Too much importance shouldn’t be ______ the speech of the chairman, for he has always been giving a boring report like that.
A rumor goes around _____the president will soon resign.
To make room for teachers’ correction, the students had better write their composition _____.
Cleaning women in big cities get __________ by the hour.
_________ the letter, tears kept coming to her eyes.
He is ________ a friend to me. He is in a way my English teacher.