When deeply absorbed in work, ______ he often was, he would forget all about eating and sleeping.
I _______the award, only if I _______ the poem more loudly.
I can hardly imagine Peter ______ across the Atlantic Ocean in five days.
In the traffic accident, his father came close to________ .
_______ in her skirt, the little girl tried to make herself _______ at the party.
The university wants its undergraduates to __ a regional language, if time permits.