They telephoned from the library to say that they had found the book I was looking for, but it ---- to be the wrong edition.

The trouble with golf as a hobby is that it ---- too much of one’s time.

In his fiction William Faulkner uses a complex literary style that seems to ---- his intricate themes of good and evil.

The Council of Europe, the continent’s oldest political organization, was ---- in 1949 to defend, among other things, human rights and the rule of law.

As a family we are used to moving from one part of the country to another, and we usually --- - pretty quickly in each new home

The visitors were taken to the airport, and there they were ---- by the assistant manager.

If this business goes on in such an awful way, it will ---- hundreds of unemployed.

Every community in the world recognizes certain activities as crimes, and has developed its own way of ---- them.

Out of the work of the great thinkers of the seventeenth century was developed a new outlook on the world, and it was this outlook which ---- the decay of the belief in witchcraft and other superstitions.

The term “geography” ---- the English language in the 16th century from Latin and ultimately Greek, at the time when European navigators were beginning to explore Africa and the New World.