Arakin 4 kurs new 001 176. indd

SPEECH PATTERNS
1. Older and wiser and better people had told him that 
there could 
not possibly be
a frog in his bread-and-milk.
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How can I possibly do it?
Do it if you possibly can.
The child couldn’t possibly have done it alone.
2. She was 
a woman of few ideas
, with immense power of con-
centration.
She was a woman of few words.
She has always been a woman of fashion.
He is a man of property.
3. a) ... there was a piece of tapestry 
that was
evidently 
meant to 
be
a fire-screen.
The door is meant to be used in case of emergency.
He was meant to be an artist.
b) 
They were meant
for each other.
Are these flowers meant for me?
What I said wasn’t meant for your ears.
4. That part of the picture was 
simple if interesting
.
That part of the play was entertaining if long.
The concert was enjoyable if loud.
The dress was unattractive if new.

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5. ...but here there were wonderful things 
for the eyes to feast on.
Children don’t have enough protein for their bodies to develop
properly.
This is not the right time for the man to do this job.
This train doesn’t leave early enough for us to reach London 
before 5.
PHRASES AND COLLOCATIONS
1. to be in disgrace
9. to cope with
2. to describe with much detail
10. (for) the greater part of the 
(in great detail)
day (the time; the year; 
3. as a matter of fact 
one’s time)
(
more literary
)
4. to picture to oneself (
literary
)
11. to feel entitled
5. to come up to one’s expectation
12. to look, come, come up to one’s 
(
BE
), to meet one’s expectations 
expectation
(
AE
) 
13. to be inclined to do smth
6. in the first (second, last) place 
14. to be in a tight corner (spot)
7. to open on to (smth) (of a win- 
15. to claim one’s attention
dow, door)
16. in comparison with
8. to be one pace (mile) away
17. to be in search of smb or smth
from smb or smth
18. in one’s haste of (doing) smth