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Exercise 100.
Explain the use of The Past Perfect Continuous in the following
sentences.
1. We were tired as we had been walking for more than an hour. It was
time to rest a little. 2. The boy had been reading the
task in physics for a long
time but still he didn’t understand it. 3. Mrs. Jackson was one of the best
teachers at the school. She had been teaching for twenty years. 4. Dora was
writing a letter to her boyfriend. She had been writing
it since she got home
from class. 5. My eyes were getting tired. I had been reading for two hours. I
decided to make a break. 6. Mr. Robbins liked his job. He had been working at
the company for fifteen years. 7. She put aside the sweater which she had been
knitting. 8. The secretary closed the file which she had just been looking
through. 9. They had been driving all night when finally they saw the lights of a
big city. 10. When I entered the flat, I saw that everything was in a mess.
Somebody had been searching the rooms. 11. The boys had black eyes and torn
trousers. They had been fighting. 12. At least he got the opportunity he had been
waiting for so long.
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