Лекция: While the kids ..... in the garden, their mother was hurriedly cooking dinner.

Were playing

Played

Had been playing

Had played

23. Sam says he didn’t enjoy the program because the TV set… properly.

didn’t work

hadn’t worked

wasn’t working

hadn’t been working

Before Adam got married, he… hiking to the mountains every summer. Now he goes to the seaside with his wife.

Went

Would go

Had gone

Had been going

25. I saw Paul at the airport. He… for his brother’s plane to arrive from Canada.

Had been waiting

Was waiting

Waited

Had waited

When I first… to England in 1938, I thought I knew English fairly well.

Came

Had come

Was coming

Had been coming

Scarcely… out of the window when I saw a flash of light.

Had I looked

I was looking

Had I been looking

Was I looking

28. Margaret didn’t wear her shoes; she was barefoot. She… on a piece of broken glass and cut her foot.

Stepped

Had stepped

Was stepping

Had been stepping

29. When I was young, I… that people over forty were very old. Now that I am forty myself I don’t think so.

Thought

Used to think

Was thinking

Had thought

Rescue workers… a man, a woman, and two children from cold rushing water.

Had pulled

Pulled

Were pulling

Had been pulling

31. It's too late to telephone Tom now. I think I… him in the morning.

Will call

Am going to call

Will be calling

Will have called

By the first of December this year I… here for fifteen years already.