Exercise 1. State the function of the infinitive. Translate into Russian.

1. A man must have something bigger than himself to believe in. (Jones)

2. It was impossible not to invite the Butters for both afternoon and evening. (Dreiser)

3. The heat and dust were enough to strangle you. (Cain)

4. To cut a long story short, the infant that's just gone out of the room is not your son. (Maugham)

5. ... the next thing to be done is to move away from this house. (Eliot)

6. All the deep maternity in her awoke, never to sleep again. (Buck)

7. He paused as if to find a way to phrase his next thoughts. (Mailer)

8. Nobody asked you to come out here. I didn't ask you to stay. I told you to go while it was daylight. (Faulkner)

9. It was too hot to go out into the town. (Hemingway)

10. The prospective buyer is someone who is not, to put it mildly, a sup­porter of female emancipation. To consent to this sale would be to consent to change the character of the newspaper altogether. (Murdoch)

11. He has been one of the first to become interested in the development of the street-car system. (Dreiser)

12. The floor of the forest was soft to walk on... (Hemingway)

13. He was a man to attract immediate sympathy. (Maugham)

14. He knew he must say anything at all in order to establish communication with her. (Horgan)

15. After all, you're young enough to be my son. (Clark)

16. To begin with, he did not like the way his editor... had spoken to him that morning. (Priestley)

17. To make the real decisions, one's got to have the real power. (Snow)

18. To know all is to forgive all. (Priestley)

19. Other people, men particularly, found it difficult to face Cowperwood's glazed stare. (Dreiser)

20. It must be awful to have a brilliant future behind you. (Snow)

21. She makes a gesture as if to touch him. (Shaw)

22. Indeed, she had nowhere to go. (Murdoch)

23. To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. (Wilde)

24. He found the sky so pallid as to be almost invisible. (Baum)

25. He dropped back, so as to let me get on a level with him. (Collins)

26. When he met Savina at the station, she came to him with a joyous expression of anticipation to find his troubled silence. (Wilson)

27. Rubin did not, in any case, find it easy to be as direct as Roger. (Snow)

28. True insincerity is hard to find. (Priestley)

29. She leaned forward with kindled eyes as if to im­press the word on the inspector. (Lindsay)

30. She's a spoiled child not to be trusted. (Galsworthy)

31. It is against all ethical concepts of medical science to pronounce a death verdict to a grave­ly ill person. (Baum)

32. His age was difficult to guess. (Wilson)

33. They were the last to come. (Maugham)

34. I awoke a little after sunrise to find Evan gone. (Hansford Johnson)

35. Truth to tell, he wanted to say a great deal. (Dreiser)

36. Her large eyes were of a blue so pale as to be almost white. (Murdoch)

37. Her first proceeding... was to unlock a tall press, bring out several bottles, and pour some of the contents of each into my mouth. (Dickens)

38. To lie is not my custom. Too much complication and uncomfort. (Baum)

39. I had many weary hours still to wait through. To while away the time, I looked at my letters. (Collins)

40. To begin with, Mrs. Anderson is a pleasanter person to live with than Mrs. Dudgeon. (Shaw)

41. With another look round at the furniture, as if to gauge his sister's exact position, Soames went out towards Piccadilly. (Galsworthy)

42. Three or four plans suggested themselves, only to be ruled out by their self-evident absurdity. (Hansford Johnson)

43. But the heat of the afternoon was, to say the least, oppressive. (Salinger)

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