2) 1 I couldn’t open the suitcase because I had lost the key.
2 She had a good tan because she had been sitting in the sun all morning.
3 Paula couldn’t use her debit card because she had forgotten her PIN number.
4 We had been waiting for over an hour before the repair truck arrived.
5 When the policeman asked for my ID card, I said I had left it in my hotel.
6 Their boots were dirty because they had been playing football all morning.
7 I couldn’t stop the car because the brakes had failed.
8 The garden was all white because it had been snowing heavily all night.
9 She started to cry when I told her her dog had died.
10 I got to work late because I had woken up late that morning.
4) I found this story while I was reading Spotlight the other day: ‘In 1986, a Canadian man rose from the sofa where he had fallen asleep, drove 14 miles, killed his mother-in-law and seriously injured his father-in-law. He was charged with murder but acquitted when a court had accepted his lawyer’s argument – and his physician’s evidence – that he had been sleepwalking.’
1 I couldn’t open the suitcase because I had lost the key.
2 She had a good tan because she had been sitting in the sun all morning.
3 Paula couldn’t use her debit card because she had forgotten her PIN number.
4 We had been waiting for over an hour before the repair truck arrived.
5 When the policeman asked for my ID card, I said I had left it in my hotel.
6 Their boots were dirty because they had been playing football all morning.
7 I couldn’t stop the car because the brakes had failed.
8 The garden was all white because it had been snowing heavily all night.
9 She started to cry when I told her her dog had died.
10 I got to work late because I had woken up late that morning.
I found this story while I was reading Spotlight the other day: ‘In 1986, a Canadian man rose from the sofa where he had fallen asleep, drove 14 miles, killed his mother-in-law and seriously injured his father-in-law. He was charged with murder but acquitted when a court accepted his lawyer’s argument – and his physician’s evidence – that he had been sleepwalking.’
At first they were short films, then they were long films.