---Where has Mary been? I haven't seen her all day?---Oh,in order not to be disturbed, she spent the whole day __in the study, ___ her report.
The shoemaker can mend whatever ______.
Operations which left patients ______ and in need of long periods of discovery time now leave them feeling relaxed and comfortable.
America will never again have as a nation the spirit of adventure as it ______ before the West was settled.
I was awfully tired when I got home from work, but a half-hour nap ______ me.
Hardly a month goes by without ______ of another survey revealing new depths of scientific illiteracy among US citizens.