Question

1) Put the verbs in brackets int to Simple Past, the Past Continuous, the Past Perfect and the Past Perfect Continuous:
1)When I visited him in Berlin I discovered that he (paint) just the same stale things that he (paint) for years in Rome.
2) He was laughing heartily at a story which (tell) Gabriel on the stairs.
3) While he (be) full of memories of their secret life together , she (compare) him in her mind with another.
4) By the time he (speak) for five minutes the spirit (go) out of us all.
5) Once he nearly got run over by a bus. He (collect) bits of evergreens.
6) They (talk), but as they saw me at the gate there was a hush.
7) His composure (return) when he and Chrystal called on me after the ball.
8) He (do) to men's work for months. His fundamental work (not, receive) that attention that he looked for.
9) Mrs Jago welcomed us with a greater assumption of state than ever; she (tell) herself that no one wished to see her.
10) I asked him if he (see) Jack recently.
11) Oh, why didn't you tell me I (keep) you? she said, getting up at once.
12) For the moment, he was not smoking, for long enough he (not, talk).
13) I remembered something I (read) only a few hours before.
14) She wanted to join her guest who (just, arrive).
15) Soon after wards , Mrs. Jago came in from the concert.
She was happier than I (ever, see) her, she (be exalted) by the music, she (mix) with fashionable Cambridge.
16) Meanwhile, Roy (drink) faster than the rest of us.
The dangerous glint (come) into his eyes.
17) When I (sit) there for five minutes II saw Mahony's grey suit approaching.
18) He (stand) in the twilight, but she (switch on) the lights as we went in.
19) When did you know you (make) a discovery?

Answer 1

1) painted / had been painting
2) told
3) was / compared
4) was speaking / went
5) collected
6) were talking
7) returned
8) has done / didn't receive
9) told
10 ) saw
11) kept
12) didn't talk
13) had read
14) just arrived
15) have ever seen / was exalted / mixed
16) was drinking / came
17) sat
18) stood / switched on
19) had made