---Are you ready to leave? ---Almost, I’ll be ready to go just as soon as I putting the clean dishes away.
_______at the meeting made us surprised.
When we arrived there, the fire_______.
He is sometimes hard _______ us, but it hasn't made us like him any less.
I'11 never forget the days_______ I would sit in front of the house, listening to him telling stories.
But nobody believed that the reason_______ I was late was _______my bicycle broke down on the way to school.