—What were you up to when she dropped in?—I _________ for a while and __________ some reading.

Could you predict how many audience your speech ____ to the reasons for the need to raise interest rates?

I soon found that the work I was doing ____ by someone else — in other words, I was wasting my time.

We’d better take umbrellas—I’m sure it _____ when we arrive in London; it’s always wet there at this time of year.  

The little boy is dirty from head to foot because he______in the mud all morning.