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<exercise subhead="dragdrop"><media type="none"/><head><title>Prepositions exercises</title><task>Use the arrow to choose the best word or  phrase for each space.</task></head><body>
<item desc="1"><text>We lost </text><choice_g><choice>about</choice><choice>as</choice><choice>behind</choice><choice correct="y">by</choice></choice_g><text> five goals to two.</text></item>
<item desc="2"><text>What's the logic </text><choice_g><choice>across</choice><choice correct="y">behind</choice><choice>into</choice><choice>with</choice></choice_g><text> this decision?</text></item>
<item desc="3"><text>Police officers had been trampling all </text><choice_g><choice>about</choice><choice>by</choice><choice>into</choice><choice correct="y">over</choice></choice_g><text> the ground.</text></item>
<item desc="4"><text>He blushed </text><choice_g><choice correct="y">at</choice><choice>for</choice><choice>off</choice><choice>on</choice></choice_g><text> the mention of her name.</text></item>
<item desc="5"><text>Her hands were grasping </text><choice_g><choice correct="y">at</choice><choice>behind</choice><choice>onto</choice><choice>with</choice></choice_g><text> his coat.</text></item>
<item desc="6"><text>The call echoed </text><choice_g><choice>against</choice><choice>as</choice><choice>beyond</choice><choice correct="y">off</choice></choice_g><text> the walls of the cave.</text></item>
<item desc="7"><text>He wrote a doctoral thesis </text><choice_g><choice>against</choice><choice>for</choice><choice correct="y">on</choice><choice>to</choice></choice_g><text> set theory.</text></item>
<item desc="8"><text>He's promised me first option </text><choice_g><choice>as</choice><choice>in</choice><choice correct="y">on</choice><choice>toward</choice></choice_g><text> his car.</text></item>
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