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  • By the time Nigel was arriving/arrived at the party, everyone ate/had eaten and was dancing/danced.
    had eaten, was dancing
  • The boys had been playing/played in the garden for hours and when I went/was going to check on them, they had kicked/were kicking a football around and laughing/laughed.
    had been playing, went, were kicking, laughing
  • Ellen was thinking/had been thinking about going to Hawaii to visit her sister for some time, so when she had lost/lost her job and was given a generous redundancy package, she immediately called/had called her sister to let her know and t
    had been thinking, lost, called, booked
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