--- I’ll buy you a ten-speed bicycle as a birthday present. --- Is that a _________? I wish you would not disappoint me.
It was ________ the trouble to explain a job fully to new employees.
He argued _______ smoking, and insisted that it was ________ argument that smoking was harmful to health.
-----Poor Steve! I could hardly recognize him just now! ------_______________. He has changed so much.
The little girl who got lost decided to remain _________she was and wait for her mother.
Whenever I met her, _________ was fairly often, she greeted me with a sweet smile.