It was _____ by the railway board that the cost of rail fares would be increased by ten percent.
Smoking is not _____ in the meeting hall.
--- At last day _____ and it began to get light. --- It's time for you to leave.
Her husband felt it would be silly to __ the colour of the curtains before they had painted the room.
He spoke so quickly that I didn't _____ what he said.
Every time he tried to start the car, the wheels _____ deeper into the mud.