It is five years since my dear aunt _______ here.

----- Will you do me a favor to have dinner with me at seven this evening?----- I’m afraid I can’t. I ______ a lecture at the meeting hall at the time.

 If you ______ stop smoking , you can only expect to have a bad cough .

It’s only six o’clock now; Little Tom should be up ,though, because he _____ for nine hours.

After a fire broke out in the workshop, a lot of equipment ____.