C: Complete the sentences using the past perfect or the past perfect continuous.
1. By the time I got home they had eaten all the cake.
2. The room was very smoky. I could tell that my brother had been smoking in there all afternoon.
3. She retired at fifty-five, but she had been working hard all her life.
4. James was very irritable. He had been looking for his contact lens for an hour and he still hadn’t found it!
5. I was furious with Tom when he arrived. I had been waiting for him for hours.
6. Harry was sad to sell his car. He had had it for a long time.
7. Mary was covered in white paint. She had been decorating the kitchen all afternoon.
8. Lucy went into the sitting room. The TV was on. Her brother had been watching it and had forgotten to switch it off.
9. Hattie felt terribly sick. She had eaten too many cream cakes.
10. The journey was incredibly long. We had been traveling for ten hours and we weren’t even half way yet.
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