—Did you stay up late last night?—Not very late.  It was half past eleven         I went to bed.

She liked the dictionary so much that she would like to take it ____________ it cost.

Reality is not the way you wish things to be, nor the way they appear to be, ___ the way they actually are.

Martin drove along ______ he found a convenient parking place．

We won’t give up ______________we should fail ten times.