I ______ the boy to save the money, but he would not listen to me.          

 All of us still remember the terrible tsunami that _____ the areas in the southeast of Asia in 2004.

 It _______ that Chinese football team beat Japanese team at the last moment in the Universiade in Shenzhen.

It was a long time before the police________what he was really doing.

The teacher told the students that they______ to be useful men to the country.