1. In London in any underground station it is ________ the law to smoke.

2. It was a miracle that he was still alive as he hadn't eaten for weeks and when they found him he was just ________ and bone.

3. Her children were very ungrateful for all she'd done for them as she had really worked her ________ to the bone for them.

4. I hung the washing out only two hours ago but it is already bone ________ thanks to the hot sunshine.

5. After the first revolution the dictator no longer had much control and became just a paper ________ .

6. The cross country run where the runners follow a track of pieces of paper is called a paper ________ .

7. I won't go into the full details of the proposition, I'll just give you the ________ bones.

8. This kind of legislation is in existence to ________ the customer from worthless warranties.

9. You sometimes have to ________ very seriously whether to buy a second hand car which has no guarantee.

10. Her first novel was a huge success and it was only a few weeks after publication that the paper ________ came out.