When you’re the boss you can INVENT your own rules.

I took a pair of scissors and cut off a chunk of my hair in front of my friends. I'm not sure why - maybe I was just TRYING TO ATTRACT ATTENTION.

Has anyone bothered to DISCOVER how much all this is going to cost?

No one ADMITTED (to) breaking the window.

The siege ended peacefully after the gunman ALLOWED THE POLICE TO TAKE HIM AS PRISONER.

I lost the money my mother gave me so I INVENTED something about being mugged.

The gunman ALLOWED THE POLICE TO TAKE HIM AS PRISONER

Billy, please stop TRYING TO ATTRACT PEOPLE'S ATTENTION and sit down quietly!

The three men ESCAPED in a stolen car.

Last night was the first time Ken HAD TALKED about his feelings.

I kept saying I hadn't done it and I almost believed it in the end. I thought I'd MANAGED TO DO IT WITHOUT BEING PUNISHED/CRITIZED, but my mum told me recently she'd always known.

We must act now because WE DON'T HAVE MUCH TIME.