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1. You should open the wine about three hours before you use it.
2. Previous climbers had cut steps in the ice.
3. Somebody had cleaned my shoes and brushed my suit.
4. The doctor should have signed the prescription
5. You must not hammer nails into the walls without permission.
6. In some districts, farmers use pigs to find truffles.
7. Someone switched on a light and opened the door.
8. Somebody had slashed the picture with a knife.
9. They are pulling down the old theatre.
10. Why didn't they mend the roof before it fell in?
11. The librarian said that they were starting a new system because people were not returning
books.
12. The police asked each of us about his movements on the night of the crime.
13. Someone will serve refreshments.
14. People must not leave bicycles in the hall.
15. Someone has already told him to report for duty at six.
16. They rang the church bells as a flood warning.
17. No one can do anything unless someone gives us more information.
18. People are spending far more money on food now than they spent ten years ago.
19. The organizers will exhibit the paintings till the end of the month.
20. They will say nothing more about the matter if someone returns the stolen gun.
21. People saw him steal your car
22. They began to plant rubber trees in big plantations
23. The judge gave him two weeks in which to pay the fine.
24. They make these artificial flowers of silk.
25. People know that he is armed.
26. We know that you were in town on the night of the crime.
27. They shouldn't have told him.
28. People believe that he was killed by terrorists.
29. We know that the expedition reached the South Pole in May.
30. Before they invented printing people had to write everything by hand.
31. They paid me a lot of money to do this job
32. We’ll continue to use this computer
33. I have heard her sing this song several times
34. They shouldn’t make the children work hard
35. They’re servicing my car tomorrow. (I ……
36. Smith Ltd are supplying our company with furniture. (We….
37. He is coming to fix our television this evening. (We….
38. By the way, someone is coming to repair the washing machine tomorrow. (I ……..
39. The school got someone to build a new gym last year.
40. We're getting someone to redecorate the house next month.

Turn into Active


1. The runways are being lengthened at all the main airports.
2. This notice has been altered.
3. Someone will have to be found to take her place.
4. This rumour must have been started by our opponents.
5. This scientific theory has now been proved to be false.
6. Your money could be put to good use instead of being left idle in the bank.
7. This copy hasn't been read. The pages haven't been cut.
8. The stones were thrown by a student
9. The damaged ship was being towed into harbour when the towline broke.
10. Last year, a profit of two million pounds was made in the first six months

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