1. Strickland was certainly forty, and I thought it disgusting that a man of his age __ himself with affairs of the heart, (to concern) (Maugham) 2. He brightened as if he __ a gift. (to. receive) (Lawrence) 3, I wish you __ me alone now. (to leave) (Dreiser) 4. It's time I __ it out again from the beginning, (to think) (Snow) 5. When I suggested that he __ to bed he said he could not sleep. (to go) (Maugham) 6....glancing sidelong at his nephew, he thought: "I wish I __ his age!" (to be) (Galsworthy) 7. If I __ you and __ going to be a banker, I __ first __ a year or so in some good grain and commission house, (to be, to be, to spend) (Dreiser) 8. "God __ us always," I said, "from the innocent and the good." (to save) (Greene) 9. She held her baby up to the window that she __ the pretty silvery tinkle of the little bells on the pagoda, (to hear) (Buck) 10. She had a conviction that, long as she __, her aunt would live at least as long, and always retain her brilliancy and activity, (to live) (James) 11. The arrangement was that Miss Everdene __ them by coming there for a day or two... (to honour) (Hardy) 12. She was by now feeling so happy that she __ for joy if it __ for the delicious spell which she felt herself to be under and which still enjoined silence, (to shout, to be negative) (Murdoch) 13. Why __ he __ the one to hurt her, when really he had wanted to be her friend from the beginning? (to be) (Saroyan) 14. For a fortnight it was necessary that someone __ with him all night, and she took turns at watching with her husband, (to stay) (Maugham) 15. Lady Bracknell, I admit with shame that I do not know. I only wish I __ (to do) (Wilde) 16. Hunter was anxious that a certain person __ it. (to see negative) (Murdoch) 17. Except for the unexpectedly sad lines which ran from his nose to the corners of his mouth he __ like a boy. (to look) (Mailer) 18. Her face looked strange, as if she __ to cry and __ how. (to want, to forget) (Galsworthy) 19. But I still don't begin to understand why these people, however silly they __ about their beliefs, __ ready to risk murder, (to be, to be) (Priestley) 20. They were a pleasant pair, and I told myself it was far better that Avice __ him than Roger. (to marry) (Snow) 21. Heaven __ me, I left you alone with that scoundrel, (to forgive) (Shaw) 22. Mrs. Mann gave him a piece of bread-and-butter, Test he __ too hungry when he got to the work-house. (to seem) (Dickens) 23. He was still puffing and blowing as if he __ just __ a mile, (to run) (Priestley) 24. I regret to say, Miss Chiltern, that I have no influence at all over my son. I wish I __.. If I __, I know what I __ him do. (to have, to have, to make) (Wilde) 25. "I want to marry Aileen," Cowperwood repeated, for emphasis' sake. "She wants to marry me. Under the circumstances, however you __, you can have no real objection to my doing that, I am sure." (to feel) (Dreiser) 26. Besides, it's high time you __ down, (to settle) (Maugham) 27. Sir Gregory Hatchland was a poor public speaker,... but he had seen to it that there some good speakers on the platform, (to be) (Priestley) 28. She ran down to her cabin that she __ the ship pulling away and widening the chasm between her and her beloved shore, (to see negative) (Buck) 29. I wish you __ me. (to interrupt negative) (Maugham) 30. There had been a time when I __ surprised to see girls like Avice and Tonia drink spirits, but I had come to accept it as another of the things which are inevitable in these troubled days of ours and I could not see any possible reason why they __ whisky if they liked it. (to be, to drink negative) (Snow) 31. Far __ it from me to marry any woman on account of her money, (to be) (Trotlope) 32. Your father tells me you think highly of his accomplishments whatever they __ (to be) (Lindsay) 33. A little Jater Fox suggested that he __ her a monthly allowance, in addition to the rent of the room, (to pay) (Murdoch) 34. She __ to bed last night just as if nothing __ if I __ her. (to go, to happen, to let) (Shaw) 35. She [Aileen] was greatly outraged to think you __ detectives on her trail, (to put) (Dreiser) 36. Perhaps, if such a thing __ again, Mrs. de Winter will tell me personally? (to happen) (Du Maurier) 37. It seemed to me important that the weather __, not the least cloud __ on the horizon; I was almost frightened to stare too long at the colour of the water lest it __ or darken by the least degree, (to change negative, to appear, to dull) (Hansford Johnson) 38. He wished now that he __ to look at. Fleur's portrait; it __ him something to talk of. (to stop, to give) (Galsworthy) 39. My people told me this story about the man so that I __ what a fool he was and not be like him. (to understand) (Saroyan) 40. I am feeling very drowsy, and it is time I __ to bed. (to go) (Maugham) 41. As she spoke to me she was glancing about the bar, her gaze hopping from one face to the next, as if it __ imperative that she __ nothing of what was going on in a shrivelling world, no matter how trivial it __ (to be, to miss, to be) (Hansford Johnson) 42. I wish you __ with your work instead of interrupting me all the time, (to get on) (Maugham) 43. Why __ there __ one law for men, and another for women? (to be) (Wilde) 44. She proposed that in a little while she and 1 __ married, (to get) (Coppard) 45. Anything's better than to sit there as if you __ you __ a thousand miles away, (to wish, to be) (Shaw)
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Exercise 12. Translate into English, using the Subjunctive Mood. (Based on an episode from David Copperfield by Ch. Dickens.)
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