1. Headlines appeared maintaining that Mathew was a dishonest ________ thief.

2. Inquiries are held which seem to go on forever and you only wish that the procedure could be ________ .

3. Our poor potential buyer reads the papers, watches the television news and gets excited at the prospect of another meeting of the financiers but in the end nothing of ________ comes of it all.

4. You sit in the passenger seat and ________ your learner to do what you would normally do.

5. The only ________ to me is as they were successful on the first attempt, how come some years before it had taken me four tries!

6. There was even talk that incidents like this one could ________ the Government.

7. I am proud to say that I taught my wife and my two sons and they all ________ first time.

8. Of course we all get ________ with endless leaflets through the door telling us of bargains at the local supermarket.

9. This is all very disappointing for the ________ house buyer who doesn't really know what's going to happen next and how much the interest rate will be.

10. Building Societies currently find themselves in a ________ situation because they try to please the savers and also the borrowers and yet one group is always going to lose.