Choose the right preposition: My desire to marry him had to be stimu lated _ the continual reading of books about Babylon and Assyria; perhaps Skinny felt this, because he supplied the books and even started instructing me in the art of deciphering cuneiform tables
(*ответ*) by
Choose the right preposition: Nevertheless he was back again next week. Poor Kathleen had brought him _ her car
(*ответ*) in
Choose the right preposition: Not another soul passed by as he pressed my body into the stack, as he made a deep nest _ me, tearing up the hay to make a groove the length of my corpse, and finally pulling the warm dry stuff in a mound over this concealment, so natural-looking in a broken haystack
(*ответ*) for
Choose the right preposition: One day in my young youth _ high summer, lolling with my lovely companions upon a haystack I found a needle
(*ответ*) at
Choose the right preposition: One Saturday in recent years I was mooching down the Portobello Road, threading among the crowds _ marketers on the narrow pavement when I saw a woman
(*ответ*) of
Choose the right preposition: Really I should not care to be so young _heart again
(*ответ*) of
Choose the right preposition: She had a haggard careworn wealthy look, thin but for the breasts forced-up high like a pigeon’s. I had not seen her _ nearly five years
(*ответ*) for
Choose the right preposition: She left it _ the top of the street and got out with him, holding him tight by the arm
(*ответ*) at
Choose the right preposition: She too was getting on _ years
(*ответ*) in
Choose the right preposition: Shortly afterwards the byre-hand emigrated to Canada to start afresh, _ the help of Skinny who felt sorry for him
(*ответ*) with
Choose the right preposition: Sometimes as occasion arises on a Saturday morn ing, my friend Kathleen, who is a Catholic, has a Mass said _ my soul, and then I am in attendance as it were at the church
(*ответ*) for
Choose the right preposition: That is my thought every time I turn over my old papers and come across the photograph. Skinny, Kathleen, and myself are _ the photo atop the haystack
(*ответ*) in
Choose the right preposition: The poor byre-hand who sold us the milk was grilled for hour after hour _ the local police, and later by Scotland Yard. So was George. He admitted walking as far as the haystack with me, but he denied lingering there
(*ответ*) by
Choose the right preposition: The remainder of our families _ Scotland were hinting that it was time we settled down with husbands
(*ответ*) in
Choose the right preposition: There is a pleasurable spread of objects on the counters which I now perceive and exploit _ a certain detachment, since it suits with my condition of life
(*ответ*) with
Choose the right preposition: They took him _ a nursing home. He was fairly quiet, except on Saturday mornings when they had a hard time of it to keep him indoors and away from the Portobello Road
(*ответ*) to
Choose the right preposition: When Saturdays are fine I go instead _ the Portobello Road where formerly I would jaunt with Kathleen in our grown-up days
(*ответ*) to
Choose the right preposition: “You hadn’t seen your friend _ ten years?” the In spector asked him
(*ответ*) for
Choose the right preposition: That is how I came to be _the Portobello Road that Saturday morning when I saw George and Kath leen
(*ответ*) in
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: A pound a week I’ve (to be) sending up to now, that’s fifty-two pounds a year. I would never have done it, calling herself a Catholic with birth control by her bedside
(*ответ*) been
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: A voice spoke to him softly through the star-shaped hole in the door. “Don’t worry, Mr. Thomas,” it said, “we won’t hurt you, not if you (to stay) quiet.”
(*ответ*) stay
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: After a while it seemed to him that there were sounds in the silence — they (to be) faint and came from the direction of his house
(*ответ*) were
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: And she told me she (to go) to Mass every Sunday, and all the kids go excepting James
(*ответ*) goes
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Better book a private ward, we’ll (to manage) the expense
(*ответ*) manage
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: But whatever conclusion you come to, please don’t (to upset) your wife at this stage. She has already refused to feed the child, says it isn’t hers, which is ridiculous.
(*ответ*) upset
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Even the fan-light had been left (to unbreak) by the bomb’s blast. Somewhere somebody whistled
(*ответ*) unbroken
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: He sat by her bed, (to bewilder). Presently a nurse beckoned him from the door
(*ответ*) bewildered
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: He stood up and peered through the ventilation-hole — between the cracks in one of the shutters he saw a light, not the light of a lamp, but the wavering light that a candle might (to give)
(*ответ*) give
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: He thought of burglars — perhaps they had employed the boy as a scout, but why should burglars (to engage) in what sounded more and more like a stealthy form of carpentry? Mr. Thomas let out an experimental yell, but nobody answered
(*ответ*) engage