The telephone _____ three times in the last hour, and each time it _____ for my sister.
He didn't _____ what I read because his mind was on something else.
Scientists have to work hard to keep _____ with modern discoveries and developments.
She _____ the temptation to buy a coat she could not afford.
He put in a special _____ for an extra day's holiday so that he could attend his daughter's wedding.
It was decided to _____ the search when there was no hope of finding the missing girl alive.