1. It's hard to get ________ him; he's got such a difficult character.

2. Do you have any idea what BASE jumping ________ ?

3. He's a good talker. He always puts ________ his ideas very well.

4. Perhaps I should explain the ________ reason for working in a restaurant as a waiter in preparation for a marketing job.

5. Apparently it is an ________ where the letters in the word are the first letters of a group of words.

6. The result of this was that we were held ________ for six hours in the departure lounge waiting for the end of the dispute.

7. By the time the plane took off as you can ________ we were all tired, hungry and miserable.

8. Look ________ ! That car's coming this way.

9. He intended to ________ across the channel with a parachute and land on the coast of France near Calais.

10. He started very early in the morning so that he was able to ________ commercial flights.