–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.

They were surrounded by the enemy, but finally they _____ out of the encirclement.

When I talked with my grandma on the phone, she sounded weak, but by the time we ___ up, her voice had been full of life

After the meeting was over, the secretary _____ the new workers to the master’s office.

Jane got up at 7, dressed and made herself up, and then        herself in the mirror before going to work.