① Each girl kept her love a secret.
② They elected him president.
③ What do you call this flower?
④ I think it better not to try.
⑤ Mother cut my hair too short.
⑥ She pushed the door shut.
⑦ He threw the door open.
⑧ I don’t like my eggs raw.
⑨ He shouted himself hoarse.
⑩ I don’t like my coffee strong.
⑪ Three spoonfuls of sugar? You like your tea sweet!
⑫ We considered his remarks of great importance.
⑬ A sudden noise scared me out of my senses.
⑭ After hours of discussion we finally found ourselves in agreement.
⑮ The tremendous noise caused everybody to start.
⑯ If you can get a child learning to walk to fix his eyes on any object, he will generally walk to that point without failing.
⑰ We believe it to have been a mistake.
⑱ I felt my heart beat with joy.
⑲ Did you perceive anyone come in?
⑳ We had a fire break out last night.
㉑ I had two dogs die of snakebite.
㉒ Seeing his daughter every night and morning, without fail, look into the mirror, and seem to talk with it, her father at length asked her the reason for her strange behaviour.
㉓ Nobody will willingly let one of those pretty homes, built by our forefathers some centuries ago, fall into decay.
㉔ I saw a dog running after my car.
㉕ I sat in the boat playing the flute, and saw the fish, which I seemed to have charmed, gathering around me.
㉖ I don’t like such subjects discussed.
㉗ I watched the basis on which European freedoms had seemed to rest, destroyed.
㉘ I’ll have you arrested.
㉙ Climbing is probably the only sport which leaves those who do not enjoy it completely bewildered as to the motives and state of mind of those who do. To most people the climber is at best harmlessly eccentric, and at worst foolhardy and selfish.