Your headmaster would have been happy to give you two days off, if you had gone and explained that your parents ________ ill at the time.

— Marx looks nervous.— So____________you if you had so fierce a competition.

 — Shall I pick up your shopping for you?　　　　— Oh, I couldn’t possibly trouble you.　　　　— It’s all right. I _________ past the shop anyway.

The reporter said that UFO           from east to west when he saw it.

 —Do you like traveling? —Sure. I _____ to Australia six months ago, but I _____ anywhere since then.