4.

Untortunately I sh a n ’t stay here long enough to visit many of the tourist

attractions.
5. I am not in the habit of sleeping in the atternoon.
6. The hotel w a s more ex p en siv e than any one w e had stayed in betore.
7. There has been a considerable increase in the cost of living in the last few years.
8. Mary su g g e ste d John and her going to Paris for the vveekend.
9. W e will break our journey in Prance on our way to Germany.
10. The m anaging director has no intention to resign.

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1. o th e r than to offer to lend her so m e m oney, how could I help?
2. Donald kept us waiting for two hours.
3. That puzzle would have been im possible to solve even for a genius.
4. The detective vvanted to find out if / vvhether Mr Johnston had b een out at
all that evening.
5. A s I had novvhere e ls e to go I slept in the station waiting-room.
6. I wish I could be in a seclu d ed beach in Mexico.
7. lf my children hadn’t vvanted a pet I wouldn't have bought the dog.
8. If only I could live in Paris for a year!
9. Is his knovvledge of Prench good enough for him to work a s a translator?
10. The reason I cannot go to the cinem a tonight is that I do not have my car.

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1. I can rem em ber an incident just a s m ysterious a s this one.
2. It w a s íoolish of him to sa y that,
3. It’s years sin ce I last w ent to a cricket match,
4. You n e e d n ’t have g o n e to so much trouble on my behalt.
5. A frost, which ca m e late, spoiled much of the truit crop.
6. That’s the man I lent my car to.
7. I don’t play the guitar a s well a s he d oes.
8. I ca n ’t m ake head or tail of this vvretched report.
9. A few days ago the vveather w a s much cooler than it is today.
10. Our car really m ust be serviced, m ustn’t it?

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1. That h o u se h a sn ’t b een lived in for years.
2. Although w e had vvarned him, he left cam p vvithout talking his ritle.

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3. 1’d rather you hadn’t vvritten that letter.
4. R egard less of vvhatever problems, w e m ust continue our efforts.
5. My so le purpose of Corning here w as to try and improve conditions.
6. The teacher shouted to the boys to m ake le s s noise.
7. If it should happen that nuclear vveapons are u sed, w e are all doom ed.
8. Two tablets should be taken every four hours.
9. W e find it difficult to m ake en d s m eet today.
10. They m oved here six years ago.

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1. VVhichever route you take, it will still take you about three hours to get there.
2. N o-one could find his passport anyvvhere.
3. A s soon a s w e receive your cheque, w e shall sen d the g o o d s to you.
4. He walked into the b o s s ’s office vvithout bothering to knock.
5. W e look forward to hearing another lecture by P roíessor Brown in the near
tuture.
6. S h e ’d rather go to Las V e g a s than anyvvhere in the world.
7. This new Computer vvorks in the way can’t understand.
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8. W e w ere disappointed by their attitude.
9. If it hadn’t been for your u n su sp ected talents a s a m echanic, w e would
have been stranded there for hours.
10. It's high time you acquired a few manners.

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1. S h e admitted to having taken the necklace.
2. What the headm aster said w a s very reassuring.
3. Are you getting along with your b o ss?
4. Most stu dents are capable of vvorking very hard w hen they feel like it.
5. I really wish I had invited her to the party.
6. Her uncle didn’t leave her anything in his will.
7. They stole everything excep t for the television.
8. No on e s e e m s to have predicted the correct result.
9. Even though they had been lost in the m ountains for three days, they
looked strong and healthy.
10. Hovvever long it may take, ril find that man.
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1. Could you possibly have left the key in the door?
2. He su g g e ste d inviting the Brovvns to the party on Sunday.
3. Betty is'devoted to looking atter handicapped people.
4. His physical condition s e e m s to be deteriorating slightly.

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5. No matter how much louder he can shout, I still w on’t take any notice.
6. The chairman vvondered who had been sitting in his chair.
7. That com m entator, w h o se nam e l’ve íorgotten, is very well known.
8. lt’s too m arvellous an opportunity for us to m iss.
9. If he hadn’t overeaten, he wouldn’t have had a heart attack.
10. W e have had the w hole of the íirst tloor finished by the decorators.

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1. The inspector a c c u sed him of stealing / having stolen the jew els.
2. If I w ere you, I vvould torget about buying a new hou se.
3. D espite the fact that the play received good notices, not many people went
to s e e it.
4. They had su ch a íierce dog that nobody would visit them.
5. I’d rather you didn’t sm ok e in here.
6. Andrew s u g g e ste d that w e (should) go for a walk in the park.
7. My application w a s the job w a s turned down.
8. Ann pleaded with her boyíriend not to drive so fast.
9. If it hadn’t been for his help, w e would all have died.
10. He is said to h ave e sc a p e d to a neutral country.

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1 If only your sister could com e a s weil.
.

2. There w a s se v e r e criticism (by many people) of the proposals for the new
motonA/ay.
3. Only by United opposition can w e eliminate world terrorism / can world
terrorism be eliminated.
Had his aunt not died and left / given him a legacy of £ 1 0 .0 0 0 he vvould not
have been able to buy the h o u se he wanted.
5. The stu dents regretted not attending the lecture.
6 If it hadn’t b een for my father’s m oney, w e couldn't have m anaged.
.

7. Not until he ca m e into the light did I recogn ise him.

8 Only atter a new pay offer did the workers call off the strike.
.

9. W e h aven ’t received the contirmation of our hotel booking.

10. A s long a s you keep calm, you will p a ss your driving test.

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1 . The rail vvorkers have no intention to call off their strike.
2 . There h as b een a dramatic rise in h ou se prices this year.
3. Only w hen their se co n d son w a s bom did Alice and Charles d ecid e to
m ove to a bigger house.

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