By the time he retires, professor Baker _____ for almost forty years.
She is more beautiful _________ than in the pictures.
_______ to me, John would not have failed.
One can be easily _____ smoking in a smoking family.
The cigarette end thrown away by a careless woodcutter _______ the big forest fire.
--I am sorry to keep you waiting. I’ll make short work of this. --________ I am not in hurry.