I ____ to go for a walk, but someone called and I couldn’t get away．

The woman, who is said to have moved to America last year, ____ in China for almost twenty years．

---What a long queue!
--- Yeah．We ________________ up in the past few hours for tickets back home．

China has a growing number of middle-class parents who _____ for years to get their only child into a top school．

Sitting cross-legged in a manner in which the bottom of a foot ______ toward an Arab is a serious insult．

Polly observed that she ______ by a tall man in a dark coat when she ______ the faces around her on the train.

She was surprised to find the fridge empty; the child _____ everything!

---- Have you finished your composition already?---- Yes．I _____  it in less than ten minutes.

More than twenty years____________since he came to teach in this school, and every student and every parent_____him.

—I’m going to attend your lecture at 9∶30 tomorrow morning.
—I regret to tell you that. When you arrive, it will have ended and I ________ questions with my students.