______ nobody else at hand, I had to carry the heavy box to the eighth floor by myself.

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

    her father asleep, the girl dressed up and walked quietly out of her bedroom.

 With everything______, the manager left for England to attend an important business meeting.

John received an invitation to dinner, and with work        he gladly accepted it.