Ex. 54. Use the required passive forms.

1. The reception was all that (to expect). When we arrived we (to show) into some kind of hall where we (to detain) with the rest of the actors. Apparently we (not to allow) yet to mingle with the other crowd. As the guests assembled in the room, it was plain to me that they (to choose) carefully. Looking around, I recognised Anthony Blanche. He (to point) out to me often in the streets. I (to interrupt) in my observation by a woman reporter whom the manager had led up to me. I (to warn) against the dangers of being interviewed by strangers. As we (to introduce) I made up my mind to avoid it at any cost.

2. It was Saturday night and Pete sat watching TV. People (to kill) for an hour on the screen. Policemen (to shoot) in the line of duty, gangsters (to throw) off roofs, and an elderly lady slowly (to poison) for her pearls, and her murderer (to bring) to justice by a cigarette company after long discussions which (to hold) in the office of a private detective. Villains holding guns (to leap) at by brave, unarmed actors, and ingenues (to save) from deaths by the quick-thinking young men.

 

3. The Connolly children (to find) lurking under the seats of a carriage when the train (to empty). They (to drag) out and (to stand) on the platform. Since they could not (to leave) there, they (to include) in the party that (to send) by bus to the village. From that moment their destiny for ever (to involve) with that of the village. Nothing ever (to discover) about the children’s parents.

4. Bridgehampton, Friday. A disastrous fire broke out on the top floor of the Grand Hotel, Washington Road, in the small hours of the morning.

The alarm (to give) by the night porter. His attention (to draw) to smoke issuing from one of the top floor windows by a group of young people who were returning late from a dance. Within five minutes the town Fire Brigade was on the spot. The work of fighting the fire and evacuating the guests seriously (to hamper) by the non-operation of the lifts. It (to believe) that the fire (to cause) by a short circuit in the lift machinery and had extended to the whole floor before it (to detect). The flames (to bring) under control in fifty-two hours. Two of the guests staying at the hotel lost their lived. They (to trap) in their rooms and evidently (to overcome) by fumes before the rescuers could reach hem. A third guest (to take) to the hospital with multiple burns. His condition (to report) as being serious.