Tod was working at his gas station ________ he heard over the radio that a bank in Long Island had been broken into by an armed man who killed the night guard and got away with $150,000.

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It’s worth much ________ is worth ________.

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As I will be away for at least a year, I’d appreciate ________ from you now and then _________ me how everyone is getting along.

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Leave the cellphone as it is. It belongs to _________.

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_________, the sports meeting will be held next week.

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Can you _________ this telegram which my son sent me yesterday?

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With a lot of difficult problems __________, the newly-elected headmaster is having a hard time.

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Once he has _________ something, no one can persuade him not to.

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--I must apologize for ________ ahead of time.

--That’s all right.

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I can hardly imagine Peter ________ across the Atlantic Ocean in five days.

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