---- Would you have gone shopping had it been possible? ---Yes, but I ___ busy doing my homework.
It was believed that things would get worse, but ____ it is they are getting better.
I ____ to go for a walk, but someone called and I couldn’t get away.
—The research on the new bird flu virus vaccine is challenging and demanding. Who do you think can do the job? —____ my students have a try?
He is only too ready to help others, seldom, ____, refusing them when they turn to him.
—Look, it ____ again. —Yeah. This is the third snow we ____ this spring.