The traffic to the beach started to build up at noon. ____ 2. If I were you, I would go for that job. ____________ 3. When the child ’ s pleas didn ’ t work, he resorted to tears. __________ 4. Who is seeing to the arrangements for the next meeting? ___________ 5. Before long he had taken to a girl student in his class. ____________ 6. The boy was well brought up . ________________ 7. The meeting has been called off. ________________ 8. This paper comes out once a week. _______________ 9. His comments amount to treason. _____________ 10. The firm had to lay off 100 men. _____________ 11. My investment in these stocks had really paid off. ____________ 12. The children didn ’ t quite get on to what the teacher was saying. ______ 13. She is not really that way. S he is just putting o n . ____________ 14. Take the watch apart and see if you can see what ’ s wrong with it. ____________ 15. Even the most experienced eye may be taken in on certain occasions. __________ 16. We have decided to take on a new clerk in the accounts department. ___________ 17. Our firm took ove r 2 fruit packing companies last year. _____________ 18. I don ’ t want to come down with the flu again. _____________ 19. I will have to fill in fo r Wally until he gets back. ______________ 20. Put the food where the cat can ’ t get around to/ at . _____________ 21. We could hardly make out what she meant. _______________ 22. I couldn ’ t put up with the noise any longer. ______________ 23. She indulged in luxury and made a mess of her life. ____________ 24. The house has changed hands several times. ______________ 25. He couldn ’ t account fo r his long absence from school. ____________