Use the Past Perfect Continuous or the Past Perfect in the following sentences.

1. I didn’t remember much about the Pimleys whom I (to see) for about twelve years. 2. He said that they (to hunt) hard for seven days. 3. She was aware that they (to get) on each other’s nerves lately. 4. He told me he (not to hear) from her since the day she walked out of their office. 5. I was happy that ever since Max moved in here, the place (to ring) with laughter. 6. I knew they (to know) each other since the war and now (to correspond) for years. 7. It seemed to me that I (to do) nothing since I arrived. 8. Here I saw this man, whom I (to lose) sightof some time; for I (to travel)in the provinces. 9. I saw that it was 2 o'clock. We (to sit) there an hour and a half. 10. Rainborough noticed that she (to cry), her face was stained with tears... 11. George made no answer, and we found that he (to be) asleep for some time. 12. I told him I (to be) in all evening. I (to wait) to talk with him. 13. They (to drive) for half an hour before Blair spoke. 14. He quite forgot that Ann (to be) divorced for three months. 15. He went to the theatre to see the play which (to run) for a week.

6. A) Put the verbs into the most suitable form: the Past Indefinite, the Past Continuous, the Past Perfect and the Past Perfect Continuous.

1. The workers ……. (to be) on a strike for three weeks when the agreement on pay ……. (to be reached). 2. When she got the results of her medical tests, she realized that she ……. (to be feeling) ill since she …… (to be) on holiday. 3. The door was unlocked. She ……. (to wonder) who ……. (to leave) the door open. 4. He ……. (to play) football when the ball …….(to hit) his head. 5. He ……. (to drive) to work for half an hour when suddenly his car ……. (to break) down. 6. When he ……. (to arrive) at the office he ……. (to discover) that he ……. (to leave) all the necessary papers at home. 7. Susan ……. (to type) some letters when the boss ……. (to ask) her into his office. 8. She looked tired. She ……. (to type) letters all morning. 9. Yesterday afternoon it ……. (still to rain) when I ……. (to get) home. 10. He ……. (to clean) the car when the phone rang, so he ……. (not to answer) it. 11. When I ……. (to be) little, my mother ……. (to use) to feed me. 12. Jane’s clothes were wet. She ……. (to wash) her dog. 13. Jerry ……. (to be) nervous, for he ……. (never to flow) in an aeroplane before. 14. I ……. (never to like) going to the cinema on my own when I was a teenager. 15. Kate ……. (to dance), but when she saw a newcomer she ……. (to stop).

B) Are the sentences right or wrong? Correct mistakes (the Past Indefinite, the Past Continuous or the Past Perfect Continuous).

1. She was in the swimming pool. She had swum. 2. The boy was leaning against the tree, out of breath. He was running fast. 3. He came into the kitchen. His parents stopped talking. They were talking about him. 4. She came into the room. Her husband was at the desk. He wrote. 5. When the newly weds arrived at the restaurant, their guests had been waiting for them. They were feeling rather hungry because they were waiting for a long time. 6. Julia were standing at the bus stop for twenty minutes when Ivo drove up and got out of the car. 7. 2. It was very noisy next door. Our neighbors had a party. 8. The telephone rang for a few minutes before somebody picked up the receiver. 9. When I was getting home that evening, my little son was eating himself for the first time. 10. My sister’s wedding was the only thing everybody was talking at home for the last two weeks. 11. Presently he turned to look at the corner where she stood. 12. He just left for the airport when I called. 13. “Who are you thinking of?” he asked after he was looking at me for a few seconds. 14. They had been standing in the open front doorway, waiting for her to come in out of the rain. 15. Their daughter wasn’t saying where she slept and she had a curiously looking box in her hands.

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