "I shan't have fish," Robin said with the importance of the eldest child.

32. 13

    14 15

    I'm afraid we are going to be late at John's.

33. There was a moment's silence.

34. He used to refer to his profession as a dog's life. . After the university she taught for a year or two in a good girls school in the north of England.

He'd never forget his friend's kindness. , _Qj ^