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17.06.2022 05:33 •  Английский язык

Exercise 5. Put the verbs in brackets into Past Indefinite, Past Continuous, Past Perfect or Past Perfect Continuous.

1.Then she found that the tears (to flow) quietly from her eyes. Perhaps they (to flow) for a long time. 2. One day of the new year she (to sit) as usual at her window when Edward came driving on horseback. 3. He and I (to be) friends since our early twenties.4. I (to read) hardly more then the first three chapters, when my attention was diverted by a conversation going on in front of the store. 5. He (to get) scarcely outside the door when he heard John’s voice talking loudly. 6. Roddy (to walk) rapidly and nervously up and down the room for a minute or two. 7. I knew right away that there was the place I (to look for) all my life. 8. I do not stop to say what adventures he began to imagine, or what career to devise for himself before he (to ride) three miles from home. 9. A few seconds after the stranger (to disappear) to lead Mrs. Budger to her carriage, he darted swiftly from the room. 10. Mrs.Bantly put dowm the telephone receiver. She (to ring) up twice and each time the answer (to be )
the same: Mrs. Marple was out. 11. The sun (to move) a long way up and it (to begin) to get really hot. 12. The light in his flat showed that Mrs. Simpson (to wait) in for him. 13. He (not to eat) since nine that morning and his stomach (to growl) with hunger. 14. They (to arrive) no sooner at this point than a most violent knoking was heard at the door. 15.I tried to feel my heart. I could not feel my heart. It (to stop) beating. 16. After he (to wait) there some time, he sold the sack of flour for a very good price. 17. Mr.Moore now (to sit) silent for several minutes. 18. I think he showed me about thirty canvases. It was the result of the six years during which he (to paint). 19. When the Gadfly (to satisfy) himself that no one (to watch) at the spy-hole he (to take up) the piece of bread and carefully (to crumble) it away. In the middle was the thing he (to expect). 20. Gemma (to cross) the room and (to stand) for a while looking out of the window. When she (to turn round), the Gadfly ( to lean) again on the table and (to cover) his eyes with one hand. He (to forget) evidently her presence. 21. It (to rain) still. It (to rain) for days. I arrived at Hereford Square, (to shake) the water of my overcoat and (to hang) it up, and (to tramp) into the drawing room. 22. It was in this direction that her mind (to run) when her father sent for her to come to him in his room. 23. He (to unwrap) this precious treasure when Julia’s page (to bring) in a supper-tray on which the old Italian cook, who (to serve) Gladys before the harsh new mistress (to come), (to place) such little delicacies as she considered her dear signorino might permit himself. 24. During the last few months she (to change) and (to develop) greatly, and now (to look) a grown-up young woman. 25. They (to travel) in this way about three miles, when Mr.Wardle, who ( to look out) of the window for two or three minutes, suddenly (to draw in) his face and (to exclaim) in breathless eagerness, “Here they are!” 26. I (not to learn) yet how contradictory the human nature is. 27. Almost at the very moment when she (to return) Aileen had appeared. 28. She apparently (to make up) her mind to be good-humoured and (to come up) to him with a little cluster of crimson buds tied together.
29. He (to arrive) about half an hour ago. 30. When the Gadfly (to come) into Zita’s room she (to stand) before a mirror, fastening one of the sprays into her dress.