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Put the verbs in brackets into the Past Continuous Tense
.1. Detective: I’m afraid I must ask you both what you were doing yesterday at 10.20 p.m. Mr. X: I was playing chess with my wife. Mr. Y: I was listening to a play on the radio.
2. The children were frightened because it was getting dark.
3. It was a fine day and the roads were crowded because a lot of people were rushing to the seaside.
4. The airplane in which the football team was traveling crashed soon after taking off.
5. He usually wears sandals but when I last saw him he was wearing boots.
6. The house was in great disorder because he was redecorating it.
7. The director didn’t allow the actors to travel by air while they were working on the film.
8. The car had nobody in it but the engine was running.
9. Two children were playing on the sand and two fishermen were leaning against an upturned boat.
10. I was alone in the house at that time because Mr Jones was working in the garage and Mrs Jones was shopping.
11. He said that he was the captain of the ship which was sailing that night for Marseilles.
12. Are you going to Rome? I thought that you were going to Milan.
13. My wife and I were talking about you the other day.
14. When I first met him he was studying painting.
15. There was a strong smell and the sound of frying. Mr Jones was cooking fish.
16. Tom ate nothing for lunch because he was dieting. He said that he was trying to lose 10 kilos.
17. Who you were talking to on the telephone as I come in? I was talking to Mr Pitt.
18. As she was climbing the ladder it slipped sideways and she fell off it.
19. When I first met him he was working in a restaurant.
20. He watched the children for a moment. Some of them were bathing in the sea, other were looking for shells, other were playing in the sand.
21. Where was he living when you saw him last?
22. She was standing at the bus stop. I asked her what bus she was waiting for.
23. From the sounds it was clear that Mary was practicing the piano.
24. There had been an accident and man was carrying the injured people to an ambulance.
25.Two men were fighting at a street corner and the policeman was trying to stop them. – What were they fighting about? – Nobody seemed to know.
26. Tom was sitting in the corner with a book. I told him that he was reading in very bad light.
27. I went into the garden to see what the boys were doing. James was weeding and Alexander was cutting the grass.
28. They had taken off the wheel of the car and were mending the puncture. I asked when it would be ready.
29. When I arrived at the meeting the first speaker had just finished speaking and the audience was clapping.
30. The traffic was making so much noise that I couldn’t hear what he was saying.