They became friends again that day. Until then, they ______ to each other for nearly two years.

Hi, somebody ______ the window, please. It’s too cold in here.

—I wonder if you are still an employee in that small company?
—Oh, I ______, but now I’m a public servant in a government department.

--- Could you bring me that novel you _____________ me about when I dropped in on you?
--- Sorry, I can’t. I have given it to a friend.

—Have you thought of the topic for the composition?
— Not yet．I _____ it very carefully, but I haven’t decided．

Yang Jiazheng_____a book about Shuangqiao village last year but I don't know whether she has finished it.

The students ___ busily when Miss Brown went to get a book she ___ in the office.

---Have you persuaded him?
---Yes. After some hours of discussion, I ____ to reason him in accepting the new plan.

The play had already been on for quite some time when we __ at the New Theatre.

The bank, whose walls are painted white, ________a safe and reliable place.