Автор - priorova96
1. Hardly had we left town when it began to rain.
2. The moon hadn't risen. There was nothing to dispel the dark of the night.
3. On
glancing at the address, he observed that it contained no name. The stranger hadn't gone far, so he followed him to ask it.
4. When at his house, they told me that he had left an hour ago.
5. No sooner had he taken a drink himself than Mrs Fettle looked in.
6. When I came to see my
friend, I found him lying in bed. He looked very pale as he had been seriously ill for a whole month.
7. He had hardly lit another cigarette when the general came into the courtyard.
8. Gemma went slowly down the stairs, Martini following in silence. She had grown to look ten years
older in these few days, and her hair had become gray.
9. Presently the sounds of voices and footsteps approaching along the terrace roused her from the dreamy state into
which she had fallen.
10. She was a woman of nearly fifty who had been obviously pretty once.
11. Moreover, to him, the doctor, the affair was the commonplace; it was just a hysterical woman who had quarrelled with her friend and took poison.
12. I left home at 8 o'clock, but I hadn't gone far when I remembered that I had forgotten to lock my door.
13. When Alison had disappeared, the first strains of the orchestra came stealing out to me
from inside the hall.
14. Scarcely had I closed the door when a gust of wind opened it again.