I would have loved to have g_______e to school, but I was told it was better I stay at the hospital where I wouldn’t frighten the other children.”
gone
15
So many dreams have come true. And none of us could have done it without you.” The porter looked a little b________l. “Why, thank you, Miss Amber. I have to admit, there have been some absolute beauties, haven’t there?”
bashful
15
“David was his name, but he just wasn’t funny,” added Robin. “Painfully unfunny, actually. When telling a joke, David would say the p______e before the set-up. He would say, ‘The tomato saw the salad dressing. Why did the tomato blush?’”
punchline
15
My passion is for classical music. Opera mainly. So my dream was to be the c________r of an entire orchestra.”
conductor
15
“That lady has d______s in her heart. She enjoys making the children in her care suffer.”
darkness
15
“Why would Sir Quentin ask a bunch of kids to do that?” demanded Dilly. For a moment the Midnight Gang looked s_____d. All eyes turned to Robin, who was considered the smartest member of the gang.
stumped
15
“But you’ve got b__________s over your eyes! You can’t even see!” said the cleaner. It was a good point.
bandages
15
With her eyes the girl indicated her broken arms, encased in p_________r.
plaster
15
Amber looked most displeased that the boy had stolen her t_________r. “I wanted to make him wait!” she protested.
thunder
15
“Membership fees are one thousand pounds a year payable in cash to me,” added Robin. Tom looked confused for a moment, before Robin’s wry smile signalled he was p______g his leg.
pulling
15
The Midnight Gang was relieved to see that Matron was still asleep in her office, s_____g away.
snoring
15
Then he t________d back to his bed, so as not to wake her up.
tiptoed
15
Her hair was sticking up on end and her make-up was s_______d across her face. She looked like a clown who had been dragged through a hedge backwards.
smeared
15
It wouldn’t seem appealing if you had read it on a menu, but the way the lady said it with that musical tone of hers made cornflakes with cold tea sound absolutely scrumptious.
scrumptious
15
“Well, I have made some really good friends on the ward.” “Then make sure you get their addresses before you go, and then they can be p___ _____s.”
pen pals
15
“Fetch two trolleys!” “Why do you need two?” demanded Meese. “Because I am going to p_____ ____t!”
