Практикум по лексикологии английского языка. Часть 1. Словообразование. Маковецкая Н.А - 42 стр.

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years (J.D.Salinger). 24. Its threadbare coat, refashioned from some old carpet
bag, stretched itself into a lazy arch that seemed to freeze forever in mid-frame
(J.Ballard).

Exercise 4. Instructions as above.

1. He terrorised the inhabitants of the town. 2. The woman poured coffee by eye-
measure. 3. "I don't fly into any sort of rage," he said bottling his anger and
speaking slowly and coldly. 4. She raised her deliberately pencilled eyebrows. 5.
She watched him nursing the flame between his hands. 6. It was a long hall,
papered and carpeted in dark green. 7. He looked down at her, indescribably
touched by her love, the generous unselfishness. 8. He always cursed his own
thin-skinnedness. 9. The Victoria hospital was unquestionably old. 10. Bramwell
was not inexperienced and because of this his ignorance was inexcusable. 11.
There is a well-loved cat next door to you. 12. If your boss asked you to work
overtime without extra pay, would you do it? 13. He is an outgoing and sociable
person. 14. She busied herself with the papers. 15. These goods are duty-free. 16.
Don't be a middle-roader. 17. We'll buy him a put-it-together toy set. 18. All her
life she has worn her sister's hand-me-downs. 19. People involved in a racket are
called racketeers. 20. Buying pre-packed food saves time. 21. Neither age nor an
enormous dinner clouded his wits (J.Tolkien). 22. A forkful of scallop is
immeasurably easier to lift than the glass of wine, and the Australian wife
(R.Tremain). 23. He would see … something in Joe’s eyes that brought him
thump-thumping across the room… (A.Fairbairn). 24. Then he saw Broderick
sitting up, dummy-wise, hands stiff and out-stretched, in the bed (H.Bates). 25.
And suddenly, as it drew to a standstill, he half-wished he had never come (Ibid.).
26. … most found this hard to believe, harder than any other reasons or unreason
that their fancy could suggest (J.Tolkien). 27. Behind the child-like feature, the soft
mouth and boneless nose a pair of adult eyes watched him wearily (J.Ballard). 28.
The hair on the top of my head felt like hay, and I began to sneeze, suddenly,
unstoppably (J.Updike). 29. I felt he’d made the trip in order to do a disservice to
my mother (J.Cheever). 30. “It’s nice of you to cheer me up, but it can’t be done. I
regard the entire personnel of the ensembles of our musical comedy theatre as – if
you will forgive me being Victorian for a moment – painted hussies.” - “They’ve
got to paint.” - “Well, they needn’t huss. And they needn’t ensnare my son.”
(P.Wodehouse).