He _____ football regularly for many years when he was young.

The meat tastes as though it ____ bad. Throw it off.

——Have you found the house for me, Ms Mary?——Yes, but I will tell you what trouble I had ______ your house on the way I came here. 

I don’t smoke now, but I _______ for more than twenty years. 

When I met him the other day，it was the first time we________each other since we were at school.