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TEFL exercises - Pre-intermediate materials - Past Perfect
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Complete the sentences with the correct form of the Past Perfect:
Example Our lunch [be] __ in the oven for seven hours before I remembered to take it out.
Our lunch [be] had been in the oven for seven hours before I remembered to take it out.
1 Mark [go] home when the boss arrived in the office.
2 I didn’t come to the cinema last night because I [see] already the film.
3 They [eat] already all the food by the time we got to the party.
4 Julie was really scared because she [not fly] before.
5 I [not try] sushi before I went to Japan.
6 [live] Richard on his own before he went to college?
7 The car was dirty because Dad [not clean] it for ages.
8 By the time she got to the party we [left] all .
9 They [know] each other for 10 years before they got married.