__________ get to the company on time, we set out early in the morning.
____ by high mountains, the city is infamous for air pollution.
There were so many people on the platform waiting to ____ the train that we gave it up.
The little girl has ____ gift for ____ music. She has won some major prizes for it.
The war ____ because neither side would give in to the other.
He found it impossible to please his boss; ____, he quit the well-paid job.