After _____________ smoking, they let the cigarette fall on the wood floor.

The song in the play cannot be deleted as it is _________ to the story.

The lion sprang ____________ the buffaloes.

My brother is devoted _____________ religion.

She remained a __________ all her life.

My father was angry ________ my failure.

Do not stay in the grasslands after dark, as some animals become _________ when they see humans.

___________ you wake me up so early on a Sunday?

The company let me ____ time off work.

There is quite tenuous evidence _________ it.