Список вопросов базы знаний

Are you sure you would like ..... the truth? Better let the sleeping dogs lie, as the proverb goes.

William ..... that Ann had made a lot of big mistakes at work and that she was afraid of losing her job.

I meant ..... what their plans were, but I was not lucky.

How did you ..... that Felix had failed his Math exam?

I ...... that Pam was able to buy an expensive stereo system by saving her money for two years.

I had been looking for my bag for quite some time, and at last I ..... that my dog had taken it into the garden.

Alec was nosing around trying ..... what Sue and Sara were up to.

Ted thought that his mistake would never be ..... .

Will you let me know as soon as you ..... about their arrival?

Better a little fire that warms than a ..... fire that burns. (proverb)

He is too ..... for his boots.

A ..... mark is soonest hit. (proverb)

He that has a ..... nose thinks everybody is speaking of it. (proverb)

A ..... ship asks deep waters. (proverb)

Add little to little and there will be a ..... heap. (proverb)

It is not enough to have ..... qualities; one must make good use of them.

..... winds blow upon high hills. (proverb)

Felicity inherited a ..... fortune.

This man used to be a ..... shot in the shipbuilding industry.

The giant had a ..... castle in the middle of a dark forest.

The swallow sat on the mast of a ..... vessel and watched the sailors hauling huge chests out of the hold with ropes.

I believe Hubert has a very ..... income.

Troy reached for a folder which was marked in ..... black letters.

This new powerful computer is the ..... thing since sliced bread.

..... barkers are no biters. (proverb)

Big talkers are ..... liars. (proverb)

..... cry and little wool. (proverb)

Little thieves are hanged, but ..... ones escape. (proverb)

Little pigeons can carry ..... messages. (proverb)

Jeremy was very tall and ..... of limb.

Time is the ..... healer. (proverb)

Stanley was a ..... dog that lived next door.

Steve and I are ..... friends.

..... men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.

There had been a wind all day, and it was rising then with an extraordinary ..... sound.

The exhibition was a ..... fiasco.

The creature had two ..... protruding eyes projected from sockets in chameleon fashion.

The ..... attraction was the pamphlet called the Thunderer.

Lorna was a ..... stout woman tired from the burden of her flesh.

The performance was a ..... success.

A ..... deal of people were present at the meeting.

In front of a big bookcase in a big chair, behind a big volume sat Mr. Emerson, looking a full size ..... than any of them, big as they were.

Leonard really had a ..... business; he made diamonds.

There was a ..... lovely lawn with soft green grass in front of the house.

Anna felt very cold and strange, with ..... pain in her head.

The ..... Patriotic War lasted almost four years.

Your essay shows ..... ignorance of grammar.

The house was much ..... than I had expected.

As ..... as life. (proverb)

Empty vessels make the ..... sound. (proverb)