Answers. These are mostly not difficult and an intermediate student should have only two or three wrong.

1. I remember when you tried to climb that wall to escape from the neighbour when he saw you stealing apples in his orchard.

2. I am considering going away on holiday over Easter.

3. We are looking into buying a larger flat because we long to have more space.

4. The restaurant we intend to eat at is sure to be to your taste.

5. I find it hard to understand why you like reading those trashy novels.

6. He loves gardening because it gives him a feeling of doing something useful.

7. There is no point in me asking you to do the washing up.

8. As you refuse to work on Sundays there is no point in offering you overtime.

9. I don't want her coming ("to come" is possible, but is weaker as it refers to one occasion rather than makes a general rule) to dinner because I know she will say something to annoy me.

10. Peter is supposed to remind me to do the tax returns before Monday, otherwise the tax man will come knocking on our door.

11. Do you want me to shake the martini, or would you like me to stir it, Mr. Bond?

12. I have spent a few minutes watching those people across the road and I am beginning to think they are rather eccentric.

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