Page 540 - Practical English Usage 3ed - Michael Swan, Oxford

The rebel leaderfound out that in spite ofthe precautions ofthe soldiers he had bought the guns from the police had planted an informer among them.
The report will look into claims the design ofthe courthouse the men escaped from was at fault.
Statements reassuring the public patients needing intensive care are getting it are total nonsense.
What they say is surprising isn't.
Pictures ofthe baby the judge ordered should not be identified by reporters
appeared in a Sunday newspaper.
Police hunting thieves wl10 dumped a ten-month-old baby in an alley after
finding him inside a car they stole have charged two teenage boys.
The head doorman at a nightclub where the ecstacy pill which killed P. L.
was sold has admitted he knew drugs were sold at the club..
But what bothered him more than what the files that were in the drawer
could mean was the feeling that something was certainly missing.
Police called to a house in Hampshire after neighbours reported cries for help
found 18-year-old M. F. stuck in a cat-flap after being locked out ofhis home.
Millennium Dome chiefs have refused to discuss reports they ignored advice attendance figures at the attractioll would be lower tlzan hoped. The Sunday Times says the Millennium Commission warned Dome owners the New Millennium Experience Company its own estimate was between 4.Sm and Sm. NMEC reportedly insisted there would be at least 7m visitors this year.
(The Millennium Dome was a tourist attraction built in London to celebrate the year 2000. It lost an enonnous amount of money.)
516 shade and shadow
Shade is protection from the sun.
I'm hot. Let's find some shade to sit in.
The temperature's 30 degrees in the shade.
A shadow is the 'picture' made by something that blocks out light.
In the evening your shadow is longer than YOIl are. There's an old story about a man without a shadow.
517 short answers: Yes, he can etc
Answers are often grammatically incomplete, because they do not need to repeat words that have just been said. A common 'short answer' pattern is subject + auxiliary verb, together with whatever other words are really necessary.
Can he swim?- Yes, he can. (More natural than Yes, he can swim.) Has it stopped raining?-No, it hasn't.
Are YOIl enjoying yourself?- I certainly am.
Don't forget to write. - I won't.
You didn't phone Debbie last night.-No, but I did this morning.
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