At last, we found ourselves at the foot of a hill with trees providing shade and      ________  down to eat our picnic lunch.

You should thank Peter. It was he who finally ____ your son to stop smoking and playing computer games.

Everybody tried to help those people ________by the recent earthquake.    (    )

 When I was in Spain last summer, I ______ quite a lot of Spanish.

The silence of the library _____ only by the sound of pages being turned over.