Mary was taken to be ____.

When the teacher told the boy to sit down, he _____ to her and said she couldn’t make him.

We should_______ what we can afford for tomorrow’s picnic in spite of our poor living conditions.  

I soon found that the work I was doing had already been done by someone else－    , I was wasting my time.

You were _______ to take your shoes off when you entered the school lab, but you didn’t.