1. This brings me to another point: why aren't you and Sara tying the ________ ?

2. There is nothing worse when you take important clients out for lunch to find that the choice of dishes is very ________ .

3. I've lived here all my life and know every single road and street like the back of my ________ .

4. He said he'd read my funny story and had laughed twice, which was a sort of back ________ compliment.

5. Personally I find that although the taste of your lunch is important, it should also look ________ on the plate.

6. I can ________ you that the duties are not in any way complicated.

7. We all have our ________ to bear so I should be grateful if you would stop complaining all the time.

8. And now I come to a very important ________ I want to ask of you.

9. Dear Charles I thought it was ________ time I wrote to you and told you what I've been up to.

10. She's the sort of person who can't bear being secretive and will never talk about you ________ your back.