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Say it in Ukrainian.


Date: 2015-10-07; view: 485.


Think of the situations where you could use the following phrases.

Make the following phrases complete choosing the nouns on the right.

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a large sum of money demanded in exchange for someone or something taken or stolen

 

as hungry as as dead as as nervous as as thin as as neat as as like as as fit as as black as as busy as as clear as as old as as pale as two peas a fiddle a bee a crow day a new pin the hills a ghost a cat a doornail a hunter a rail / a rake

 

But yes, yes, I understand perfectly.

I don't believe a word of it.

I was all against it at first – but now!

There seemed no end.

We shall come to that later.

I have never mentioned it to her.

If I arrive this afternoon, will it suit you?

I don't see that that helps us much.

What do you make of this?

There is one thing that strikes me.

That is a very good point.

I have no doubt of that.

 

a) I won't have anything more to do with the police.

b) Nobody goes about kidnapping children and holding them up to ransom.

c) They didn't seem to take the thing very seriously.

d) She denied having pinned the note to my pillow – she may have been speaking the truth.

e) There is a big grandfather clock there, and as the hands drew near to twelve I don't mind saying that I was as nervous as a cat.

f) There was a whirring sound, and the clock began to strike.

g) It had the following words: “You should have paid up”.

h) It was the man who drove it who shouted, but that was not what gave me a shock of horror.

i) It was exactly twelve o'clock.

j) Someone must have tampered with it, because I have never known it gain or lose before.

k) He was to approach the house through the grounds and knock at the side door.

l) Even then, he could have poisoned Mrs. Waverly, pinned the note to the pillow, put on the clock, and swept out the priest's hole.

m) Up I drove to Scotland Yard again.

 


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