Choose the word or phrase that best completes the sentence.

1. Food prices have been ________ steadily for at least twenty years.

2. When the police appealed for witnesses, several people came ________.

3. My father always falls ________ in front of the television.

4. This year the roses were ________ a month earlier than usual.

5. I don't know why he complains about his low salary all the time. He doesn't earn as ________ as I do.

6. From now on everything will be ________ sailing, I hope. No more problems.

7. There are ________ when I have to work very hard.

8. Our magazine ________ in May if we receive all the articles on time.

9. I though you said that you were ________ to be in Spain this weekend.

10. Could you ________ me five pounds? I'll pay you back next Monday.

11. He was not very pleased about ________ called an incompetent idiot.

12. I wish you wouldn't ________ your clothes all over the floor.

13. The boy fell into the river and was ________ along by the fast current.

14. ________ from anything else, she is always late for work.

15. The new manager explained to the staff that she hoped to ________ new procedures to save time and money.

16. I am sure he would have liked your sister if he ________ her.

17. This passport is valid ________ all countries except China.

18. The child hurt himself badly when he fell ________ the bedroom window.

19. I don't ________ to get married because I like being a bachelor.

20. ________ at the party!