We first met on a train in 2000. We both felt immediately that we ______ each other for years.

The manager was concerned to hear that two of his trusted workers ______. 

When the old man ______ to walk back to his house, the sun       itself behind the mountain. 

The doctor said this new medicine would ________him of his cough last week .

—You don’t look well． Are you ill?—No, the mid-term exam is coming and I       reading until midnight．