Past Tense of Irregular verbs.

Emily Carr, British Columbia's most famous artist, __________ (be) born in 1871. Her parents __________ (die) when she was still a teenager. She __________ (study) art in San Francisco and Paris, but when she __________ (come) back to Victoria, she ___________(keep) a house called "The House of All Sorts", where she ___________(be) the landlady. Many years later, she ___________ (begin) painting again. To find subjects for her paintings, she ____________ (take) trips into the forests of British Columbia, and she often ____________ (meet) with the First Nations people and __________ (paint) them too. Emily Carr also ___________ (write) several books, and she __________ (win) the Governor General's Award for one of them.