The glass works _____ in 1959.

From the city to its satellite town _____ only less than one hundred miles. 

The mother, as well as her two daughters, ____ to the theatre with some friends this evening.

—I called you at 5:00 yesterday afternoon, but no one answered.—Sorry, I with my parents ________ at that time.

 The writer and professor, whom I often refer to at the meetings, ____ famous for those works.