Answers:

01. The lookout saw that the Titanic was bearing down on the iceberg. Collision threatened.

02. Who can be indifferent to the glory that was Rome?

03. As far as his opponents are concerned, a dictator is likely to take the law into his own hands.

04. The shortage took us by surprise and we had no time to arrange alternative supplies.

05. The government can find no painless way to hold inflation in check.

06. While the sales director was on holiday, the sales office got into a real mess.

07. I had to resign. I couldn't get on with the boss.

08. The injured man was done for. He was going to die.

09. In the warm spring sunshine, the plants came on quickly. (= grew, developed).

10. The publisher threw a big party when the author's new book came out.

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