Turning up half an hour late for the interview really cooked his __________ .

We were hoping to keep the wedding a secret, but my mother soon let the _________ out of the bag.

You are flogging a dead _________ trying to get Jim to change his mind.

I don't think I'd recognise her now; it's ___________ 's years since I last saw her.

Henry has really gone to __________ since his wife died. Looking at him now it's difficult to believe that he was once a successful doctor.

It's not that I mind giving her a lift home every Monday, but what gets my __________ is the fact that she's never once offered to pay for the petrol.

As I had to go to Sochi on business, I decide to kill two _________ with one stone and visit Olympic park as well.

Although he had only known her for two weeks he decided to take the ______ by the horns and ask her to marry him.

She loved tennis and could watch it till the _______ come home.

You're upset now, I know. But you'll soon forget her - after all, there are plenty more ______ in the sea.

That's the last time I invite Steve for dinner. He really made a _______ of him last night.

Don't be fooled. She's not abit sad; they are just ______ tears.

When their grandmother died, Stella and her sister got the ____'s share of her money.

After years of commuting from Brighton to London, he decided to get out of the _______ race and buy a small farm in Wales.

When I tell my parents that James and I have decided to call off the wedding, they are going to have ________ .