I _______to go shopping that Saturday, but the bad weather made me change my mind.

In the past half-century, average incomes _______ quickly in developed countries, yet happiness levels have remained almost the same.

Joe, along with her three sisters, _______great interest in writing these days.

—Did you see a man in black pass by just now?
—No, sir. I ______ a newspaper.

When we first met on a train in 2000, we both felt immediately that we _____each other for years.

--What are you going to do this afternoon?
-- I am going to the cinema with some friends. The film _______ quite early, so we __________ to the bookstore after that.

---How are you         with your new classmates?
---We often help each other.

My uncle, who _______ in Paris for 6 years, now teaches French in a famous domestic university.

Thank you for       me find my little cat yesterday.

Mr Brown and his wife expect that by the year 2015 they __________ in Beijing rather than in other cities.