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Incomplete Sentences / Advanced level - Improving Verbal Skills
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Incomplete Sentences / Advanced level - Improving Verbal Skills
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1. I don't mind sleeping on an uncomfortable bed in a hostel as anything is ....... to sleeping in a tent.
2. It was quite obvious from the secretive manner in which he left the shop and the ....... looks he kept giving that he hadn't paid for the items of clothing.
3. The General made absolutely sure his troops were ready for battle and ....... with the latest equipment.
4. I've no wish to disregard or ....... your achievements but I think you could have done much more.
5. As soon as he had invested the money - he became uneasy and was beginning to sense ....... about his investment.
6. Some of Shakespeare's historical plays are rather long and so there are editions where they are ....... to make them shorter.
7. It's quite obvious that whatever you like to call his remarks they are impolite and ....... to slander.
8. Despite all the chaos around him the captain remained totally calm and assumed an air of ........
9. In some 19th century novels you see the very poor conditions people lived in that can only be described as....... misery.
10. The police stopped the car because it had followed an ....... course down the road and asked the driver why he was going from side to side.
11. The telephone connection was very poor and we only heard a ....... account of what the reporter was describing.
12. The judge has to adopt a ....... view of the crime by being utterly impartial.
13. Like all good philosophers in ....... of truth she is always looking for new perspectives.
14. He found himself at the edge of the cliff in a ....... position because one wrong step and he would fall into the sea.
15. The university decided to give their ....... an honorary degree because she had always been most generous in her financial help.
16. In this biography she is ....... as a kind sweet old lady but in reality she was a bad tempered old witch.
17. Not only did he pay for them to go on holiday but he ....... provided them with spending money.
18. Although he hadn't actually done anything - he looked as if he might and he was arrested for being outside the house with ....... to burgle it.
19. I have no wish to ....... these criminal activities but I do have some sympathy with the perpetrators.
20. Let's look at it this way -” it's not so much a problem ....... a challenge to our efforts.
21. The party leader advised all her members to ....... any question about finance and avoid the topic of money completely.
22. It was a remarkable performance because the actor seemed to convey the whole range of human emotions - what you might call the complete ....... from beginning to end.
23. Although all the athletes were full of life at the start of the marathon - towards the end of the race a few were showing signs of tiredness and were clearly ........
24. He had to be ....... from all the other patients in the hospital because he had a highly contagious disease.
25. She ....... to be very confident on stage but inside she was feeling very nervous.