Tense Revision

We _____ to the top of Holborn Hill before I _____ that he was not smiling at all.

Turning from the Temple gate as soon as I _____ the warning, I _____ my way to Fleet Street, and then _____ to Covert Garden.

Seventy-seven detective novels and books of stories by Agatha Christie _____ into every major language, and her sales _____ in tens of millions.

In recent years, scientific and technological developments _____ human life on our planet, as well as our views both of ourselves as individuals in society and of the universe as a whole.

Before we _____ from swimming in the river near the camp, someone _____ out clothes, and we had to walk back with our towels around us.

Our new neighbours _____ in Arizona for ten years before moving to their present house.

We went into the house by a side door and the first thing I _____ was that the passages _____ all dark, and that she _____ a candle burning there.

The sun _____ brightly all day on the roof of my attic, and the room was warm.

Although the period that we call "the Renaissance"_____ in Italy in the fourteenth century, this idea of rebirth in learning characterized other epochs in history in different parts of the world.

In spite of the fact that it _____ all day long, the match _____ and the stands were full of spectators.

Many football fans claimed that after "Real FC" _____ that important game it _____ no chance to win the championship.

I wish he _____ last Friday but his flight _____ because of bad weather. If he _____ the next day I would have brought him by car.

After many long years of devoted and patient instruction, the doctor _____ able to get the boy to clothe and feed himself, recognize and utter a number of words, as well as write letters and form words.

At the first stages of the Industrial Revolution advertising _____ a relatively straight forward means of announcement and communication and was used mainly to promote novelties and fringe products which _____ unknown to the public.

Towards the end of the 19th century the larger companies _____ more and more on mass advertising to promote their new range of products. The market during this period _____ by a small number of giant, conglomerate enterprises.

To cater for the fitness boom of the 80s and provide the up-to-date facilities people want, over 1.500 private health and fitness clubs _____ during the past 15 years.

In 1936 the British Broadcasting Corporation _____ to provide a public radio service. Since then the BBC _____ by the establishment of independent and commercial radio and television, which _____ the BBC's broadcasting monopoly.

The Neolithic Age was a period of history which _____ in approximately 6000 B.C. and _____ until 3000 B.C.

A major problem in the construction of new buildings is that windows _____ while air conditioning systems _____ .

We are late. The film _____ by the time we get to the cinema.