--- Hurry up! Alice and Sue are waiting for you at the school gate. --- Oh! I thought they ______ without me.
I really appreciate _______ to help me out.
She looks forward every spring to _____the flower-lined garden.
_____ all his followers dead, the captain was taken by his enemy.
_____to his research work, the professor cared little about any other things.
The food she has prepared for the party is not enough, for there are _____people than she expected.