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Before I was starting / started / have started my present job, I was working/worked for a bank for two years.
Before I started my present job, I worked…
They waited/were waiting until everyone had left/was leaving the bank and then broke in / were breaking in.
They waited until everyone had left the bank and then broke in.
When the helicopter finally (find) us, we (sit) in the lifeboat for hours and (eat) all our food.
When the helicopter finally found us, we had been sitting in the lifeboat for hours and had eaten all our food.
I met/have met her when we were/had been at school together.
I met her when we were at school together.
Correct this sentence: As soon as she was seeing the time, she was jumping out of bed.
As soon as she saw the time, she jumped out of bed
When we got/were getting to the party, everyone danced and drank/was dancing and drinking.
When we got to the party everyone was dancing and drinking.
I couldn't see anything as I lost / had lost my glasses.
I couldn't see anything as I had lost my glasses.
Correct this sentence: By the time our food arrived, we waited half an hour.
By the time our food arrived, we had been waiting half an hour.
Correct this sentence: By the time the emergency supplies arrived, thirty people had been dying.
By the time the emergency supplies arrived, thirty people had died.
Correct this sentence: The roads were very slippery as it rained all morning.
The roads were very slippery as it had been raining all morning.
I was so late that by the time I got there, all the food had eaten/was eaten/had been eaten.
…all the food had been eaten.
Correct this sentence: When I was a small child, we had lived in a house in the country.
When I was a small child, we lived in a house in the country.
Correct this sentence: When I had got to the office, my boss had been leaving.
When I got to the office, my boss left/was leaving/had (already) left.
Correct this sentence: She'd been written emails all day, so she was tired.
She’d been writing emails all day, so she was tired.
The kitchen was a mess as I was cooking/had cooked/had been cooking all day.
…as I had been cooking all day.
We (drive) for about ten minutes when we (notice) smoke coming from the engine
We had been driving for about ten minutes when we noticed smoke coming from the engine.
