1. Open the brackets using Past Perfect or Past Perfect Continuous.
1. Julia wanted to sit down as she had been standing at work all day long
2. She had learnt “Eugene Onegin” by the autumn.
3. The rain stopped but there were a lot of puddles because it had been raining cats and dogs. (лило как из ведра.)
4. Olivia and Victor had been chatting on Skype for an hour when the connection broke.
5. They had decorated the New Year tree before the children arrived.
6. Bob had eaten up all the muffins by lunchtime.
7. My sister had been doing the laundry since early morning.
8. I knew that our parents had been growing melons in their greenhouse since they bought the house.
9. He had lost much weight by the end of the year.
10. Brown understood the problems of his agency because he nad been working for it since 2005.
2. Put the verbs into Past Perfect or Past Perfect Continuous.
• to listen
My head hurt because I had been listening to music for three hours. – I knew the names of the robbers because I had listened to the news on TV.
• to build
They had been building a new school for six months when there was an earthquake. – They had built a new block of flats by December.
• to fly
By the time the sun went down the couple had been flying over the Pacific ocean for five hours. – By the time the sun went down the couple had flown more than 500 km over the Pacific ocean.
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