________ cleaning the yard and making up the beds for the old, we also read newspapers for them and had chats with them.

In those days John with his classmates _____ kept busy preparing for the exam.

Lisa doesn’t know ______ she and her friends can do to help the little boy ______ parents have left their hometown for making money.

I can’t get through to the general manager’s office anyhow. —- The line is busy. Someone ___________ the telephone.

The hat borrowed from the dramacompany was so dirty that it required ________ thoroughly.