The harder you work at your lessons, the greater progress you ________.
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.
The weather in the south is generally warm, but it _____ be very cold sometimes.
The village seemed deserted, the only sign of life _____ an ugly-looking goat tied to a tree in a field nearby.