1. I need to ____ my shoes before we go out; these ones are too tight.

2. You should never ____ the law, even if you think you have a good reason.

3. It is often very difficult to ____ a bad habit once it has been formed.

4. He is not a reliable person because he tends to ____ a promise easily.

5. It would ____ her heart if she found out that you had lied to her.

6. To get to the museum, you have to ____ trains at the central station.

7. The wind began to ____ direction, blowing strongly from the North.

8. You have to ____ a corner at the end of this street to find the post office.

9. Please ____ a page and look at the diagram at the top of the next sheet.

10. The teacher used a colorful chart to ____ the students' attention to the board.

11. I always ____ my clothes as soon as I get home from work.

12. He didn't want to talk about his failure, so he tried to ____ the subject.

13. I'll try to ____ Ted's mind about leaving his job before he makes a mistake.

14. No one was willing to ____ their silence and help the police with the investigation.

15. At the party, I decided to make the first move and ____ the ice with a joke.

16. In old Western movies, cowboys were known to ____ a gun at the slightest pretext.

17. The famous athlete Jesse Owens ____ four Olympic records in 1936.

18. My holiday was ____ short when I broke my leg while skiing in the Alps.

19. Well, to ____ a long story short, our car broke down in the middle of nowhere.

20. I make a conscious effort to visit my grandparents ____.

21. ____, the lottery numbers I had chosen appeared on the television screen.

22. I used a Do-It-Yourself manual and built the entire tree house ____.

23. ____, the final contender in tonight's competition is from Venezuela.

24. Most people are, ____, creatures of habit who dislike sudden changes.

25. ____, I didn't actually like the birthday present you gave me.