ex.2
1. The conversation had been going on about the departure for the last hour. (go on)
2. The man had been holding to the end of the seat. (hold)
3. I had been travelling for two days. (travel)
4. A man had been crouching behind the hedge. (crouch)
5. He had been thinking of it for some considerable time. (think)
6. The sun had been getting lower and lower. (get)
7. She had been speaking simply of his disease. (speak)
8. It was what he had been driving at. (drive)
9. It was what she had been expecting. (expect)
10. It was just what he had been wondering. (wonder)
11. It was evident she had been weeping. (weep)
12. I said I had been taking a walk. (take)
13. People had been complaining about the food. (complain)
14. It had been sleeping in her heart. (sleep)
15. This was what I had been waiting for. (wait)
16. I had been looking at him silently. (look)
17. They had been talking for more than an hour. (talk)
18. She had been examining the boat closely. (examine)
19. Pauline had been reclining on the ground. (recline)
20. That was the information I had been hoping for. (hope)
ex.3
1. She hadn’t been looking down at the deep, treacherous pool at all. (look)
2. For, if Madge hadn’t been talking with David, Dot and Daisy would never have run away from her and disappeared. (talk)
3. If Eve Nolan hadn’t been puttering with some of her trick films at the time-she and Walt Harris had the so-called night shift-and seen them blacken, we’d have been dead before they discovered it. (putter)
4. He hadn’t been thinking for nothing. (think)
5. He realised at once that Mrs. Gregg hadn’t been listening to his account of the statue, but that she was replying to his original suggestion. (listen)
6. And so it was, though I hadn’t been intending what the French call a double entendre at the time. (intend)
7. Proofs hadn’t been lacking of the truth of Bill Petersen’s radio warning. (lack)
8. If she hadn’t been sitting with her back to the light, Letty might have noticed the dark rings under her eyes. (sit)
9. We could row that way long enough, and if Sam and Nate hadn’t been saving their strength, we could win. (save)
10. Sigi embarked upon the ocean in a small boat, and he hadn’t been sailing long when a little skiff drew near, wherein was an old man with one eye, wearing a broad-brimmed grey hat. (sail)
11. Maurice objected that he was not in any way a victim of hallucinations, that he hadn’t been dreaming, that he had seen his guardian angel with his eyes and heard him with his ears. (dream)
12. When she went into the little drawing-room Audrey was sitting in the deep-cushioned window-seat with a book on her knee; and by the fact that it was open at the index, Barbara judged that she hadn’t been reading too attentively. (read)
13. In pausing to formulate his thoughts, he became conscious that Miss Masters hadn’t been taking his dictation; that she had laid an envelope on his desk directly in front of where he usually sat, and that she was putting on her hat. (take)
14. He pitched forward as though falling to avoid the explosion, just as we would have done if we hadn’t been holding a stretcher. (hold)
15. I should have thought twice before speaking, if I hadn’t been giving my main attention to Professor Newton. (give)
16. No matter what he might do in the future, he could not redeem the past; and if Farnsworth felt he hadn’t been playing the game right, he ought to take the matter in his own hands and get off the team. (play)
17. Again, old man Carlson was in very needy circumstances; his boy hadn’t been living with his wife for four years. (live)
18. I knew instinctively that it was Jean Pahusca, and that he hadn’t been expecting me to be there after my call and had failed to notice me in his eagerness to creep unseen down the slope. (expect)
19. Once in the theatre, it was seen that Dickey and Mopsey hadn’t been wasting their time, for there was such a collection of cast-off uniforms and weapons as would have furnished a much larger company than theirs with outfits. (waste)
20. Although she and Miss Mercy hadn’t been speaking since the episode of the butterfly, her tender conscience was troubled that she had not said good-bye to her. (speak)
ex.4
1. Had he been dreaming, he wondered a moment later, or had that strange smile indeed curved her lips, that marvellous light indeed flowed from her eyes? (he/dream)
2. And how had he been thinking about her? (how/he/think)
3. Where had she been going to that night? (where/she/go)
4. Had not they all been breaking their loving, anxious hearts about Bonny Laddie, and lo! (they all/not/break)
5. Towards what abyss had he been traveling ever since? (towards what abyss/he/travel)
6. Then why had she been thinking about it again? (why/she/think)
7. Had he been thinking that Philip had tortured him? (he/think)
8. Had he too been looking for the explanation-the explanation that Henry feared? (he/too/look)
9. What had she been plotting that made her look so scared at his appearance? (what/she/plot)
10. Had they been lecturing her into these conjugal proprieties? (they/lecture)
11. Had I been walking in my sleep? (I/walk)
12. Had the foreman of the Bar T been listening and heard all? (the foreman of the Bar T/listen)
13. Had he been living in a dream? (he/live)
14. How long had he been carrying it about with him? (how long/he/carry)
15. Had she been reading Shirley, and would she have liked him to play Louis Moore? (she/read)
16. Had she a father and mother who loved her, and perhaps brothers and sisters-and how long had she been sleeping so quietly in the arms of the great rock? (how long/she/sleep)
17. Had he been dreaming all the afternoon? (he/dream)
18. Had he been talking too much with Miss Ardle or the coy Miss Penny? (he/talk)
19. Had they not been talking about the monk and his gesture of warning? (they/not/talk)
20. Had they been cutting meridians the wrong way? (they/cut)
ex.E
1. B
2. A
3. A
4. B
5. B
6. A
ex.F
1. had
2. been
3. had
4. √
5. had
6. √
7. making
8. √
9. been
10. yet
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