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3. Another half-hour was neither here nor there for the doctor, and he would go and rouse him as soon as Doreen arrived. (D. Cusack) 4. He lived, of course, in the drawing-room, and the lack of air and exercise began to tell sadly on his health. (S. Leacock) 5. He had half a mind to ask her what made her choose that colour scheme. (J. Wain) 6. Their marriage was announced for the immediate future. Rodger was very happy. He was committing a good action and at the same time doing something he had very much a mind to. (S. W. Maugham) 7. Look at the chaps in politics and business, whose whole lives were passed in skating on thin ice, and getting knighted for it. They never turned a hair. And look at himself, for the forty years on thin ice, and suffering confoundedly. (J. Galsworthy) 8. So before I knew where I was I was inside the baker's office. (A. Sillitoe) 9. "Perhaps that'll teach you not to be so cocksure another time, my young friend," said Ramsay as he took the note. (W. S. Maugham) 10. Who is this young woman who goes out stealthily like this, and meets a young man, and comes back feeling as if she had been treading on air? (J. Galsworthy) 11. Paraphrase the following sentences using the word combinations studied. 44
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