Exercise 4, p. 213

1. I hesitated to bother you. 2. Not if you have difficulty

(in) finding the time. 3. No one unless you have confided it

to someone. 4 . I had some difficulty (in) getting here. My car

broke down. 5. I did have difficulty (in) obtaining it. In all

the big bookstores they told me it was out of print, but

I managed to find it in an obscure small bookshop on the

outskirts of the city. 6. Oh, yes, she gave such a yell/scream

that it could have roused the dead. 7. Yes, I was told that

someone had given him a push. 8. I’m in two minds. That’s

just what I’m thinking over now. 9. That’s precisely what you

mustn’t do. She will just make you a scene. 10. I don’t know

a more delightful place to spend my holiday in. 11. That’s

precisely what I can’t do. I have asthma and dusting the flat

may provoke an attack. 12. Oh, yes, I’m a connoisseur of art

and know a good picture when I see it. 13. Yes, I know good

poetry when I see it. 14. Yes, that’s precisely/just what you

ought to do.