В английском языке есть много сочетаний глаголов с прилагательными, которым в русском языке соответствуют глаголы. Н а п р и м е р : to be late — опаздывать to be angry — сердиться to be ill — болеть to be glad — радоваться She is late again...

On the ground glass of the door of room No. 962 were the words: "Robbins & Hartley, Brokers." The clerks had gone. It was past five, and with the solid tramp of a drove of prize Percherons, scrub-women were invading the cloud-capped twenty-story office building. A puff of red-hot air flavoured with lemon peelings, soft-coal smoke and train oil came in through the half-open windows. Robbins, fifty, something of an overweight beau, and addicted to first nights and hotel palm-rooms, pretended to be envious of his partner's commuter's joys...