We were all agreed that the cottage would      a perfect holiday home for the family.

I’ve        the habit of calling in on my grandparents on my way home from school.

If she doesn't want to go, nothing you can say will         her.

Mary is really good at taking notes in class. She can       almost every word her teacher says.

  Alice, bent ______ losing weight, increased the time of exercise to three hours______ a time.

When my parents were young, they had to ______ several miles every day to school since they had no money to buy a bike.

I really can’t ______ with the noise that is going on outside. It is driving me crazy.

David is so curious that no one can ________ from finding out what is going on.

What the salesman said was so persuasive that the old man was completely ______.

It’s surprising that your brother _____ Russian so quickly—he hasn’t lived there very long.