Exercise 8. Put the verbs in brackets into the Past Continuous Tense.

1. All this time Tweedledee (to try) his best to fold up the umbrella. (L.Carroll)

2. He (to look) at his watch uneasily and (to shake) it every now and then, and (to hold) it to his ear. (L.Carroll)

3. The soldiers always (to get) up and (to walk) off to other parts of the ground. (L.Carroll)

4. The King and the queen all (to talk) at once. (L Carroll)

5. On a stormy night, in the tempestuous times of the French revolution, a young German (to return) to his lodgings, at a late hour, across the old part of Paris. (I.Washington)

6. The small birds (to take) their farewell banquets. (I.Washington)

7. Tears (to run) down the face of the Happy Prince. (0. Wilde)

8. 'Last summer, when I (to stay) on the river, two rude boys always (to throw) stones at me'. (0. Wilde)

9. 'Well, they (to tell) lies, they (not)?' (J. B. Priestly)

10. Robert, Gordon and I (to work) well together in the firm. (J. B. Priestly)

11. What Olwen (to do) there? (J. B. Priestly)

12. Olwen: You were outside just now, weren't you? Outside the window, listening.

Betty: No, I (not to listen), I (to try) to peep in. (J. B. Priestly)

13. Freddy: Where you (to go)? (B. Shaw)

14. Higgins: I (not to try), to look nice, mother. (B. Shaw)

15. The path still (to go down) and (to keep) in the same direction. (J. R. R. Tolkien)

16. They (to pass) bowls from hand to hand, and some (to harp) and many (to sing). (J. R. R. Tolkien)

17. They (to sit) at the open window of a small room looking out west onto the garden. (J. R. R. Tolkien)

18. Our scrubby cargoship (to paddle) the sullen sea. (G.Greene)

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