Complete these sentences with the appropriate verb.

1. The price of fuel has through the roof.
2. We hope that this scientist’s work may the key to solving the problem.
3. A degree in economics the door to a number of interesting job opportunities.
4. Whenever you try to initiate something in this company you find that, sooner or later, you up against a brick wall.
5. Lucy’s father the roof when he saw that she’d dyed her hair purple.
6. Ben over all the other lawyers in his firm. He is by far the most able.
7. Her argument with the board last year has, unfortunately, a lot of doors for her in this company.
8. The roof in on their world the day that war was declared.