You are given an English sentence with a blank, and you need to predict the missing word. After completing, the whole sentence should be gramatically correct and non-ambiguous.

was ascending the ____ leading to debray's apartments
stairs

i've never seen one but i can imagine what she would look like i don't ever expect to be a bride myself i'm so homely nobody will ever ____ to marry me unless it might be a foreign missionary i suppose a foreign missionary mightn't be very particular
want

if he'd run out of turnip seed he ____ dress up and take the buggy to go for more

wouldn't