Nobody believed his reason for being absent form the class _____he had to meet his uncle at the airport.
Only after the woman had her own child ________ how difficult it was to be a mother.
Mary, together with his classmates, _____ going to watch the game.
They went off and left me ______ there all by myself.
The picture is ______ at least twenty pounds.
As we all know, smoking too much can _____ cancer and many other illnesses.