3. They (fight) this court case for three years when they decided to settle it themselves. 4. The scientist (look) at the stars through his telescope for several hours, but he had not spotted anything unusual. 5. My father wanted to know why I (insist) on buying that encyclopedia. 6. The patient's condition remained stable because he (take) plenty of fluids. 7. The Principal felt happy because her students (give) a consistently good performance. 8. 1 (listen) to her arguments for quite some time. She impressed me as a competent lawyer, 9. Though they (work) the entire morning, they had done very little because they did not have any sophisticated tools. 10. I said that though I (support) her, I had not always been happy with her style of functioning.​