In order to learn the _______ of the family business, Bill took a job as messenger boy in one of the offices.
The man went into the room, _____ rather strange.
But she had to ___ the company and ____a man in order to get a job.
I _____ her voice at once on the phone, though we hadn’t seen each other for ten years.
We have been _____ by all our friends since we settled in the new house.
During the next ten years we both worked day and night to _____ the money we had borrowed.