EXERCISE 3. Translate the following sentences paying attention to the verbs in bold types

Translate the following sentences paying attention to the verbs in bold types. Point out their different meaning.

1. He continued to ask about my affairs from where we left off on the night of the examination.

2. She said she would better ask Major Brutt to dinner with us.

3. Katherine answered questions before I had asked them, as she saw my eyes looking curiously round the room.

4. Her hair, simply done, was of a sandy brown.

5. He looked as though for many years he had done himself too well.

6. From all the reading I had done… I knew you didn’t do anything if you stayed in a rut.

7. I’ll go and see them in the morning and get the details.

8. I might have got a job when I got to London.

9. Tom got us sitting in the armchairs on opposite sides of the fire, ordered drinks, dumped himself on the sofa between us.

10. He took the mugs down to the bank and washed them in the river.

11. “I expect I can take it that your father is right,” said Philip.

12. Her face took a tender look.

13. But I don’t intend to take advantage of you, my dear Eliot.

14. He argued that man has come to have skill in handling animals.

15. “Well, you have come a way,” he said. “I do feel so flattered, darling.” “I came in a taxi.”

16. The work didn’t break me, it was the only thing which made me stronger in many ways…

17. The noise broke into him, sunk him down to reality like cold water entering a ship.

18. Cheer up, we all have our little troubles, I’m sure you didn’t mean to break that thermometer.

19. “It could turn to pneumonia” the doctor said. “But fortunately you followed all my directions and recovered.”

20. I turned and recognized the first obstacle in my professional path.