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7. Why didn’t you try the dress on in the store? You’ll have to take it
back now. (would)
Task: suggest meanings for the verbs in italics. The first is done for you.
1. Don’t accept their offer. You should stick out for more. ( insist
on receiving)
2. Jimmy has already grown out of his shoes!
3. I must dash to the supermarket. We’ve nearly run out of coffee.
4. What do I have to do to brush up on my English?
5. We’ll go ahead as soon as the bank comes across with the money.
6. Take a short holiday, I’ll be happy to stand in for you.
7. Tony believes his teacher really has it in for him.
8. We are going to Amsterdam soon and I want to read up on it.
9. What have the children been getting up to in our absence?
10. Don’t worry! No matter what they say I’ll stick up for you.
11. She has been fiddling her expenses and has been getting away with it.
12. Cash in on the high price of gold and sell your jewellery.
13. He doesn’t mean what he says. Don’t start in on him!
14. Monica’s positively bursting out of her clothes.
15. I’ve been away. Can you fill me in on the latest news?
16. It’s going to be a difficult day, but we just have to go through with it.
17. Just tell me what happened. Don’t hold out on me.
The text in front of you has been split into parts and shuffled. Putting the parts
together in the right order will enable you to learn some interesting information
about the work of restorers and conservators.
BREAKING THE PORTLAND VASE
a) Now the 1940s adhesive has become brittle and yellow and Mr. Williams
explained yesterday how he will take the vase apart and achieve a near
perfect restoration that will last 200 years – including scores of tiny
fragments left out by Doubleday.
b) Mr. Nigel Williams, the British Museum’s chief conservator of ceramics, is
about to break a Roman glass vase, worth several million pounds, into more
than 200 pieces and then put it together again.
c) Although Mr. Williams supervises a team of 12 conservators the vase
restoration will be his alone. He expects it to take 40 per cent of his time for
the rest of the year. “It is the most difficult restoration I have attempted in 28
years,” he said.
d) Mr. Williams will begin by encasing the vase in a paper mould and placing it
in an atmosphere of solvent, which will release the joints. With the vase still
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