Write one word only in each gap.
JUDITH: Hello, you're home early. How did the meeting go?
АLEX: Awful! It all started to go wrong when the car broke down. I didn't want (example) to get my suit dirty so I gave up (1) to fix it after a few minutes.
JUDITH: So then what did you do?
АLEX: You know I hate (2) getting to a meeting on time ... so I took a taxi.
JUDITH: Alex! That must have been really expensive!
АLEX: I didn't intend (3) go all the way by taxi - just to the station as I knew there was a train at about nine o'clock. But there was an accident on the way, and I missed the train anyway.
JUDITH: So you went all the way by taxi?
АLEX: Yes, the driver didn't want (4) take me because he had another appointment but I persuaded (5) to. Of course he made (6) pay the whole fare, and extra because he'd missed his appointment.
JUDITH: Oh, Alex.
АLEX: Then at the office they said I couldn't give my presentation because I was late
-I didn't (7) hem see I was annoyed, but I was! They were angry, too
- they had hoped to (8) the meeting on time so that they could finish by lunchtime, and they had waited for me for over an hour. It was a completely wasted day.
JUDITH: And a really expensive one!