[After emotional verbs]
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1. I am sorry[4] that you have not come. 2. He was sorry that we had not come yesterday afternoon. 3. We are sorry that it should be necessary to tear down this wall. 4. I am glad[5] that it is not necessary to build a tower. 5. We were glad that it was not necessary to demolish the foundations. 6. They are sorry that the contract does not suit you. 7. I was sorry that it did not suit them to do this work. 8. I am glad that the contract has suited you. 9. He is sorry the contract does not suit you.
Footnote 4:[ (return) ] To be sorry, pesarle a uno; I am sorry, me pesa.
Footnote 5:[ (return) ] To be glad, gustarle a uno.
XXVI. COMPOSITION
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Two days passed. He found six bits of cedar and obtained a fire. He killed some reindeer and preserved the torn flesh in the ice. It was preserved thus all the year. Having no axe he transported to his grotto the splinters of the trees torn to pieces by the frost. Every morning he began again[6] the struggle with the cold and the solitude, because he desired to live and to return some day to his hearth. He adored life.
Footnote 6:[ (return) ] Use volver a (with infinitive).
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