6. To crown our misfortunes, it soon began to snow.
7. How short the holidays have been this summer!
8. The whole house was being repaired from top to bottom.
9. Here he comes; you must mind your p’s and q’s.
10. Neither the masters nor the pupils felt in the mood for working.
11. After two whole months’ rest, the college found it difficult to resume its ordinary routine.
12. For my own part illness had made me unable to bear anything.
13. We no longer had any ammunition to fight the rioters with.
14. Sometimes, as a last resource, I called my neighbour to my aid.
15. They were all so quiet that you could have heard a pin drop.