Past Perfect
1.The picture had been painted by 7 o'clock.
Картина была написана к 10 утра.
2We had played before she came back.
Мы играли, прежде чем она вернулась.
3She had finished the letter before I found my phone.
Она закончила письмо, прежде чем я нашел свой телефон.
Past Perfect Continuous
1. He felt very tired when he came home as he had been playing football – Он чувствовал себя очень усталым, когда пришел домой, так как играл в футбол.
2. It had been raining for two hours when I left home – Дождь шел (уже) два часа, когда я вышел из дому.
3. I had been ironing my shirt for 15 minutes, so I didn’t have time to have coffee – Я гладил свою рубашку 15 минут, поэтому у меня не осталось времени, чтобы выпить кофе.
anna akhmatova - was the pen name of anna andreevna gorenko, the leader and the heart and soul of st petersburg tradition of russian poetry in the course of half a century.
akhmatova's work ranges from short lyric poems to universalized, ingeniously structured cycles, such as requiem (1935-40), her tragic masterpiece on the stalinist terror. her work addresses a variety of themes including time and memory, the fate of creative women, and the difficulties of living and writing in the shadow of stalinism.
early life
akhmatova was born in bolshoy fontan near odessa. her childhood does not appear to have been happy; her parents separated in 1905. she was educated in kiev, tsarskoe selo, and the smolny institute of st petersburg. anna started writing poetry at the age of 11, inspired by her favourite poets: racine, pushkin, and baratynsky. as her father did not want to see any verses printed under his "respectable" name, she had to adopt the surname of one of her tatar ancestors as a pseudonym.
1. The picture had been painted by 7 o'clock.
They saw that the band had already gone.
2.He felt very tired when he came home as he had been playing football
It had been raining for two hours when I left home
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