Pick the most accurate, suitable and elegant Answer. 'The chances of their joining us for a weekend away next summer are looking pretty thin: Megan ... ... baby in May.'

Pick the most accurate, suitable and elegant Answer. 'I ... ... tea with Hannah next Friday week. I wonder whether she ... ... that silly little dog along with her again, as she did once before.'

Pick the most accurate, suitable and elegant Answer. 'It's not much good arranging to meet them in the park for lunch tomorrow: according to this forecast, it ... ... for several hours from mid-morning onwards.'

Pick the most accurate, suitable and elegant Answer. 'If you ... ... there before I do, [ . . . ] Tell all my friends I ... ... too !' ('Negro Spiritual', Swing Low Sweet Chariot)

Pick the most accurate, suitable and elegant Answer. ' . . . And in any case, ... ... over for lunch tomorrow?'

Pick the most accurate, suitable and elegant Answer. 'It sounds a lovely idea to go to that show next weekend; but ... ... most of Saturday?'

Pick the most accurate, suitable and elegant Answer. I had a silly postcard from someone the other day: the picture showed a young child eating with its mouth wide open, so you could see the food falling about inside ~ hardly a particularly pretty sight ~ and the caption said : 'When I grow up, I ... ... concrete mixer'!

Pick the most accurate, suitable and elegant Answer. 'Good morning, and here is the eight o'clock news this morning, on the First of April. A nuclear-powered hydrocarbon fracking rig ... ... in Trafalgar Square', the Government announced today . . . '

Pick the most accurate, suitable and elegant Answer. 'Just as we were about to depart on holiday, someone noticed that the insurance ... ... halfway through our time away.'

Pick the most accurate, suitable and elegant Answer. 'Ah, that's the phone again now. I ... ... ; I daresay it ... ... Auntie Fleur again, worried about the rain.'