—Happy Birthday, Ken! Did you invite Jason?—Yes, but he _____ a meeting in New York otherwise he wouldn’t be absent from my birthday party.
How can you possibly miss the news? It _______ on TV all day long.
—Didn’t the guard see him breaking into the bank? —No, he _______ in the other direction.
“I suppose you _____ that report yet?” “I finished it yesterday, as a matter of fact.”
I tried to phone her, but even as I _____ she was leaving the building.
The students _______ busily when Miss Brown went to get a book she _______ in the office.