3.As the years passed， many occasions―birthdays， awards， graduations ____ with Dad’s flowers. 

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

---Have you ________?---No. I had the wrong number. 

The graduation ceremony, which thousands of graduates _________ last night, was a success.

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