Exercise 20. Analyse the Predicative Constructions. Translate into Russian

1. The sound of the door opening again made him start like a guilty thing. (Murdoch) 2. He really strolled about, thinking, and then, the weather being cold, stepped into a hotel. (Dreiser) 3. He heard her answer him, words dropping with a soft, tender, cooling touch into the heat of his brain. (Greene) 4. I can't imagine your coming to see me at a time when you are fully satisfied with your life and work. (Caldwell) 5. After all these years it really is not worth while for you to play hide-and-seek with one another. (Maugham) 6. Calvin... departed laughing, and could be heard laughing and sneezing all the way down the stairs. (Murdoch) 7. He was afraid of the strike continuing a few days longer, of more taxes, of a"Government defeat. (Greene) 8. Day after day through the spring no rains fell, and farmers, waiting for the floods of the rainy season to fill their rice-fields, saw their young crops dry up before their eyes. (Buck) 9. He watchend her at evening, sitting by the lamp, with the mending on her lap, in the shabby livingroom. (Lessing) 10. 1 won't have Carl talk that way. (Hemingway) 11. Every night the old man would have a fire of logs lit in the great stone fire-place. (Buck) 12. Cn his will being opened, after a decent interval, it was found to consist of two portions. (James) 13....we had heard planes coming, seen them pass overhead, watched them go far to the left and heard them bombing on the main high road. (Hemingway) 14. The film was not bad, but I could feel impatience radiating from her and knew she was longing for it to end. (Hansford Jchnson) 15. She was moving towards the door, her head reverted, her heels clattering. (Faulkner) 16. I never knew, when' we planned to meet, in what, mood I should be likely to find her. (Hansford Johnson) 17. You can have no idea of... how I have missed the thought of your being near me somewhere! (Horgan) 18. I had heard these topics argued between the Americans and ourselves for years. (Snow) 19. She appeared to be very rich and important... (Priestley) 20. The sound of Mistress Affery cautiously chaining the door before she opened it, caused them both to/look that way. (Dickens) 21. The sun rose higher and soon it would be time for the others to come home for the noon meal. (Buck); 22. She heard Miss Reba's voice booming from somewhere and listened to her toiling slowly up the stairs. (Faulkner) 23. We both knew that her marriage to Skidmore was supposed to have been an abnormally happy one. (Snow) 24. Carefully and slowly, with his eyes fixed on her, he stepped down. (Qreene) 25. Our little country newspaper is sure to chronicle the fact next week. (Wilde)

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