—Jack Brown is very clever and he studies hard as well.—No ______ he always comes out first in the exam.
If their marketing plans succeed, they ____ their sales by 20 percent.
If the weather had been better, we could have had a picnic. But it ____ all day.
We first met on a train in 200We both felt immediately that we ______ each other for years.
So far this year we ______ a fall in house prices by between 5 and 10 percent.
The flowers were so lovely that they __________ in no time.