___taken away made his parents worried and they had to turn to the police for help.

With a lot of difficult problems _________, the manager felt like a cat on hot bricks.

With everything she owned ______ in the fire, the woman had to turn to the local government for relief.

The Smiths have gone to New York for their holiday, with an old servant ____ their house.

Many strange new means of transport have been developed in our century, the strangest of _______ being perhaps the hovercraft(气垫船).