Put the verb in brackets into the most suitable form, Past Simple, Past Continuous, Past Perfect or Past Perfect Continuous.

1 Nobody _______________(know) where Smith _______________(go).

2 A girl who ______________(stand) under the beech tree _______________(come) to us.

3 Mary _______________(speak) to Mr. Boxwell when I _______________(see) her in the corridor this morning.

4 John _______________(drive) his car in Fifth Avenue when a young man in dark glasses _______________(appear) from nowhere and _______________(stand) before him.

5 He again _______________(come) to the village where he _______________(live) in childhood.

6 While we ____________(be) there somebody __________(knock) at the door.

7 He _______________(look) into the drawing-room. The old man _______________(sleep) peacefully in the armchair at the fire-place.

8 When their visitor _______________(appear) John and his mother _______________(stand) near the window.

9 When he _______________(dress), he _______________(go) downstairs and _______________(write) a long letter to his parents and another to his sister.

10 She _______________(welcome) her with a bright smile and _______________(come) back to the offensive dandy lions she _______________(fight) with.

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