Mother _________father to give up smoking, but she failed.
The telephone _______, but by the time I got indoors, it stopped.
A cough is usually nothing to worry about unless it lasts for ten days.
We had an anxious couple of weeks _____ for the results of the experiment.
--- Can you show me Mr. Jaffer’s office, please? --- _____. But I don’t know if he is in at the moment.
The manager believes prices will not rise by more than _____ four percent.