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Sam _________ (not receive) the parcel the last time I _________ (speak) to him.

hadn't received / spoke

I _______ (consider) buying a house but now I ________ (change) my mind.

was considering (had been considering) / have changed

When you ______ (feel) hungry, room service _______ (bring) you whatever you want.

feel (are feeling) / will bring

I _______ (find) it difficult to convince the ticket inspector that I ________ (lose) my ticket, but he believed me in the end.

found / had lost

Ever since I _______ (be) a young child, I ________ (die) to meet you.

was / have been dying

As soon as I __________ (have) a look at the designs, I _________ (send) then to you. You'll get them by Friday.

have had / will send

Whatever ________ (happen), I ________ (meet) you here in a week's time.

happens / will meet

By the time you ______ (finish) getting ready, we _______ (miss) the train.

have finished (finish) / will have missed

Sally! I ________ (not / expect) to see you here! What ________ (you / do) in New York?

was not expecting (did not expect) / are you doing

I realized someone _______ (steal) my wallet when I ______ (feel) their hand in my jacket pocket.

was stealing / felt

When I _______ (phone) Helen last night she ______ (wash) her hair.

phoned / was washing

Peter _______ (offer) me another drink but I decided I ________ (have) enough.

offered / had had

Nobody _____ (watch), so the little boy _______ (take) the packet of sweets and ________ (put) it in his pocket.

was watching / took / put

I _______ (not realize) that I _______ (leave) my umbrella on the bus until it _______ (start) to rain.

did not realize / had left / started

At school I _________ (dislike) the maths teacher because he _______ (always pick) on me.

disliked / was always picking (always picked)

Whenever Marion _________ (find) a job, there was someone who _________ (know) that she ________ (go) to prison.

found / knew / had gone (had been)

Several years later I ________ (find out) that during during all the time I _______ (write) to my penfriend, my mother ________ (open) and reading my replies!

found out / had been writing (had written) / had been opening

I ______ (not understand) what _________ (go on). Several people _______ (shout) at me, and one passer-by _______ (wave) a newspaper in front of my face.

did not understand / was going on / were shouting (shouted) / was waiving (waved)

I ______ (know) I _______ (do) well in my exams even before I ________ (receive) the official results.

knew / had done / received

So far we ______ (not notice) anything unusual, but we _______ (not pay) very close attention.

haven't noticed / haven't been playing

I'm sorry I ________ (not come) to class lately.

have not come / have not been coming

I ________ (work) late in the evenings for the past fortnight.

have been working

I wonder if Jill _________ (reach) home yet? She ________ (leave) too late to catch the bus.

has reached / left

Here is the news. The Home Office ________ (announce) that the two prisoners who _______ (escape) from Dartmoor prison earlier this morning ________ (give themselves up) to local police.

has announced / escaped / have given themselves up

________ (you / make up) your minds? What _______ (you decide) to do?

Have you made up / have you decided

Harry ________ (leave) home rather suddenly and we _______ (not hear) from him since.

left / have not heard

Recent research _______ (show) that Columbus _______ (not discover) America, but that Vikings ______ (land) there five hundred years before him.

has shown / did not discover / landed

_______ (something / happen) to the phone lines? I ______ (try) to get through to Glasgow for the past hour.

Has something happened / have been trying

Bill ______ (get) that new job, but he _______ (complain) about it ever since.

got / has been complaining

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