Many a man _____ come to help us.
The celebration started at ten in the morning and____ about two hours.
. — Lend me some money, will you? — Sorry, I’ve got ____ at hand myself.
. I asked Peter and ____ of his two sisters, but none of them knew when their uncle came back.
. — You could have turned to the soldiers for help. — Yes, but we ____ to manage it on our own. Who would think we would fail?
. I first met Mr Zhao nine years ago. He ____ at a chemical college at that time.