With the police _______ the traffic, we could get back home safely in such bad weather.

To our great relief, ______ time going on, more and more of the victims of the earthquake were rescued.

 The children went home from the grammar school, their lessons _____ for the day.

There      a lack of money, we had to put off building this special school. 

It was a pity that the great writer died _______his works unfinished.