Past perfect + Past perfect continuous

Past perfect simple and continuous - exercise 1

Choose the correct tense - the past perfect simple and continuous or past tenses.

Example: I had to have a break. I ___ so long. (drove, had been driving)
We ___ the contract before the meeting ended. (had signed, had been signing)

I had to have a break. I so long.

Before we parked our car we the ticket.

I arrived on Sunday. I at home for two days.

The roads were blocked in the morning. It all night.

They got to the beach after they for hours.

She called the police when she the light in the hall.

His English was perfect. He it since he started school.

I was really hungry. I anything since the morning.

She didn't go to work. She a cold.

When we moved to Park Street, the Johnsons there for ages.

We the contract before the meeting ended.

Ben was so sweaty because he .

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