The final score of the basketball match was 93-94. We were only ________ beaten. 

"I wish you’d look at me when I'm trying to speak to you!" the teacher said      .

-- ______________, I can make it home by 8:30 when the football game will be on TV. -- Well, it depends on how efficiently you work.

We could hardly believe what she says because she is ________ changing her mind. 

The teacher was___ a very old man, but in fact he was only a little over fifty.