She hated living in London at first but now she ________ it.

He _________ coffee when he was studying for his exams.

When I started to work here I needed a lot of help, but now I ________ all the work on my own. 

He _____________ several books a month, but he doesn't have time any more.

We were surprised to see her driving – she ___________ when we first met her. 

When I had to commute to work every day I ___________  very early. 

I'm afraid I'll never ____________  in this place. I simply don't like it and never will.

Whenever we came to Coventry we always _____________ in the Central Hotel. We loved it. 

When Pete Smith was the head of our office everything ____________ well organized. Now it's total chaos here.

There Was a Crooked Man!

David Suchet plays disgraced tycoon Robert Maxwell Maxwell

There's a „you couldn't make it up‟ quality to the life story of newspaper baron Robert Maxwell. He was born into extreme poverty in Czechoslovakia in 1923, and (1) ______ he arrived in this country (2) the age of 17, he couldn't speak a (3) ______ of English. Yet he (4) ______ to become a war hero, fighting (5) ______ a captain in the British Army, and one of the most high-profile — and controversial — business magnates of the 20^th Century.

This week's BBC2 drama Maxwell (6) ______ the story of the final months of his life, leading up to his mysterious drowning off the coast of Tenerife in 1991.

His media empire, which included the Daily Mirror, Macmillan Publishing and the New York Daily News, was haemorrhaging cash. In a desperate attempt to staunch the losses, Maxwell (played by David Suchet) started to raid the pension funds of his companies, stealing about £500,000.

„He (7) ______ nothing to become this huge business magnate and massively colourful figure,‟ says David, best known for his role as Agatha Christie's Belgian detective Hercule Poirot.

„Even though Maxwell gatecrashed society events and made (8) ______ he was photographed with powerful figures such as Russia's President Gorbachev, he never felt embraced by society. He became a media tycoon (9) ______ he was desperate to have influence.‟

David (10) ______ hours of footage of Maxwell and says he developed a strong sense of his character's intimidating natural authority.

„Playing Maxwell, I felt the sheer power of the man,‟ he says. “That's dangerously intoxicating for everyone. Down the centuries, nothing has been abused more than power— from Napoleon and Hitler to Saddam Hussein. If you know that when you click your fingers people will jump to attention, it can be very seductive.‟

He was born into extreme poverty in Czechoslovakia in 1923, and (1) ______