_______ almost all our time to our schoolwork in the past three months, we have almost no time for fun and play.
He is famous both ______ a novelist and a poet but he is more famous ______ his novels.
I won’t call you, ________ something unexpected happens.
The speaker is giving rather an _______ speech, as I can judge from the _______ look of all the listeners.
We ______ that you would be able to visit us, but you did not.
--- Nancy is not coming tonight. --- But she _______!