Past perfect continuous (I had been doing)
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16.2

Read the situations and complete the sentences.

  1. We played tennis yesterday. Half an hour after we began playing, it started to rain.
    We when .
  2. I had arranged to meet Tom in a restaurant. I arrived and waited for him. After 20 minutes I suddenly realised that I was in the wrong restaurant.
    I for 20 minutes when I the wrong restaurant.
  3. Sarah got a job in factory. Five years later the factory closed down.
    At the time the factory , Sarah there for five years.
  4. I went to a concert last week. The orchestra began playing. After about ten minutes a man in the audience suddenly started shouting.
    The orchestra when .

This time make your own sentence:

  1. I began walking along the road. I when .


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