Infinitive as Predicate

1. I couldn't hope that the coming confrontation of interests would be resolved peacefully. But why not try to start things out as friendly as possible? I asked myself.

2. “You've been liberated from your house arrest and we have no plans this weekend," He grinned. "Why not celebrate your freedom?"

3. "Why not make it easy for him? What he's doing is hard enough."

4. For you of all people to turn to her after what she did to you last autumn! I would never have thought you would even talk to her again if I hadn't heard it myself.

5. Me – to help him! Heaven forbid! I would never lend him a helping hand even if my life depended on it.

6. Of all things to pick up the worthless! That's so much like her! Suffice it to say she has wasted a fortune on things like this. And she won't give up this ruinous habit of hers.

7. Why not throw a school-leaving party in the forest? That would be a fresh idea. To have conventional celebrations is so boring!

8. Why turn to Sam if you haven't even tried to do it yourself first? To ask that Sam should do the job for you is always easier than to take pains yourself, isn't it?

9. Why decide now? We don't require that you should give us a definite answer right now. We understand that this decision isn't easy to make.

10. Him – to marry her! Can you be telling the truth? What could have made him do that? I thought he was impossible to talk into a marriage.

Infinitive as Predicative

1. My goal was to run far enough away so that the horror behind me should be completely lost, so that it should become impossible to find, even if I changed my mind.

2. For the moment I couldn't help but be selfish. All I wanted was to stay with him as long as possible in the limited time given to me.

3. I couldn't think where to begin. No one else found the words, either. But to continue keeping silent was unbearable. Why not break the silence at last?

4. “I'm sorry,” he said, and then he hesitated as if he didn't know how to phrase what he was thinking.

5. I haven't told Charlie about the longer trip yet, I still wasn't sure how to break the news to him just right?

6. His lips were pursed, as if he was trying to decide how to phrase something. His expression was hard to understand.

7. If I'd gone to one of his other offices, would I have ever guessed what to ask for?

8. "So," I began, picking the least important question to start with.

9. It surprised me a little. I would have thought Jacob was nearly impossible to upset.

10. "You're right," he agreed. "Some people are hard to discourage."

11. His answer confused me. I thought the point of leaving was to let his family live in peace. Why leave if they were going? I stared at him, trying to understand what he meant.

12. What I want and need is to be with you, and I know I'll never be able to leave again and I have too many excuses to stay now.

13. They knew that none of their number was to blame.

14. It was the wrong place to search, struggling as I was to lie to myself, to convince myself that everything would work out as I needed it to.

15. I hope you won't mind taking a couple of precautions? To allow me to drive you to the boundary line is for one, and to take a cell phone so that I should know when to pick you up is for the other."

16. I got luckier than I deserved. Emmett is everything I would have asked for if I'd known myself well enough to know what to ask for.

17. Why not ask him how to do it? It won't be difficult for you to do it, will it? That's the least you can do to help me.

18. She is difficult to argue. Her point is to stand her ground till you finally give up even if her point is wrong. – For you of all people to say that about her! Isn't it rude to criticize people for your own drawbacks?

19. The problem with the project was to find means for its implementation. No one was too willing to cooperate. And in the end, Simon thought why not give it up.

20. To have agreed to such terms was a silly thing to do. I simply can't understand why not have asked them for some time to give it a thought before accepting all their conditions blindly.

21. Their strategy was not to learn what they were tasked to, but to make cribs and then cheat at exams. And though to be caught doing that meant to be strictly punished, it didn't discourage them from doing that again and again. They simply wouldn't study as to be clever was not in fashion. Why bother?