Mr Birling

• Fairly easy _______, but rather ___________ in his speech

  manners provincial
• Giving us the ______, Edna? That's right.

  port
• Oh - come, come - I'm treating Gerald like one of the _________. And I'm sure he won't ____________.


  family object
• You're just the kind of son-in-law I always wanted. Your father and I have been ___________ rivals in business ... and now you've brought us together, and perhaps we may look forward to the time when Crofts and Birlings are no longer ___________ but are working together - for lower costs and higher prices. (P. 4)

  friendly competing
• And I'm talking as a _____-__________, practical man of business. And I say there isn't a __________ of war. The world's developing so fast that it'll make war impossible. (p. 6-7)

  hard-headed chance
• So - well - I gather there's a very good chance of a __________ - so long as we __________ ourselves, don't get into the police court or start a scandal - eh? (Laughs complacently). (p. 8)

  knighthood behave
• It's one of the ________ nights of my life. (p. 3)

  happiest
• A man has to make his own way - has to look after himself - and his _______ too, of course, when he has one - and so long as he does that he won't come to much ________. (p. 10)

  family harm
• But the way some of these _______ talk and write now, you'd think everybody has to look after everybody else, as if we were all mixed up together like bees in a hive - __________ and all that nonsense. (p. 10)

  cranks community
• I was an _____________ for years - and Lord Mayor two years ago - and I'm still on the _________ - so I know the Brumley police officers pretty well - and I thought I'd never seen you before. (p. 11)

  alderman Bench
• (rather impatiently) Yes, yes. _________ business. But I don't ___________ why you should come here, Inspector - (p. 12)

  Horrid understand
• Oh - that's it, is it? Well, we've several ____________ young women there, y'know and they keep ___________. (p. 12)

  hundred changing
• Still, I can't __________ any responsibility. If we were all responsible for everything that happened to everybody we'd had anything to do with, it would be very __________, wouldn't it? (p. 14)

  accept awkward
• I've told you all I know - and now there isn't any reason why my daughter should be __________ into this _____________ business. (p. 17)

  dragged unpleasant
• I don't see we need to tell the _____________ anything more. In fact, there's ___________ I can tell him. (p. 16)

  Inspector nothing
• Perhaps I ________ to warn you that he's an old friend of mine, and that I see him _______ frequently (p. 16)

  ought fairly
• All right, Edna. ___________ him in here. Give us some more ________. (p. 10)

  Show light
• _________! If you don't come down _________ on some of these people, they'd soon be asking for the earth (p. 15)

  Rubbish sharply
• She'd had a lot to say - ____ too much - so she _____ to go. (p. 5)

  far had
• (_______ in) Just a minute, Sheila. Now Inspector perhaps you and I had better go and talk this over _________ in a corner- (p. 18)

  cutting quietly
• I must say, Sybil, that when this comes out at the _________ , it isn't going to do us much good. The ________ might easily take it up- (p. 45)

  inquest Press
• (_________ now) Look Inspector, you're not trying to tell us - that my boy - is ________ up in this? (p. 49)

  terrified mixed
• Of course. Somebody put that ___________ up to coming here and __________ us. There are people in this town who dislike me enough to do that. (p. 63)

  fellow hoaxing
• You! You don't seem to care about anything. But I care. I was almost certain for a ___________ in the next __________ List - (p. 57)


  knighthood Honours
• (angrily) Yes, and you don't realize yet all you've done. Most of this is bound to come out. There'll be a ___________ scandal. (p. 57)

  public
• (unhappily) Look, Inspector - I'd give ___________ - yes, thousands - (p. 56)

  thousands
• You made her pay a ______ price for that. And now she'll make you pay a heavier _______ still. (Inspector, p. 56)

  heavy price
• (with marked change of tone) Well, of ________ , if I'd known that earlier, I wouldn't have called you __________ and talked about reporting you. You understand that, don't you, Inspector? (p. 18)

  course officious
• (angrily) Don't talk to me like that. Your __________ is - you've been _________ - (p. 54)

  trouble spoilt
• You must give me a list of those __________. I've got to _______ this up as soon as I can. You ___________ fool - why didn't you come to me when you found yourself in this mess? (p. 54)

  accounts cover damned