Exercise 2. Point out the gerunds or the gerundial constructions. Translate into Russian.
1. As the killer walked, he imagined his ancestors smiling down on him. 2. She had imagined her father calling CERN’s top scientists to his lab, showing them his discovery, watching their awestruck faces. 3. It was a horrifying, fifty-foot-tall depiction of Jesus Christ separating humankind into righteous and sinners, casting the sinners into hell. 4. Langton imagined the killer escorting his last victim across the piazza on foot, like he had at St Peter’s, giving Langton an open shot. 5. I don’t like you being angry with me. I couldn’t bear the thought of us not being friends. 6. Her distress tore him apart, and he couldn’t stand the sight of her being unhappy. 7. She thought of him going home, going back to Scotland, to nothing. No parents. No family. No love day! 8. but I can see no motive for her doing so. Can you? 9. She still resented Alec’s overseas commitments, his constantly leaving her for glamorous foreign parts. 10. She said, “I never even thought about you and Mummy divorcing.” 11. “He is away. He didn’t say anything about you coming.” 12. “And you’re not upset about me not coming back to London with you after all?” 13. “I don’t like to think of her being abandoned , left on her own.” 14. Not so much worried, I think, as frustrated. Grinding his teeth at the very thought of the might of the British Empire being challenged. Roused, he can become a real old bulldog. 15. Without Jess tagging along, demanding attention, being with Judith had been like spending time with a girl-friend, a contemporary, and all the small treats and extravagances – lunching at the Mitre, and buying the extremely expensive attaché case, which was the one that Judith really wanted, – were a small price to pay for the knowledge that, somehow, she had crossed a difficult bridge in the relationship with her elder daughter. 16. It’s a lovely idea, provided Jeremy’s parents won’t mind him spending the entire day here… . 17. It’s no good being sarcastic. 18. I see no object in withholding the information. 19. I felt a distinct pleasure in passing on my own discomfiture. 20. He terrified Flora into saying she took that money from poor Roger’s room.
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