George returned after the war, only __________ that his wife had left him.
I promised to write to her ________I got to New York.
The number of people invited___fifty, but a number of them ____absent for different reasons.
The parcel_ __a lot of things ,_____a secondhand dictionary.
—Where have you been?—I was stuck in the heavy traffic. Otherwise I ____here earlier.
This hotel________$ 140 for a single room with bath.