__________ is often the case with her, my mother talked about my study for at least half an hour nonstop before she drove me to school yesterday.
After she put on her dress, she fastened a belt ______ around her waist.
After years’ preparations, the first Chinese music website ______.
The poor mother ______ and wept when she heard the news that her five-year-old son had been kidnapped.
. His colleagues ______ him though he himself didn’t think he had done anything special.
---Did you regret the fifty dollars on the cat? ---No, I would gladly have paid _____ for him.