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Incomplete Sentences / Intermediate level - Protests
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1. who was also ....... by some as a bit of a wheeler dealer (someone who does business in an underhand way).
2. And if she was really ....... with herself she was beginning to have a teenie weenie (very small) feeling of doubt as to whether she was doing the right thing.
3. At the beginning it was a bit harum scarum (disorganised) and people were running higgledy piggledy (in different and chaotic directions) but soon everything ....... down -
4. One morning there was quite a hubbub (loud noise and activity) in the Fortune ....... when Drew came rushing into the sitting room helter skelter (running at great speed) -
5. They lived in a des res (very attractive house) and her father - John Fortune - who was really a bit of a fat cat(wealthy businessman) thought that all this animal ....... was a lot of hocus pocus (nonsense).
6. and people who had been running about pell mell (in confusion) were now standing ....... and listening to the speeches.
7. And then one incident at the end of the rally convinced her that she had ....... the right decision to work for the organisation.
8. As far as her father was concerned this was ....... double trouble (two problems) -” first working for Fortune and now getting involved in a demonstration.
9. He had been in his hey day (at his most successful time) an important ....... in a government department for agriculture.
10. A police officer on horseback was ....... the crowds and she found herself being gently moved by the horse.
11. She used to socialize with people who ....... the same way as she did.
12. She felt ....... and was pleased she had come to the demonstration.
13. In fact because he had refused to kow tow to (accept without question) some of the official regulations - he had been forced to take ....... retirement.
14. Her parents however were not at all pleased ....... where she had decided to work.
15. She just wished that her father could ....... and be even steven (fair) about her side of the argument.
16. These people were not at all fuddy duddy (uninteresting) or indeed hoity toity (supercilious) and their main interest in life was to ....... that all animals were well treated.
17. But as far ....... Drew was concerned - he was the bee's knees (someone to admire) and when she left school - she went to work as his assistant in the Society for the Protection of Animals.
18. After all she thought her brother was enjoying himself and had gone ....... to work in America as a result of the brain drain (talented people leaving their own country to work for better pay in another).
19. Drew and her father had several pow wows (conversations) about her decision but it usually ....... up with a lot of argy bargy (arguments).
20. Drew didn't believe any of this and was delighted to be working for Geoffrey Winton if for no other ....... than that living at home was very humdrum (boring).
21. As far as he was concerned this would be a ....... of time because the speakers at the rally would just talk mumbo jumbo (nonsense).
22. From a very early age Drew had been passionate ....... animals.
23. But Drew had made up her ....... and the next morning wham bam (very quickly) she caught the early train and went off to the rally.
24. On the train journey she began to think about what her father had said with his ....... to the rag bag (muddled collection) of ideas in her organisation.
25. The rest of the organisation thought that she and Winton were a dream team (ideal partners) because she was enthusiastic and he was very ........

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