Preparations are being made for the Olympic Games ______ in Brazil in 2016.
He is talking so much about America as if he _____ there.
She made the demand that the journalists _____ at once ______ Iraq.
The teacher demanded that the exam _____ before eleven.
If it were not for the fact that you _____ ill, I would ask you to do this right now.
--- “Where have you been?” --- “I got caught in traffic; otherwise _____ sooner.”