They told me the name of the baby, Gustavo, like his father; I ________ have liked the name Fernando better, but said nothing.

She recognized him because of the hat. He was standing with his back to her on a cliff ________ out across a dark sea.

He was so cold, he seemed so proud, ________ every time she met him, she experienced a kind of emotional electric shock.

Despite a population of only 60,000 people in the area, ________ remains a split between three diverse racial groups.

I had just enough energy for a bit of wine in the Irish Bar, where the sweet Irish music relaxed me to the point ________ I had to take myself up to bed.

But more than a month passed, real winter had come, and everything was still clear in his memory as though he ________ with Anna only the day before.

In recent months, behind closed doors the chairman and vice chairman ________ heated disagreements over whether to make public the findings or the documents.

Applying make-up on crowded buses is worse than ________, which ranks as number 9 bad manners.

. I feel the thing that’s exciting to me about this work is finding ways to do something in the space of an evening ________ people can sit through to deal with large concerns.

________ he still paused uncertain, he became aware that the driver was looking closely in from the street at this unusual scene.