1. He always follows that old ________ : early to bed, early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

2. Children often go down to the seaside and use their buckets and spades to make sand ________ .

3. It's no good ________ your head in the sand, you'll have to face the truth in the end.

4. 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!

5. Before she knew what had happened a man suddenly fell on her ________ across and stealing her handbag.

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

7. 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.

8. He didn't really give speeches because he used to scream and shout and you could hear him ________ a hundred meters down the road.

9. Although it's a complicated subject the professor managed to make it all totally clear and ________ by her delivery.

10. He liked to play the ________ and would invariably dress up in the most outrageous clothes.