Complete the sentences with the given expressions
amazed at her decisionis of great concernluxurious hotelentirely impossibleconvince the employeesRoughly speakingreminded of summerworth several thousandrestore the buildingpay attention tosank in snow

1. The manager's function in case of a strike is to
   [ ] to stop it and start working as usual.
2. The question about his salary
   [ ] to my friend.
3. The paws of the fox
   [ ] and it was running much slower.
4. My grandma loves her old cottage and will never let anybody try to
   [ ].
5. Passing this exam seemed if not
   [ ], but close to that.
6. The smell of camomile tea
   [ ], and Jacques added honey into his cup and opened the balcony door.
7. Building a new robot is
   [ ] dollars, so we'd better test our idea first.
8. She sold the business to sponsor her son's video games project, and the whole family and colleagues of hers were
   [ ].
9. He couldn't pay for a
   [ ], so they went to Nashestvie Festival to stay in a tent.
10. [ ], he earned a million, though in details there were considerable expenses.
11. Are male animals so colourful because the females never
    [ ] paler species?