1. I can’t help worrying/feeling nervous. There is so much to
do: to have my hair cut, to have my nails manicured, to have my
shoes fixed/mended/repaired and to take the clothes to the
cleaner’s.
2. I remember once being advised that the best way to lose
weight is to cook badly/to be a bad cook.
3. Not recognizing us, the policemen passed us by/walked
past us without as much as paying any attention to the
smashed car.
4. I can’t imagine you/your having been refused. You are just
the man to fill this office.
5. Fixing his gaze at/Staring at the ceiling (His eyes fixed on
the ceiling), Dick began singing in an unfamiliar tongue.
6. There is no denying that he is very hard/difficult to deal
with. Although to tell the truth he is interesting to speak to.
7. The postman who has been bringing us the mail for many
years, says that he is too old to continue to do this job.
8. The boss entered the office to discover unexpectedly that
all the employees had gone home.
9. One could hear them debate something heatedly. There
was no time to lose. It was time to make a decision.
10. I am tired of my parents treating me as/like a child. But
the situation/set-up already can’t be changed.
11. The man who has brought this note is waiting for an
answer downstairs.
12. The girl stopped crying only when her mother stopped to
buy her a chocolate.
13. This water can’t be drunk. It must be filtered.
14. We roamed (about) the wood/forest, the moon rising
slowly over the trees.
15. I was reproached for being late and having kept everybody
waiting.