__________my efforts at persuasion,he wouldn’t agree.
It’s surprise that the faraway village has been ______into a famous tourist city in only ten years.
There was such a long queue for coffee at the interval that we _____gave up.
I didn’t see your sister at the meeting. If she _____, she would have met my brother.
He is more handsome _____than in his photographs.
Employees who have worked here for many years will be given _____over newcomers.