Past Simple/Perfect/Continuous

By the time I got to the bus stop, the bus          .

We           planting the trees in the garden when it started raining.

By ten o’clock, all the passengers           the plane.

He suddenly realised that he (travel) in the wrong direction.

They (wait) for her when she finally arrived.

I saw Carol at the party. She (wear) a beautiful dress.

When she got a steady job, they (buy) a better house.

I (read) the Economist while my sister was watching BBC 1.

I (write) a letter when the lights went out.

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Yesterday I____________ to the cinema and later I _______my friends.

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I__________a magazine when the doorbell_________ .

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Mr. Collins__________ when he _________ a huge brown bear behind the tree.

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My mother___________me that she __________a new bicycle for me.

Yesterday he ... that he .... Nick a week before.

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