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Past Perfect ContinuousSet 15

1Last year, as it ..... continuously for weeks during the monsoon season, the streets became flooded.
2"They ..... (discuss) the project for hours before reaching a conclusion."
3The two climbers stopped to rest. They ..... for hours and were exhausted.
4The printer had not been working well.
5The players ..... for 20 minutes by the time we arrived at the tennis match.
6We (watch) ..... the play when the lights went off.
7They were really tired because they ..... tennis for hours.
8I'm sorry I left without you last night, but I told you to meet me early because the show started at 8:00. I ..... to get tickets for that play for months, and I didn't want to miss it.
9Fill in the blank with the correct form of the verb.He ..... (live) in Oxford for two years before he graduated and moved to London.
10How long had you been learning/had you learnt Spanish before you went to South America?
11Which question is correctly written in the Past Perfect Continuous tense?
12When Tommy came up, the girls ..... for a long time.
13He ..... for two hours in the meeting room.
14Lara (write) with my pen for a week.
15Harry's a joker. For a long time ..... about joining the army, so his friends were shocked to hear he actually had.
16Complete: 'By the time they arrived, we ..... for an hour.'
17After she ..... the violin for ten years, she joined an orchestra.
18Identify the tense: Brad had been waiting for 2 hours by the time the bus arrived.
19The composer ..... on the score for months when the movie was postponed.
20Aedil ..... all day, so he had a headache.
21Fill in the blank: "He ..... in Mumbai for ten years before 2017."
22They ..... the wedding for months when he discovered she was actually in love with somone else
23Select the correct tense of SLEEP to complete this sentence.Ben ..... twelve hours when his mom finally woke him up.
24I ..... (think) about the problem all day, and finally, I found a solution.
25Traduce: Ellos habian estado comiendo detras de la casa mientras las mesas se desocupaban.
26Scenario:Leo looked exhausted and had smudges of paint on his face when he came to dinner. Which sentence best explains why, using the Past Perfect Continuous tense?
27Robert ..... in Melaka since his first daughter was born.
28She ..... English in Italy before she came here.
29In 1943, the war ..... on for five years.
30She asked me if I wanted to go to the cinema, but I ..... in the garden the whole day and all I wanted to do was go to bed.
31Which time signal is commonly used with Past Perfect Continuous?
32Complete the sentence to show the action was ongoing before the discovery:When I walked in, I could tell my brother ..... my video games without asking.
33Cathy ..... the piano for 35 years
34Complete the sentence:He ..... on his project since last week when his teacher finally checked it.
35We (not travel) overseas for five years.Which is the correct past perfect continuous for the sentence above?
36She was excited because she ..... (plan) her trip to Italy.
37Identify the sentence in the past perfect progressive tense:
38The bus finally came after ..... for 2 hours.
39They ..... working on the new feature for six months when it was finally released.
40The ship just ..... in Mumbai after it ..... for two days.
41If he ..... more confident during the interview, he might have got the job in that company
42I ..... regularly, so I wasn't in good shape for the race.
43He ..... on the project for weeks before it was completed.
44The novel, which ..... for more than a decade, finally received recognition after it was adapted into a movie.
45Sam's throat was sore because she ..... her speech all afternoon.
46He was tired because he ..... all day.
47Identify the tense in the sentence: 'I had been studying for hours.'
48Which sentence correctly uses the past perfect continuous tense without any errors?
49What tense is it?They'd been fighting.
50Identify the tense in the following sentence:It had been raining since last night.
51No sooner ..... the announcement made than applications began flooding in.
52Choose the progressive form being used in the sentence: We had been reading until class began.
53The sentence ..... I had been trying to pull out that plant in the garden when Robert came and helped me.Is an example of .....
54By the time their mum got home, the boys ..... for an hour.
55How long had you ..... English before you moved to Miami?
56She ..... for three hours when the guests finally arrived.
57The designer ..... on the character models for months before the redesign.
58Which sentence correctly uses the past perfect continuous to emphasize the *long duration* of an activity, rather than just its completion?
59Everyone was shocked the goalkeeper ......
60Our grandfather ..... as an engineer for 30 years before he retired in 1980.
61Complete the sentence with the correct past perfect continuous form:My baby sister ..... for 20 minutes before my Mum came in to feed her.