---Why were you late for school today?----It was ________ I help catch a thief on the bus.
In order to support the big family, he worked so hard that ________he made himself ill.
Failure is never a pleasure, but it can have a ________ effect on your life once you learn to use it.
The man refused to admit that he was guilty as the court had judged, and ________the High Court.
At the end of last year, New York’s stock market fell, ________a global financial crisis.
The mother used to ________her son’s pockets while he was asleep, looking for letters from his girlfriend.