Mr Smith, _____ of the _____ speech, started to read a novel.
He__________ he would be able to leave tomorrow, but it's beginning to take difficult.
—I put him down for a well-educated man. —___________ ? —I mean that he's a well-educated man.
Don't be joking. It's time to____________ your business.
It may not rain, but you had better take an umbrella__________.
I'd like to be a professional singer, but I don't think I've got__________.