Exercise 33. Insert the Past Indefinite, Past Continuous, Past Perfect or Past Perfect Continuous.

1. Then she found that the tears quietly _ from her eyes. Perhaps they ____ for a long time. (to flow, to flow) (Murdoch) 2. One day of the new year she ____ as usual at her window when Edward came prancing up the drive on horseback. (to sit) (Maug­ham) 3. He and I ____ friends since our early twenties. At this time he was fifty-two, and already an elder statesman of science. (to be) (Snow). 4. I ____ out Honor's letter and ____ it, and ____ to the post. The fog ____. When I ____ I ____ some biscuits and ____ myself with whisky and hot milk. (to copy, to seal, to go, to clear, to return, to eat, to dose) (Murdoch) 5. He told me that an American Signore ____ there for three months. (to stay) (Maugham) 6. She [Aileen] stole downstairs and out into the vestibule, open­ing the outer door and looking out into the street. The lamps ____ already ____ in the dark, and a cool wind ____. (to flare, to blow) (Dreiser) 7. It was true that we ____ one another almost intimately for five and twenty years. (to know) (Maugham) 8. I ____ hardly ____ more than the first three chapters when my attention was diverted by a conversation going on in the front of the store. (to read) (Leacock) 9. She ____ mortally with my husband only ten minutes ago. (to quarrel) (Shaw) 10. He ____ scarcely ____ outside the door when he heard Wardle's voice talking loudly. (to get) (Dickens) 11. The next day he ____ some honeysuckle against the porch, when he heard the Miller's voice calling to him from the road. (to nail up) (Wilde) 12. Roddy ____ rapidly and nervously up and down the room for a minute or two. (to walk) (Christie) 13. I knew right away that there was the place I ____ all my life. (to look for). (Maugham) 14. Half-past eleven. He [the Gadfly] ____ still ____, though the hand was stiff and swollen. (to file) (Voynich) l5. A few seconds after the stranger ____ to lead Mrs. Budger to her carriage, he darted swiftly from the room. (to disappear) (Dickens) 16. At nine o'clock that evening a long black Packard roadster drew up to her door, and Arnie stepped put of the front seat where he ____ with the driver and a girl between them. (to sit) (Wilson) 17. I do not stop to say what adventures he began to imagine, or what career to devise for himself before he ____ three miles from home. (to ride) (Thackeray) 18. Mrs. Banty put down the telephone receiver. She ____up twice and each time the answer ____ the same: Mrs. Marple was out. (to ring, to be) (Christie) 19. The sun ____ a long way up and it ____ to get really hot. (to move, to begin) (Abrahams) 20. He was in the extremity of indecision and very wounded by Rosa's refusal to help him. She ____ even ____ him for the last few days. (to avoid) (Murdoch) 21. The light in his flat showed that Mrs. Simpson ____ in for him. (to wait) (Greene) 22. I called on Mrs. Strickland before Г left. 1. ____ her for some time, and I noticed changes in; her; it. was not only that she ____ older, thinner, and more lined; I think her character ____.(to see — negative, to be, to alter) (Maugham) 23. He ____ since nine that morn­ing and, his stomach.. ____ with hunger. (to eat — negative, to growl) (/. Shaw) 24. They ____ no sooner ____ at this point than a most violent and startling knocking was heard at the door. (to arrive) (Dickens) 25. The old lady was dressed out in a brocaded gown which ____ the light for twenty years. (to see —negative) (Dickens) 26. Very often, afterwards, in the midst of their talk, he would break off, to try to understand what it was the waves ____ always ____ (to say) (Dickens) 27. The women and children and old men ____ Now he was alone with his mother in the little two-roomed shack. (to go) (Abrahams) 28. I tried to feel my heart. I could not feel my heart. It ____ beating. (to stop) (Jerome K. Jerome) 29. After he ____ there some time, he sold the sack of flour for, a very good price. (to wait) (Wilde) 30. Mr. Moore now ____ silent for several minutes. (to sit) (Ch. Bronte) 31. I think he showed me about thirty canvases. It was the result of the six years during which he ____. (to paint) (Maugham) 32. Grimly she began to pack her goods and to prepare to leave the hovel. It ____ for days and water ____ up on the earthen floor... (to rain, to well) (Buck) 33. Seven o'clock ____ hardly ____ striking on. the following morning when Mr. Pick­wick's comprehensive mind was aroused from the state of unconscious­ness in which slumber ____ it, by a loud knocking at the chamber door. (to cease, to plunge) (Dickens) 34. When the Gadfly ____ him-self that no one ____ at the spy-hole he ____ the piece of bread and carefully ____ it away. In the middle was the thing he ____,a bundle of small files. (to satisfy,, to watch, to take up, to crumble, to expect.) (Voynich) 35. Gemma ____ the room and ____ for a little while looking out of the window. When she ____ the Gadfly ____ again ____ on the table and ____ his eyes with one hand. He ____ evi­dently ____ her presence. (to cross, to stand, to turn round, to lean, to cover, to forget) (Voynich) 36. He ____ the key out of the lock, ____ the door after he ____ through it; ____ the key in his pocket, and ____ into the garden, (to take, to secufe, to pass, to put, to go down) (Collins) 37. It ____ still ____. It ____ for days. I arrived at Hereford Square, ____ the water off my overcoat- and ____ it up, and ____ into the drawing room. A bright fire ____ and the lamps were all. on... Antonia, who ____ by the fire, jumped up to wel­come me... She ____ me and ____ what sort of day I ____. (to rain, to rain, to shake, to hang, to tramp, to burn, to read, to kiss, to ask,'to have) (Murdoch) 38. It was in this direction that her mind when her father sent for her to come to him in his room. He ____ home from his office early in the afternoon and by good luck found her in. She ____ no desire to go out into the world these last few days. (to run, to come, to have) (Dreiser) 39. Arthur took out of his portmanteau a framed picture, carefully wrapped up. It was a crayon portrait of Montanelli, which ____ from Rome only a few days before. He ____ this precious treasure when Julia's page in a supper-tray on which the old Italian cook, who ____ Gladys be­fore the harsh new mistress ____, ____ such little delicacies as she considered her dear signorino might permit himself to eat. (to come, to unwrap, to bring, to serve, to come, to place) (Voynich) 40. The first person upon whom Arthur's eyes fell, as he ____ the room where the students' little gatherings were held, was his old play­mate, Dr. Warren's daughter. She ____ in a corner by the window, listening with an absorbed and earnest face to what one of the "initiators", a tall young Lombard in a threadbare coat, ____ to her. During the last few months she ____ and ____ greatly, and now ____ a grown-up young woman... She was dressed all in black, and ____ a black scarf over her head, as the room ____ cold and. draughty. The initiator ____ passionately ____ to her the misery of the Calabrian peasantry. (to enter, to sit, to say, to change, to develop, to look, to throw, to be, to describe) (Voynich) 41. They ____ in this way about three miles, when Mr. Wardle, who ____ of the window for two or three minutes, suddenly ____ his face and ____ in breathless eagerness, "Here they are!" (to travel, to look out, to draw in, to exclaim) (Dickens) 42. He ____ on the step for some time..., when he was roused by observing that a boy, who ____ him carelessly some minutes before, ____ and ____ now ____ him... from the oppo­site side of the street. (to crouch, to pass, to return, to survey) (Dickens) 43. When the Gadfly ____ into Zita's room she ____ before a mirror, fastening one of the sprays into her dress. She ____ apparently ____ her mind to be good-humoured and ____ to him with a little cluster of crimson buds tied together. (to come, to stand, to make up, to come up) (Voynich) 44. He ____ about half an hour ago. (to arrive) (Wilde) 45. Godfrey rose and took his breakfast earlier than usual, but lingered in the wainscoted parlour till his younger brothers ____ their meal and ____. (to finish, to go out) (Eliot)