1. I always get ________ early in the summer.

2. I have never ________ her before.

3. I'm terribly sorry but I ________ what you said just now and I wonder if you could repeat it.

4. I would greatly appreciate it if you didn't ________ up that old argument again.

5. Who would like to ________ off the debate?

6. As far as I was concerned when the accident happened, it was the ________ of the end.

7. I should explain that he finds it very difficult to follow your conversation because he is very hard of ________ .

8. I have been ________ strange stories about you recently but I do hope that there is no substance in them.

9. You could tell the time by him because he always ________ work at exactly the same time every day.

10. Can you ________ me all right over there because you are rather a long way away?