1. Peter (was reading) by the fireplace when the door ( opened) and the maid ( entered). The cook (followed/was following) her.
2. When the mother (had satisfied) herself that the children (were sleeping) peacefully in their beds, she (took) out the Christmas presents and carefully (put) them into the stockings which (were hanging) at the beds.
3. If you (ring) me up tomorrow, I (will tell) you all about it.
4. The lesson (has not yet begun), and the children (are talking) loudly in the corridor.
5. I (have lived/have been living) in St. Petersburg since 1991.
6. By the fifteenth of January the students (had passed) all the examinations.
7. The students (had written) the paper by dinner-time.
8. They (had been sailing) down the river for many hours before they (came) to the village.
9. I (have not been) to my home town for five years.
10. The rain (had stopped) by the time we (reached) home.
11. The message (arrived) five minutes after he (had left) the house.
12. It (was) nearly eleven o'clock when we (began)
doing this work.
13. At last the reply from my grandmother (had come), and my mother (told)
me that she (would come) soon.
14. Here you (are) at last! I (have been waiting) for you for twenty minutes. Are you (not ) ashamed?
1) The first person whom Andrew saw as he entered was his old nurse.She was sitting on the sofa.During the last five years she had greatly changed and now was looking a very old woman.
2)She is going to read the letter she has just received.
3)How long have you been waiting for me?
4)Yesterday I met a friend of mine whom I hadn't seen for a long time.
5)Ring me up at eleven o'clock,I won't be sleeping yet.
6)You will be late for the concert if you don't take a taxi
7)The sun set a long time ago, and it is beginning to get really old.
8)When I came home yesterday, my sister had already returned and was sitting at the fireplace looking throught some old photographes.
9)He (had)smoked three cigarettes and (had)looked throught all the books on the shelf,when at last he heard his friends steps approaching the door.
10)He had just approached the door, when she entered
11)He has been writing the composition for three hours and he says he will soon finish it as he is thinking over the conclusion now.
12)Hardly I went/(had I gone)out when I remembered that I had forgotten to take my umbrella.
13)Where is the baby?- The nurse is putting.
14)He said he had been working for a long time without achieving good results.
Philip got up at 6 o'clock
She went out every Friday
He forgot his keys
I slept late
Peter worked for 8 hours yesterday
My children watched tv yesterday