We British love chocolate. I remember as a child going on my first trips to continental Europe and being baffled, for none of the countries I visited seemed to have the sort of corner shops we have. Where, I wanted to know, did they get their chocolate? The answer was that they didn't, or at least not in the way we did. We spend more on chocolate than any other country in Europe, £3.5bn a year according to the latest figures. That's £57 per head, a significant slab of it over this Easter weekend. The only European country that spends more per head than us is Switzerland, at a whopping £111, but we all know that doesn't count because that will be the poncey stuff, hewn from vintage beans of single estate origin, harvested at dawn when the breeze was blowing from a particular direction. You just kn
3 12.6.9 Put the verbs in brackets into the past perfect or the past perfect continuous.
1 How long before the rescue team arrived? (had you been waiting)
2 The hikers (had drunk) all their water by the time they reached the village.
3 They for two hours before the storm started. (had been walking)
4 Nagima felt relieved she (had survived) such a frightening experience.
5 Why (hadn't you checked) the weather forecast before you left?
6 The rescue team (had been searching) for so many days that they began to lose hope.