8. The doctor insisted she____in bed. But her smiling face suggested there____nothing serious.
There ____ quantities of apples in the basket and there was _____ milk in the bottle.
As is known to us all, failure usually _____ laziness while hard work can ______ success.
They stood _____ at each other as if they were enemies.
He risked _____ his job to see me off.
She finally got a high mark in writing. Never in all her life ____ so happy!