| English | Russian |
| believed to have + past participle | считается, что (The five Avenger torpedo bombers are believed to have disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle. ART Vancouver) |
| had + subject 1 + past participle, subject 2 + would have + past participle | если бы (Had the referendum passed, grocers, convenience marts and drugstores would have charged shoppers 20 cents for each bag they were provided at checkout counters. ART Vancouver) |
| if past experience is any guide | как показывает практика (VLZ_58) |
| if past experience is anything to go by | как показывает практика (VLZ_58) |
| troubled past | нелады с законом (имелись у кого-л. в прошлом: A few days later, in an interview with CBC, Randy Arnott said, “It feels that we’re being looked at and accused, and we’ve been held up in our own house, not wanting to go out in public. People are looking at you, that your son’s the bad guy, which I don’t believe he is.”
Bad guy or not, Gavin has a troubled past. In early 2009, after a conflict with his mother (who’d separated from his father a decade earlier), he poured lighter fluid on himself and tried to set himself on fire. This led to a stay in a psychiatric ward.
What of the assault on Jodi that resulted in the restraining order? Gavin said that he called her a pig because she was eating too much of their dinner. “She threw a motorcycle helmet at me. I grabbed her and threw her out of the house, and she went to the police.”  vanmag.com ART Vancouver) |
