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

2. Man's voice: Oh, good morning. I want to warn you about a bomb...Henry: A bomb? Where? Hello! We've been ________ off. Operator! Operator! Operator!

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

4. The sands are ________ and everything is changing in this century.

5. 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.

6. There are really too many political parties in this election as there are so many small groups or ________ .

7. It runs into millions and millions almost as many as the ________ of sand you can see on this beach.

8. I apologized for what seemed like a deliberate act of rudeness but I explained that it had been purely accidental and an ________ action on my part.

9. If you ________ your enterprise on sand, it's certain to fail eventually.

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