The government had hoped to draw as much attention as possible to this problem but it didn’t_______that way.
What surprised me was not what he said but ___ he said it.
It shames me to say it, but I told a lie when ___ at the meeting by my boss.
—I hear Johnson was badly injured in the accident. —_____. Let’s go and see him.
Scarcely___when it began to rain.
___all the words in the poem that suggest despair.