Dressed untidily and speaking in a strange way, Father must have ______ to the people present to be a silly old man.  

I will hire the man _____ they say is a good English speaker. 

Nobody would stand out admitting the fact, for some reason,      they lost the game.

–The floor is dirty. Can anyone clean it?   –_____I do it all the time.

Many old Chinese people have the concept of ________ some money for their future use.