---Tom called me up telling me he would not take part in the match. --- _______is a pity _______ he could not join us.
She ________ someone, so I nodded to her and went away.
I think _______ is no need for us to comment on his action: it speaks for itself.
----- It’s too strange that these people should laugh when their relatives die. ----- That is the local custom ______ the seventeenth century.
I lent him ten magazines, ____ are more wonderful than you can imagine.
It is silly of me _____ all eggs in one basket. That is the worst mistake I have made.