was

A bus ____ when I was sitting on the bench.

It was well known that Thomas Edison______ the electric lamp.

When _____ where he was born, John said he was a New Yorker.

--I told you that he would come to see you.--Actually I had little doubt _____ his story was true.

--If he _____that the mushroom was poisonous, he _____ it. --Luckily he was sent to the hospital immediately.

Since my first book was published last month, my telephone hasn’t stopped ringing. Many  friends of mine _____ to express their congratulations to me.

 I was ______the drawing and bought it _____300 yuan.

It was a very long day _____Tom. He didn't get home from school ___six o'clock.

When she was young, she___ at ten in the evening and she soon____.

The little girl _____ but her family was too poor at that time.