1. I ________ simply wait until she comes back.

2. The president of the country was ________ because nobody liked his hostile politics.

3. It ________ a great shock to everyone because he hadn't said a word for 10 years.

4. I'd had scarcely any time to think about it before they ________ me for my opinion.

5. I told them I ________ just going out for a short walk.

6. ________ be buying the house or haven't you decided yet?

7. When he was only thirty years old, he ________ already experienced what most people only experience when they are much older.

8. No sooner ________ I shut the door, when the telephone rang.

9. Angela has been a Mafia informant for many years now. Knowing that the Mafia is fond of ________ its enemies, she demands and is paid exorbitant amounts of money to do this dirty job.

10. 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.