—I didn’t expect that John would be absent from my last Sunday’s birthday party.
—As far as I know, he ______ to see his parents in the countryside on Sundays.

—I have a headache.
—I’m not surprised you ________ in front of the computer for too long.

They           in Holland for ten years. Now they have settled down in Paris.

She ___ volleyball regularly for many years when she was young.

—Will you attend the ceremony tomorrow?  —What ceremony? I ____ informed of anything about it．

---Monitor?  --- I’m not monitor of our class. I __ with the teacher until the monitor is elected.

The old woman who______in the deserted house alone for ten years has been settled in a nursing home now.

John is not a man to count on, and it is very likely that the work ____ by the time he arrives here.

John talked with me for about an hour yesterday．Never ________ him talk so much．

The hotel wasn’t particularly good. But I ____ in many worse  hotels.