Question: 1 My desk is a ……. , I should clean it.

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Question: 2 Valerie spilled water ……. my paperwork.

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Question: 3 Will you please take ……. the trash?

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Question: 4 I like pencils ……. than pens.

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Question: 5 My old job was ……. than this one.

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Question: 6 Tom works the ……. of anyone.

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Question: 7 This is the ……. assignment I have ever had.

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Question: 8 My boss is very ……..

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Question: 9 Do you walk ……. take the bus to work?

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Question: 10 The janitor cleans the office ……. night.

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Question: 1 It’s no good worrying about that now because the damage is done and it’s no good crying over spilled ……..

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Question: 2 It really is a crying ……. that after all that money has been spent, the project is now being abandoned.

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Question: 3 As a child she would burst into tears at every problem and so she soon got known as a regular ……. at school.

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Question: 4 It really was a large and spacious garden but it cried out ……. something colourful to be planted.

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Question: 5 We had great hopes of being able to invite the distinguished writer to our meeting but he cried ……. at the last moment.

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Question: 6 For crying out ……. how many times do I have to tell you how to work that machine?

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Question: 7 I’m all in favour of ambition but I think when he says he’ll be a millionaire by the time he’s 25, he’s simply crying for the ……..

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Question: 8 The trouble is that he’s cried ……. so often that now he’s in real trouble, nobody believes him.

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Question: 9 George is now 70 and he reckons that working conditions for the average office clerk today are a ……. cry from when he first started work.

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Question: 10 There was a noisy crowd of about a dozen people in ……. cry chasing after the child who’d stolen an apple from the fruit market.

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Question: 1 It’s very hard trying to get the tenses right in English. In fact it’s the ……. devil to know whether it’s simple or continuous.

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Question: 2 In a way it’s probably just as well the deputy has become the new chief. It’s a case of ……. the devil you know.

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Question: 3 Many people have been made redundant in the takeover and those who joined last were the first to go. The principle of devil take the ……. applied.

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Question: 4 We don’t really get on with the new boss but he has some good ideas so we must give the devil his ……..

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Question: 5 The work has to be done as we have no choice. As they say, needs must when the devil ……..

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Question: 6 She likes to take the opposite point of view and play the devil’s ……..

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Question: 8 When your parents find out what you’ve done, you’ll be in serious trouble and there’ll be the devil to ……..

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Question: 9 You should really look through that agreement carefully before you sign because the devil is in the ……..

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Question: 10 It took me ages to set up my computer because I spent the devil of a ……. trying to understand the notes.

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