Collocations

The meeting took almost five hours so it was impossible to ... attention all the time.

• give

• have

• pay

• keep

The problem is difficult to .......under control.

• hold

• do

• make

• keep

I don't think we should

.........a decision yet; we should wait.

• do

• make

• hold

• create

It took us all day to clean up the office after the burglary – the thieves .... a terrible mess.

• did

• made

• took

• had

Only 31% of the students who

.........the final exam passed it.

• had

• took

• made

• wrote

Could you ........me a favour and post these letters on your way home?

• make

• give

• do

• get

The company offers its employees free language training but not many people .........advantage of it.

• make

• keep

• do

• take

I've told him ten times that he's got the wrong telephone number. I'll (a)   crazy if they call again.

I think we should look for a new supplier – the one we have at the moment (a)   us too many problems.

Our personnel assistant is leaving next month - she's (a)  

a baby.