Choose the word or phrase that best completes the sentence.

1. What do you mean, he's watching television? He's ________ to be washing the car.

2. If you had gone there last year, you ________ my brother.

3. Just keep ________ on the baby while I cook the supper, will you?

4. The guide walked so ________ that most of the party could not keep up with him.

5. That fellow has a dishonest ________ in his character.

6. The competitors in the car rally had to follow the ________ laid down by the organisers.

7. It's an awful ________ your wife couldn't come. I was looking forward to meeting her.

8. Several of the explorers did not survive the terrible ________ across the desert.

9. I absolutely ________ with everything that has been said.

10. I can't find my handbag anywhere; it has simply ________.

11. It's difficult to see through the windscreen - I can't even make ________ where the road is.

12. The boy looks like his father and the girl takes ________ her mother.

13. I have lived near the railway for so long now that I've grown ________ to the noise of the trains.

14. I appealed ________ him for help.

15. When she was crossing the room the night-nurse happened to notice the old lady ________ to get out of bed.

16. The management received a lot of ________ about the poor service in their hotel.

17. The pictures is ________; the thief will be most disappointed when he tries to sell it!

18. They got the bill three weeks ago, but they ________ haven't paid it.

19. The witness told the court that he ________ the accused before.

20. I don't know where he lives now; he left this area many years ________.