Question

Should complete the text on page 234 by filling in the gaps with the correct past tense form of the verbs given.
My husband and I were working as cook and waiter at a hotel in the south of England , and living with our six-month-old baby in a cottage nearby.For once we (manage)to get an evening off together , and one of the hotel staff had volunteered to babysit for us so that we could go out to the cinema together.
We caught the bus to the nearest town, about ten kilometres away, but we(not watch) the film for more than a few minutes before I (start) to feel terribly uneasy.I could distinctly smell anything and told me I (imagine) things.but the smell (follow) reluctantly , muttering something under his breath.
As we made the journey home on the bus I prayed for it to go faster.At each stop I almost died.At last we (rush) down the lane leading to the cottage.The smell of burning was now very definite to me . though my husband still couldn`t smell anything .We reached the door and burst in.As we did, dense smoke(pour) out anda chair by the fire burst into flames.I rushed through to the bedroom and got the baby , while my (smoke)and had dallen asleep and (drop) her lighted cigarette onto the chair.We later worked out that it must have happened just as I first (smell) smoke in the cinema

Answer 1

1 managed
2 haven't watch
3 started
4 was imagining
5 followed
6 rushed
7 poured
8 was smoking
9 dropped
10 have smelled