By the time you have finished this book, your meal ______ cold.

--Look! Somebody       the sofa.
--Well, it wasn’t me. I didn’t do it.

I had been working on math for the whole afternoon and the numbers        before my eyes.

"Life is like walking in the snow", Granny used to say, "because every step      ”

The manager was concerned to hear that two of his trusted workers ______.

After Jack had sent some e-mails, he _______ working on his project.

George returned after the war, only _______ that his wife had left him.

—What have you been busy with these days?
—I ______ that the speech contest has been brought forward, so I ______ for it.

---Now, have you finished your work yet?
--- Yes, I _______ it when you came.

They are living with their parents for the moment because their own house ____.