The Use of Articles with Nouns in Set Expressions

Exercise 23.Supply the required articles for nouns in the following sentences paying special attention to those used in some set phrases.

1. I trust you to tell me…bare truth, whatever it is. (Snow) 2. The maid, looking to right and left, spoke in…low and hur­ried voice. (Galsworthy)3. On his trip round…world with Fleur he had often put his nose out and watched the dancing on…deck. (Galsworthy) 4. He decided that he would not at…present explain to her who he was. (Bennett) 5. I saw…good deal of him during…war. (Snow) 6. He has taken his death very much to…heart indeed. (Collins) 7. What did her education and her accom­plishments amount to? She could keep…house. (Bennett) 8. All seemed perfectly at their ease, by no means in…hurry. (Dickens) 9. Somebody important must have been arriving from Europe by…air. (Greene) 10. Am I dealing, young people, with…case of…love at… first sight? (Galsworthy) 11. We've had some tea already on…board…yacht. (Shaw) 12. Rosa was well aware that she had never taken…trouble to get to know Annette. (Murdoch) 13. You will go to… sea and forget all about me in a month. (Galsworthy) 14. He was about to start on a long journey, a difficult one, by…sea, and no soul would know where he was gone. (Eliot) 15. It is… pleasure to see you. (Galsworthy) 16. He held…very guarded conversation with her on his way home; for fear that she would take…additional offence. Argument was out of…question. (Dreiser) 17. On the other hand, if he was beaten he took it with complete good humour. (Maug­ham) 18. He is beginning to lose…heart, they say. (Reade) 19. She burned like…fire from…head to…foot. (Hardy) 20. I got into conversation with him by…chance at…concert. (Shaw) 21. She's taken quite…fancy to you, Ridgeon. (Shaw) 22. …furniture was all sent round by…water. (Austen) 23. I returned at once, and found Ada sitting at…work by…fireside. (Dickens) 24. He played…flute. (Miller) 25. Somewhere…great many men were singing. (Greene) 26. He was chronically in…debt... (Snow) 27. …woman I fixed my eye on was…woman who kept…house for me at my cottage. (Collins). 28. It is…pity to worry her if she has …talent for…uneasiness. (Galsworthy) 29. He has given…permission to go up and see her there. (Priestley) 30. Behind…house was…large garden, and in summer, …pupils almost lived out of…doors. (Ch. Bronte) 31. …rain had stopped, and we went on…foot to…Ebury Street. (Snow) 32. They started at …dawn, and …boy I sent with them didn't come back till next day. (Maugham) 33. On being informed that her departure would be delayed she had flown into …violent passion. (Collins) 34. All of…sud­den, his face had become stony. (Snow) 35. Dear, dear! It seems only…other day since I took you down to school at Slough! (Galsworthy) 36. Mr. Byron Waller could play…violin. (Lee)