Конструкции и комплексы с инфинитивом
1. Mrs. June Makin woke early to findtwo burglars carrying her TV set from her home.
2. New steps to fightpollution of rivers have been announced in Wales and Scotland.
3. Theboy, believed to have been kidnapped,came home after missing for two days.
4. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization was said to be concernedthat many countries had been turning to breadwhere it had not previously figured in their diet.
5. I woke one morning to find myself famous.
6. Each time the door opened Martin looked round, only tosee the Mounteneyes enter, then the Puchweins.
7. The light died down to leavethe room darker than before.
8. Yesterday's Cabinet was the first of a series which are concentrating on deciding the amount of money to be allocatedto the various Government departments for the financial year starting in April.
9. When I returned to Berlin, in the autumn of 1932, I duly rang Bernhard up, only to be toldthat he was away, on business, in Hamburg. (Ch. Isherwood)
10. She was still I felt my anger leave me, to be replaced byan absorbing depression. (А. Мыто)
11. Dozing in his chair, he woke up, stiff and cold, to find himself draineddry, as it were, of every emotion. (A. Huxley)
12. Dick burst into the room, to be received witha hug which nearly cracked his ribs, as Torpenhow dragged him into the light and spoke of twenty different things in the same breath. (R. Kipling)
13. I arrived in town and had a most affecting interview with my mother who only recovered from her swoon at my return to go into hystericsat the beautiful shawls I had brought her. (E. Bulwer-Lytton)
14. British officials have pronounced the IRA dead before, only to have it come back to haunt them.("Nsw.")
15. I once travelled over miles of snow-covered roads in search of an isolated farmhouse only to be greeted bya pack of wolfhounds waiting to devour meif I opened my car door. ("IHT")
16. Since the October War of 1973, Hosni Mubarak has been Anwar Sadat's most loyal follower. For years he sat in obscurity at his President's side, quietly taking notes. Henry Kissinger once assumed he was a junior aide, only to learn laterthat he was the Vice President of Egypt. ("Nsw.")
17. Susan sought for something nasty to sayto Reg. (A. Wilson)
18. "That's all right," Wilbourne said. "Two many people have already seen the telegram for it to be private."(W. Faulkner)
19. I have treasured the painting ever since. For it to be stolenfrom me was an extreme shock as it was of great sentimental value. ("G.")
20. I also feel tempted to saythat novelists are the only group of people who should write a column. Their interests are large, if shallow, their habits are sufficiently unreliable for them to findsomething new to sayquite often, and in most other respects they are more columnistic than the columnists. (N. Mailer)
21. Community, church and civic organizations offer opportunities for Americans to transcendpersonal interests in order to see the shining dream of freedom and hope for all America's people become a complete, unabridged reality. ("IHT" Jan. 8, 91)
22. You went suddenly after lunch, leaving one of your most offensive letters behind with the butler to be handed to meafter your departure. (0. Wilde)
23. "Oh, she's upset all right," the Judge said with a certain contentment. "But Verena's not a woman to come down with anythingan aspirin could not fix." (T. Capote)
24. The Chairman of Nottingham Trades Council is to askhis council to vigorously protestthat public money is used to conditionBritish people to acceptthe idea of war through "almost Goebbels-type propaganda." (" VS," Oct. 81)
25. Authorities in Germany's North Rhine-Westphalia state are seeking new uses for the secret bomb shelters built after the Cuban missile crisis. The bunkers, intended for government officials, are air- conditioned and large enough for 120 people to live in.("IHT," Jan. 14,93)
26. From the outside, the squat flat-roofed buildings of Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology are nothing much to look at.("G.," Oct. 1,91)
27. They squat and somehow live on the roofs of their destroyed homes, but in some place there aren't any roofs to squat on.(" G., "Sept. 20, 91)
28. "In any event the system of governance in Europe is going to have to change to accommodatethe new realities if we are to keep faithwith our democracies," one senior EC Commissioner commented in the European parliament in Strasbourg yesterday. ("G.," April 8,92)
29. Driving over she passed by Zapf's Used Books and was alarmed to finda pile of charred rubble where the bookstore only a week ago stood. (T. Pynchon)
30. In those days art critics in London with a knowledge of Australian art were hard to come by. ("T.,"May24,93)
31. In his forthcoming book "The Intellectuals and the Masses", John Carley, Professor of English at Oxford, makes a devastating case that throughout this century the intellectual elite — people like Forster, Lawrence, Pound, Virginia Woolf, Wyndham Lewis — entertained such a profound fear and revulsion against the masses that they created a culture to exclude them.("G.")