FCE Past Perfect Simple vs Past Perfect Continuous | Baamboozle - Baamboozle

She ... (live) in London all her life and was reluctant to move, even when she got married.

had lived

I ... (watch) the programme every week for nearly two months, but to my horror I had to miss the last episode.

had been watching

She ... (ride) her pony all afternoon when we glimpsed her briefly as she went into the wood.

had been riding

he children excitedly collected the nuts that ... (fall) from the trees.

had fallen

I had enormous difficulty recalling the complex password I ... (commit) to memory the previous night.

had committed

The waiter, who was very stressed, brought a fruit drink that I ... (not order).

hadn't ordered

When they got home, they discovered that their babysitter ... (already put) their toddler to bed.

had already put

When I finally reached the end of the queue, I found out that my colleague ... (pick up) the tickets an hour earlier.

had picked up

We referred to the documents that the professor ... (hand) to us at the start of the lecture

had handed

The hurricane completely destroyed the cottage they ... (build) only a year earlier

had built

He ... (cheat) on his exams for over a year before he was caught

had been cheating

We were furious because we ... (wait) on the plane for five hours before we took off

had been waiting

It was nearly a year before his boss realised he ... (leave) early every Friday

had been leaving

She needed to start with some very gentle exercises but she ... (lie) in bed for nearly a month

had been lying

When we ... the other guests ... (leave)

arrived/had left

The trainee pilot took off before everybody ... (fasten) their seatbelts

had fastened

When he ... (open) the safe, the secret documents ... already ... (take)

opened/had already been taken

The police arrested him even though he ... (not do) anything wrong

hadn't done