Exercise 2
1: He had married her two years before we met.
2: James told me you had bought the old vicarage two years before your son’s
3: I wish we had bought had bought it before.
4: When I arrived at the station, the train had left .
5: He had been playing tennis for 4 hours when he broke his leg.
6: The dog came into the house once she had finished the housework.
7: He had been driving his car for 10 minutes when he realized it had a flat tire.
8: She had thrown the letter away when she noticed it was not important.
9: He had been swimming for 15 minutes when he understood he had lost his swimsuit.
10: It had been raining for one hour when the wind started to blow.
11: He rushed to the baker’s when he saw his wife had forgotten buy some bread.
12: Sarah was exhausted. She had been washing the dishes for more than three hours.
13: When he saw her, he knew he had met her before.
14: When he phoned her, she had gone out.
15: When Ron arrived, the party had already begun.
16: The children had already gone to bed when their mother came from work.
17: If I hadn’t been absent yesterday, I would have met him.
18: I was very tired when I arrived home. I had been working hard all day.
19: When I arrived at the party, Tom wasn’t there. He had gone home.
20: When we got home last night, we found that somebody had broken into the flat.