6. Fill in the missing verb. Choose from the box, using each verb once only.

bear

beg

break

call

catch

chair

change

do

draw

drive

drop

earn

fall

foot

hold

keep

lay

lead

lose

pay

play

put

resist

run

set

tell

throw

use

waste

work

1) to _______ a hard bargain; 2) to _______ one's mind; 3) to _______ someone to death; 4) to _______ force; 5) to _______ a grudge; 6) to _______ a habit; 7) to _______ a living; 8) to _______ a visit; 9) to _______ heart; 10) to _______ a hint; 11) to _______ a lie; 12) to _______ a busy life; 13) to _______ in love; 14) to _______ one's breath; 15) to _______ a miracle; 16) to _______ someone names; 17) to _______ a meeting; 18) to _______ someone's pardon; 19) to _______ a party; 20) to _______ the bill; 21) to _______ time in prison; 22) to _______ a secret; 23) to _______ sight of someone; 24) to _______ the line at something; 25) to _______ fire to something; 26) to _______ the table; 27) to _______ temptation; 28) to _______ time; 29) to _______ truant; 30) to _______ a business.

7. Pick out all the phraseological units from the following sentences and state which of them are (1) fusions, (2) unities, (3) word combinations.

1. They were compelled by some devilish accident of birth or lack of force or resourcefulness to stew in their own juice of wretchedness. (Th. Dr.)

2. ..."I'd like to have a day or two in which to think it over..."

"Why, certainly, certainly, Mr. Cowperwood," replied Stener genially. "That's all right. Take your time." (id.)

3. It was now that he began to take a keen interest in objects or art, pictures, bronzes, little carvings and figurines, for his cabinets, pedestals, tables and etageres. (id.)

4. "Fool of a lad! I swear you might have had her." "By what token, Mrs. Yorke?"

"By every token. By the light of her eyes, the red of her cheeks: red they grew when your name was mentioned, though of custom they are pale."

"My chance is quite over, I suppose?"

"It ought to be; but try: it is worth trying. I call this Sir Philip milk-and-water. And then he writes verses, they say — tags rhymes. You are above that, Bob, at all events."

"Would you advise me to propose, late as it is, Mrs. Yorke, at the eleventh hour?"

"You can but make the experiment, Robert. If she has a fancy for you — and, on my conscience, I believe she has, or had — she will forgive much. But, my lad, you are laugh-ing: is it at me? You had better grin at your own per-verseness. I see, however, you laugh at the wrong side of your mouth: you have as sour a look at this moment as one need wish to see." (Ch. B.)

5. "You never plotted to win a husband, I'll be bound," pursued Mrs. Yorke, "and you have not the benefit of previous experience to aid you in discovering when others plot." Caroline felt this "kind" language where the benevolent speaker intended she should feel it — in her very heart. She could not even parry the shafts: she was defenceless for the present: to answer would have been to avow that the cap fitted. Mrs. Yorke, looking at her as she sat with troubled downcast eyes... and figure expressing in its bent attitude and unconscious tremor all the humiliation and chagrin she experienced, felt the sufferer was fair game, (id.)

6. Jos, a clumsy and timid horseman, did not look to advantage in the saddle. "Look at him, Amelia dear.... Such a bull in a china shop I never saw." (Thack.)

7. In the end he parted friends with both Tighe and Rivers.

"That's a smart young fellow," observed Tighe, ruefully. "He'll make his mark," rejoined Rivers. (Th. Dr.)

8. ...unconscious of that gentleman's good opinion of himself, and of the service he had secretly rendered him in recommending him as gardener to Mr. Yorke... he continued to harbour a grudge against his austerity. (Ch. B.)