He put in a special _____ for an extra day's holiday so that he could attend his daughter's wedding.
Many people have been ill from a strange disease these days, _____ we’ve never heard of before.
There was such a long queue for fried chicken at KFC that we_____ gave up.
_________, I guess, and you can make it.
—Did you watch the movie Mei Lanfang in the People’s Theatre last night?— I had planned to, but it ________ hard all the time.
All the efforts finally ______ in 2009, when the band’s first album won lots of awards.