1. I fully understand your comments and bearing those in ________ I have made the appropriate decision.

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

3. He's one of those irritating people who manages within a few minutes of meeting someone to ________ their back up.

4. It is customary for the office junior to make a ________ of what each colleague wants from the sandwich bar.

5. In fact you could not possibly say that the job of best man is at all ________ .

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

7. He's having trouble with his mother-in-law because she likes to control everything rather like a backseat ________ .

8. We were in a small rowing boat and were terrified that the steamer hadn't seen us as it was bearing ________ on us.

9. Where we live is a sort of back________ because nobody here knows what's going on in the world.

10. Poor woman since she got knocked down by a car, she's been ________ on her back.