1. Since Alice retired, she has been deprived of some favorite diversions business meetings, business trips and cocktail parties. The humdrum routine of her present life is literally ________ her.

2. The fire spread all over the antique bookshop and ________ all the valuable books and manuscripts in it.

3. We asked him why he ________ telephoned earlier.

4. I ________ simply wait until she comes back.

5. I was asking myself what in all honesty she ________ do next.

6. He realized he ________ left it in the car before he reported it lost.

7. He was wondering what ________ prompted him to take no notice at all.

8. The plague in the nineteenth century was a terrible disease that ________ millions of people.

9. I'm sure they ________ get married and live happily ever afterwards.

10. Because of a lack of evidence, the judge dismissed the case against the man accused of ________ the senator.