1. They reproached themselves for having failed him/for
having let him down. After all he had been within a hair’s
breadth (hairbreadth) of dying/he had escaped death by
a hair’s breadth (hairbreadth) and had been saved by a miracle.
2. Smoking is bad for one’s health. It is imperative for
both the young and the old to give it up/drop it./It is imperative
that both the young and the old (should) give it up
(drop it).
4. His car was stolen last week./He had his car stolen last
week. The police haven’t found it yet, but they are doing their
best.
5. Would you mind coming next Tuesday? A friend of Tomas’s
is going to read us the next chapter of his new book.
6. Never will I be able to guess what is going on in this pretty
head of yours!
7. Never will I put this dress on again/put on this dress again!
8. I will always love you (I will love you forever) because you
are you.
9. Today you saved my life for a second time. You are really
one of the brave!
10. We met a lot of foreigners in the camping: one Swiss,
two Dutchmen, several Danes, one Spaniard and three
Portuguese.
11. Is this an Ayvazovsky or a Repin? - Why, it is the picture
“Pushkin by the Sea” painted by both Ayvazovsky and Repin.
12. Cows, horses, sheep and bulls are livestock*. Livestock
provides us with a great number/with many foodstuffs as well as
leather and wool.
13. On hearing the news, which was sad, she couldn’t help
bursting into tears.
14. Don’t insist on my leaving. I’ve come here for my children’s
sake.
15. The professor who had just delivered his lecture began
answering the students’s questions.
16. Don’t insist on being paid that money. It is not yours, you
haven’t earned it.
17. The President said that his goal was to make the poor rich
and the rich still richer.
18. Not knowing the rules of the game, they left without taking
part in it.
19. Why, I do know his secret. - So do I.
20. The number of people studying English is growing every
year. - Yes, knowing English is a must for the cultured and the
educated.
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* You can ’t use the word cattlehere as it denotes only cows and bulls.