`1.` I wish we had met a long time ago.
`2.` There is no instant solution to this problem.
`3.` What Pauline did in the end was to phone the insurance firm.
`4.` It's thirty years since we moved into this house.
`5.` You'd better not eat too many of those.
`6.` Unless the weather improves, the garden party won’t take place.
`7.` Were the government to do the resign, I think they would win the election.
`8.` My friend talked me into going to the party in fancy dress.
`9.` One of the attendants is thought to have stolen the painting.
`10.` It was not until I got home that I realise I had left the parcel behind.