Заполните пропуски глаголами can, may, must, should, ought to, need, have to, to be to. 1. At this time Strickland … have been nearly forty-seven.

2. “Real friends … have everything in common,” Miller used to say.

3. Surely he … have stayed with her on her birthday!

4. She … never have married him1

5. You … not bother with these things here for you are among friends.

6. If anything … happen to me, my wife will be left very badly off.

7. That young American chap … have overheard something too.

8. Tell him I’d wait twenty years for him if I … to.

9. This … be the very last dinner he would ever eat at Ella’s.

10. He … go to business, why … other people stay in bed merely because it was dark and foggy?

11. I … have insisted on going by myself and who knows I … have got a job when I got to London.

12. You … not be afraid. I never cry.

13. Why … you and I talk about it?

14. He suggested that I … stay with him for a few days so that he … show me something of the surrounding country.

15. It … be a tiny path, or it … extend for miles.

16. I think I … find some girl, who’ll just look after me.

17. Well, my dear fellow, you … not eat as if you were going to eat it all.

18. Harris said there … have been twenty people following him in all.

19. It was of himself and of his own future, that he … think.

20. It’s not my secret. But I’ll see what I … do, because I think both you and John … be told.

21. I … say that you … have shown more consideration.

22. It’s absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one … read and what one … not.