This is a complex operation. A team of nurses _____ the doctor in performing the operation.
Look at the trouble I am in! If only I __________ your advice.
The doctor did a lot to __________ the patient's fear __________ he would die of cancer.
They use computers to keep the traffic _________ smoothly.
The flowers _________ my mother, but my sister thought they were for her and took them.
She had just finished her homework_________her mother asked her topractice playing the piano yester-day.