She's very unhappy all alone with her problems. She's got nobody

to................... their ear.

Don't throw that basket away! It may still .................... in handy when we

go picking mushrooms.

No matter how I tried to convince him that I was right, he ................. his

ground dismissing all my arguments

The performance in the National Theatre really.................... the house

down last night. The actors were give a standing ovation.

Sadly, my tutor gave me a poor mark for my piece of writing. She told me

I had .................... too many liberties with the real facts.

What the secretary says doesn't necessarily .................... much weight,

but you should never disobey your director's instructions.

It....................to reason that the princess won't arrive unless you send her

a formal invitation.

It may take a long time before Mary .................. herself together after her

mother's death

According to the verdict, the boy will be removed from school on the

grounds of .................... dirty tricks on the teachers and other pupils.

She would have been fined for leaving her car in the wrong place, hadn't

the policeman decided to .................... the rules on that single occasion.

The new round of negotiations is hoped to....................the deadlock in

the Middle East.

Let me take care of your scratched knee. I've been a nurse for eighteen

years, so I .................... the ropes like nobody else.

The lyrics of the song struck a ................................... with Sue and she

became sad.

Doesn't Richard ever appreciate other people's merits? Does he only

blow his own .................................?

One of the boys blames his companion for the wrongdoing, but everyone

knows that it takes two to................................... .

The dishonest accountant will have to face the ................................ for

having embezzled so much of the company funds.

The Prime Minister must be the President's puppet. He seems to dance

to the President's ...................... and does not implement his own policy.