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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