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The key answer of exercise 16.2

The key to exercise solutions in chapter Unit 16 - Past perfect continuous for the textbook English Grammar in Use with authors Raymond Murphy from Cambridge University Press

Question

Read the situations and complete the sentences.

This time make your own sentence.

Answer

  1. We had been playing for half an hour when it started to rain
  2. I'd been waiting for 20 minutes when I realised that I was in the wrong restaurant. / I'd been waiting for 20 minutes when I realised that I had come to the wrong restaurant.
  3. At the time the factory closed down, Sarah had been working there for five years. 
  4. The orchestra had been playing for about ten minutes when a man in the audience started shouting. 
  5. I'd been walking along the road for about ten minutes when a car suddenly stopped just behind me.