The Past Perfect Continuous Exercise - answers

A

1 When the student revolution came, I had been working there for 6 months.
2 Before Jim finally decided to go to Thailand, he had been thinking about it for months.
3 They had eaten all the chocolate cake by the time Michael got to the party.
4 I had met Scarlett Johansson on three previous occasions. Lucky me!
5 The forensic evidence shows that he had been picking his nose just before he was murdered.
6 When the doctor told him his liver was seriously bad, he had been eating hamburgers for a month.
7 Prior to the explosion, the fat man had eaten seven large chocolate cakes.
8 When they cancelled the flight to Alicante, the storm had been raging all afternoon with no sign of abating.

B

1 When I asked Carlos if he wanted to go out, he said he couldn't because he was finishing an assignment.
2 Scarlett came into the room panting. She had been jogging round the park.
3 Scarlett wasn't in. She was jogging around the park.
4 I was having a bath when I suddenly had a great idea.
5 He told me he was seriously thinking about finding another job soon.
6 He had thinking about finding a new job for about a year before he finally got round to it. He´s happy now.
7 It was obvious from her outrageous behaviour that she had been drinking.
8 I was drinking a latte in the Café New York, when I saw a famous actor walk past the window.

 

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