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Mixed tenses

Robin: I think the waiter (forget) ____________ us. We (wait) _____________ here for over half


1. an hour and nobody (take) ____________ our order yet.
As
Michele: I think you're right. He (walk) _____________ by us at least twenty times. He probably
thinks we (order, already) ________________.

Robin: Look at that couple over there, they (be, only) _____________ here for five or ten
minutes and they already have their food.

Michele: He must realice we (order, not) ____________ yet! We (sit) ______________ here for


over half an hour staring at him.

Robin: I don't know if he (notice, even) ____________ us. He (run) ______________ from table


to table taking orders and serving food.

Michele: That's true, and he (look, not) _______________ in our direction once.

Sophie ____was walking ____(walk) up Regent Street, she met_(meet) an old friend from college.
2. When _ did father arrive___(father/arrive) yesterday?
He __arrived_________(arrive) late. The train __was____(be) delayed due to an accident.
3. Who were you speaking___(you/ speak) to on the phone when I ____came_______(come) in?
4. Mary was reading____(read) in bed when she __heard___(hear) a strange noise downstairs.
5. I couldn’t (hadn’t) attended the evening classes because I worked at night.
6. If I (not work) hadn’t worked__________ at night, I would have attended the evening classes.
7. When Mr. Lawrence __left____(leave) home at 8.30 this morning, the sun _was shining____(shine) brightly.
However, by 10 o´clock it was raining__(rain) heavily.
8. Sebastian _arrived____(arrive) at Susan´s house a little before 11 a.m., but she _wasn’t___(not/be) there.
She __was studying______(study) at the library.
9. I was feeling very thirsty because I (drink) _had drunk________too much alcohol the night before.
10. “I broke my glasses yesterday”, said Lan.
Lan said that she (break) had broken____ her glasses the day before.
11. She (sit) had been sitting__ there for 20 minutes before the doctor (call) called__her name.
12. The man sitting next to me on the plane was very nervous. He haven’t (hadn’t) flown before.
13. The fireman _rescued_____(rescue) a 75-year-old woman who ___was__(be) trapped on the second floor
of the burning building.
14. When the doctor told him his liver was seriously bad, he ate (had been eating) hamburgers for a month.
15. __Did you do__(you/do) any shopping yesterday?
16. I didn’t have a laptop so I wish I (have) ____had had______ a one.
17. Alan (have)__had____hardly (prepare) prepared____for dinner when her husband (come) __came____
home.
18. Yesterday Jane __fell__(fall) and ____hurt___(hurt) herself when she __was riding______(ride) her
bicycle.
19. At first I thought I’d done the right thing, but soon I realized that I made (had made) a serious
mistake.
20. I was very tired when I arrived home. I (work) _had been working__hard all day.
21. What _was Peter doing____(Peter / do) when you _knocked___(knock) on his door?
22. Helen _____wore_____(wear) her dress to the party last night.
23. She worked (had been working) at that company for three years when it went out of business.
24. The passengers (wait) __had been waiting____for four hours before the ground staff could finally
give them information on the delay of their flight.
25. When I noticed my mistake, I (drive) ___had been driving___for an hour in the wrong direction.

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