People always hate betting on football. __________ to our joy, our legal authority took action at length.

There was such a long queue for coffee at the interval that we ____ gave up.

The committee is discussing the problem right now. It will ______ have been solved by the end of next week.

With his mother’s good care, the boy is _____ recovering from his heavy cold.

It won’t be easy, but we’ll get across the river ______.