1. I couldn't get the food from the shop. When I got there it ------- .

2. The phone -------- continuously since the advert went in the newspaper.

3. Were you late for Robert's celebration dinner? Not really. They had started drinking, but the food ------- served yet.

4. John --------- novels for five years before he got his first award.

5. We had a hard time finding the restaurant. We --------- around for an hour when we found it.

6. I had to go to the hospital last week. I ---------- weak and tired for about a month. The doctor thinks it was just stress.

7. Gary called me last night. I --------- his number and it was busy. Then he called me. He said he'd been trying to reach me for days.

8. Laura -------- to Germany before she went last New Year, but she'd been taking German lessons in school so she was excited about travelling there.

9. Mary had a car accident last week. She -------- at the traffic lights, when a man in a car hit her from behind. His brakes had failed.

10. Charlie was feeling better than he ------- in days.

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