1. For very small children at their nursery school there is often a ________ where they can play.

2. The sands of ________ are running out and you'll have to hurry up.

3. There was absolutely no call for him to criticise her so cruelly and in almost a ________ manner.

4. In order to get children to go to sleep, parents sometimes say that the sand ________ will soon come and put sand in their eyes.

5. Henry: No, I'm going to carry on as usual. Think of the advantage it would give my ________ if I were out of the campaign even for one day.

6. When you take a party of tourists round a famous city there are always those who ________ and keep everybody else waiting.

7. Andrew: What did the man sound like? Did you recognize his voice?Henry: No, I was half asleep.His voice wasn't familiar but he sounded quite pleasant. He didn't seem to be ________ me.

8. The strings on the puppet were all intertwined and it took us ages to ________ them.

9. There was absolutely no question about it he was the ________ idiot such as you'd find in one of those old farces.

10. Andrew: That makes the whole business even more sinister. Look here, Henry, one day won't make all that much difference. I'll tell people that you've ________ your voice or something.