Although the old man was ______ death, he still fought with the disease bravely.
He told us he _______a concert________.
—I’d love to make friends with the boy ____ you think is easy to _____.—OK. I’ll introduce you to him at the party.
I soon found that the work I was doing ____ by someone else — in other words, I was wasting my time.
Jim won the award, _______ excited everybody in the class.
The reason ______ he gave for being late was ______ he overslept this morning.