The performance _______ three hours but none of us wanted to leave earlier.

When I arrived, Bryan took me to see the house___ I would be staying.

The number of people invited __________fifty, but a number of them__________ absent for different reasons.

When tension ________ in a relationship between two people, a frequent way of dealing with this is to send messages through a third person.

Sometimes parents’ control of young kids will be thought to be such an invisible rope, with which to tie them tightly, that they _____ tried to cut it