______ might be expected,the answer to the question was very mixed.
Two decades ago this city was ______ but a small unknown town.
—Why didn’t you go to Shelly’s birthday party yesterday evening? —I ______ but I had an unexpected visitor.
He didn’t attend the competition ______ he was ill at the time.
After the earthquake, the poor girl was found ______ under the ruins of a church.
—Do you still often go to the cinema? —Not as often as I ______.