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you been reading it? 8. The pupils have been discussing the novel for
already an hour and a half, which they read last month.
THE PAST PERFECT CONTINUOUS TENSE
Exercise 123.*
1.1 had been sleeping for an hour by eight o'clock. 2. He had been
waiting for him for 20 minutes when he came. 3. She had been working
here for five years by that time. 4. We had been looking for it for
twenty minutes when he came. 5. You had been living there for five
years by that time. 6. They had been working here for three months
before she left.
1. I said that I had been working there for a long time. 2. He
thought that he had been studying it for an hour. 3. She wrote that
they had been reading all day. 4. We knew that you had been playing
chess for an hour. 5. You thought that I had been working there since
1970. 6. They knew that we had been riding all day.
Exercise 124.
1. The girl said that she had been thinking about it all day. 2. He
said that she had been behaving strangely. 3. Tom said that he had
only been in the country for two days. 4. The teacher said that he had
been correcting our dictations. 5. The boys said that they had have
been rowing for a long time.
Exercise 125.
1.1 had been packing my things for an hour and a half when you
came. 2. He had been working in the laboratory for two years by that
time. 3. They had been quarrelling for a long time before she left. 4. The
children had been skating for an hour before it rained. 5. He had been
wearing this suit for a year when she arrived. 6. My brother had been
serving in the army for two years by that time.
Exercise 126.
A: What are you doing now?
B. I'm reading an English book.
A: How long have you been reading?
B: I've been reading it for three hours.
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A: Were you reading it when your mother came?
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В: Yes, I was.
A: How long had you been reading it when your mother came?
В: I had been reading it for two hours by that time.
A: By what time will you have read it?
В. I hope I'll have read it by six o'clock.
A: What are you doing now?
B: I'm writing a letter.
A: How long have you been writing it?
B: I've been writing it for half an hour.
A: Were you writing it when I rang you up?
B\ Yes, I was.
A: How long had you been writing it when I rang you up?
В: I had been writing it for ten minutes by that time.
A: By what time will you have written it?
В: I hope I'll have written it in half an hour.
A: What are you doing now?
B: We're packing things.
A: Were you packing them at four o'clock?
B: Yes, we were.
A: How long had you been packing them by four o'clock?
B: We had been packing them for an hour by that time.
A: By what time will you have packed them?
В: I hope we'll have packed them by six o'clock.
Exercise 127.
1. When I entered the classroom the pupils were discussing the
plan of excursion. They had already been discussing it for 20 minutes.
2. When Olga graduated from the institute, her sister had already
been teaching English at school for five years. 3. His parents left the
flat where they had been living for twenty years. 4.1 had been looking
for my copybook for half an hour before I found it under the
newspaper. 5. Yesterday the postman brought me a letter. I had been
waiting for this letter for three weeks. 6. When we went out it was
raining. It had already been raining for two hours.
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Exercise 128.
1. The pupils said that they studied English. 2. The girl said that
she had learnt French at school. 3. The man said that he was an engineer.
4. My aunt said that she would be at home at seven o'clock. 5.
