Choose the word or phrase that best completes the sentence.

1. I'm afraid I can't come to dinner on Wednesday. Could we put it ________ until next week?

2. Didn't it ever ________ to them that they would be punished?

3. The President made a wonderful ________.

4. It always ________ me as odd that he should go off to work so late in the day.

5. I could ________ a note of panic in his voice.

6. "Keep ________ the good work," the teacher told the students, "and you'll all pass the exam".

7. Would you mind if I ________ the window?

8. As soon as the firebell rang everyone walked quickly downstairs and out of the building, ________ gathered in the car park.

9. Would you mind ________ these plates a wipe before putting them in the cupboard?

10. After his long absence from school he found it difficult to ________ up with the rest of his class.

11. ________ he had no money for a bus, he had to walk all the way home.

12. We must economize ________ fuel.

13. I ________ milk chocolate to plain chocolate.

14. As there was no transport of any kind, he had to make the journey ________ foot.

15. He thinks he is really important but he is only really a big ________ in a small pond.

16. I didn't realize everyone was going to wear formal clothes and I felt ________ in my jeans and jumper.

17. He said that the plane had already left and that I ________ arrived an hour earlier.

18. We very much ________ that you will come to dinner next Friday.

19. I am not a serious investor, but I like to ________ in the stock market.

20. Teresa's father began to lose his ________ when he was in his sixties.