____ a peasant boy of no more than seventeen, who was badly wounded.
______ the kids have left home , we’ve got a lot of extra space.
The news _____ the spaceship succeeded in returning to the earth spread everywhere.
Kate asked the girl to ________ so that she could hear what her husband said on the phone.
The population of our village was ____ that of theirs.
— Do you mind my taking the books away? — ________.