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Prepositions

13 The bank clerk stood (against/towards) the wall.

14 We waited (down/under) a tree.

15 1 put my suitcase (on top of/over) the wardrobe.

92 Prepositions of position and movement

Check

Use the most suitable prepositions from Exercises 89, 90, and 91 to complete
these sentences. Sometimes more than one answer is possible.

1 The dog ran ., round t,. the tree five or six times.
2 We flew slowly the suburbs of Paris.

3 I moved the baby the fire.
4 The police ran the crowd and arrested a young man.
5 If you put some money here, the machine will start.
6 They had nowhere to stay so they slept a bridge.

7 The town hall is the library and the museum.
8 We watched the soldiers as they walked our house on
their way to the ship.
9 They ran out of the dressing-room the football pitch.

10 London is the south-east of England.
11 The dog stood the door and waited.
12 They walked hand-in-hand the side of the canal.
13 I didn't want my mother to see her present, so 1 held it

my back.
14 The cat jumped my arms and ran away.
15 I threw the stone the sea.
16 The bottles fell the lorry and rolled the hill.

17 It was too dark to see so he walked slowly, holding his arms
him.
18 I put a chair the door to stop anyone coming in.
19 We crawled a hole in the fence.

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