Answer — Exercise 16.2
Unit 16 - Past perfect continuous·English Grammar in Use
Question
Read the situations and complete the sentences.
This time make your own sentence.
Answer
- We had been playing for half an hour when it started to rain
- 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.
- At the time the factory closed down, Sarah had been working there for five years.
- The orchestra had been playing for about ten minutes when a man in the audience started shouting.
- I'd been walking along the road for about ten minutes when a car suddenly stopped just behind me.