1.Also she spoke in a curiously loud and rising tone… what she said echoed audibly all the way down the room (Murdoch). 2. The activity of translating of which had seemed the plainest thing in the world, turned out to be an act so complex and extraordinary… it was puzzling to see how any human being could perform it (Murdoch). 3. None of them had seen the Marcians, and they had but the vaguest ideas of them … they pilled me with questions (Wells). 4. Whenever I have gone there have been either so many people … I have not been able to see the pictures, which was dreadful, or so many pictures … I have not been able to see the people, which was worse (Wilde). 5. The Marriage of Soames with Annette took place in Paris on the last day of January 1901 with such privacy … not even Emily was told it was accomplished ( Galsworthy). 6. Bosinney’s office was in Slone Street, close at hand … he would be able to keep his eyes continually on the plans (Galsworthy). 7. But the inflections of the English verb are so scanty … we need not to be surprised to find that the distinction between indicative and subjunctive is very slight (Sweet).