Choose the correct options to complete the sentences

1. [While|After|During] having lunch, aunt Mary went to see the garden.
2. [Before|After|As] he started digging, he went to the garage and took a shovel.
3. My mum said, "I'll let you go out [while|but|as soon as] you tidy your room."
4. [After|Before|By this time], it was getting cold, and Mary decided to return home and take a warm coat.
5. [By the time|As|As soon as] uncle Joe was digging deeper, aunt Mary gasped with fear.
6. Uncle Joe thought it would be fine. [But|And|As] it turned out worse than he had assumed.
7. [Later|While|As soon as] that day, Pete went to the museum and showed his coin to the expert.
8. It was early spring. [But|And|As] everything was getting more beautiful around.
9. [But|When|And] he saw a bear, he yelled and started to run faster than he could.