Don’t waste your words any more; she is as ______ as a mule (骡子) and no one can persuade her.
“How long have you been here?” “_______ the end of last month.”
_______ one old lady, the bus was empty.
They promise that the work would all be finished _______ next week.
_______ cooking, writing and running the farm, she was very busy.
The size of the audience,____ we had expected, was well over twenty thousand.