The sentence doesn’t make any , no matter how you read it.
Reports say the plane crashed 15 minutes after it took off, killing all 157 passengers _____
Tom and I had each a bedroom, and a third room ____ as our study.
Not only ____ everything he ____ taken away but also his German citizenship.
The medicine ___ as soon as you take it. But it ____ the blood.
—When are the traffic police strong? _---When they ___ up cars with one hand.