When I passed this afternoon ,I saw Mary lying on the grass, her hands        under her head.

With his lips still _______ ，he couldn’t say a word．

All her time ________ experiments, she has no time for films.

— How about the suggestion Prof. Smith put forward at the meeting last Friday? — The committee discussed it for hours without a decision _______. 

With Christmas ________, the children in my class are becoming more and more excited.