1. She is thinking of blocking up the bedroom window because ________ have got into the house through it a couple of times so far.

2. This deserted ship was used by ________ many years ago. They stored here the goods they had taken illegally from one country to another.

3. Without her glasses she made a ________ and filled in the wrong form.

4. At lunch time he went to his sister's house to see his wife and daughters. They had spent the morning addressing envelopes for the leaflets he was sending out. His sister, Vera, thoroughly ________ of his involvement in politics.

5. Don't even think of shifting the blame on me, please! It's not my ________ for what happened.

6. Henry Orpington's first ________ that day was an open-air meeting on a large housing estate at ten o'clock.

7. The company decided to get ________ of me last week and so I had to leave.

8. I wouldn't call this a bad mistake, it is simply a ________ of the pen.

9. My job has gone because my boss has ________ me.

10. I have been made ________ because my work here is no longer needed.