— Why weren't you at the meeting? — I ________ for a long distance call from my sister in America.
You should take an umbrella with you ____ it might rain on the way.
After he graduated in______ law from Oxford with honors ,he worked as__lawyer.
He went to bed _______, when he woke up he found he still had his shoes on.
It was a matter of _____ would take the position.
The train was ten minutes late , so I _______ have run all the way from my house to the station.