The young man, who had rushed into the fire to save the old man, _____ rewarding.

She ________ down beside me and soon fell a deep sleep.

Sheldon could have defeated Howard in the match, but he _______ too careless at the last minute. 

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

–The Wall Street Journal is giving me a laptop with Windows XP, an operating system I found satisfying when it first _____ eight years ago.–Are you sure? You must be talking big.