It was a nice meal, _______ a little expensive.
How can you expect to get ahead in your life ______ you even live to yourself from time to time?
— We thought he would have got the job.— What a pity! He ______too nervous when interviewed.
With children, if you say "no", you have to mean ______.
— Would you mind giving me a lift home, Bill?— ______I'll wait for you at the gate after work.
It took people as well as time to build the pyramid.