He couldn’t retake the exam because he missed too many lessons.

Much to my astonishment, I found his lecture on wildlife conservation extremely interesting.

Peter told us about his leaving the school. He did it on his arrival at the meeting.

She wasn’t early enough to catch the bus.

“I will help you with the housework”, Mai said to me.

They arrived late, so they didn’t have good seats.

“How brave you are!” he said to the firemen.

She gave in her notice. She planned to start her new job in January.

I spent a long time getting over the disappointment of losing the match.

We survived that accident because we were wearing our seat belts.

Although it rained heavily, they went on working.

She finished her driving lesson. Her father allowed her to use his car.

The old man is working in this factory. I borrowed his bicycle yesterday.

They know that the Prime Minister is in favour of the new law.

We spent about one-third of our lives sleeping. We know relatively little about sleep.

The bill includes service.

It’s more than a couple of years since I last went there.

It was an interesting novel. I, therefore, stayed up all night to finish it.

They think that the prisoner escaped by climbing over the wall.

We can’t deny that all of us made certain mistakes.

The basketball team knew they lost the match. They soon started to blame each other.