Exercise 5. Insert The Past Indefinite or Past Perfect.

1. Gemma _____ (to sleep) badly the last few nights, and there were dark shadows under her eyes. (Voynich)

2. When he returned to his hotel he found a message that someone _____ (to telephone) in his absence. (Hilton)

3. The Gadfly _____ (to pause) a moment, glancing furtively at Gemma; then he _____ (to go on). (Voynich)

4. They _____ (to pass) the door of their inn, and _____ (to walk) a little way down the village, before they _____ (to recollect) the precise spot in which it stood. (Dickens)

5. The moon _____ (not to rise).There was nothing to dispel the dark of the night. (Abrahams)

6. Hardly she _____ (to sit down) when a very stout gentleman (to flop) into the chair opposite hers. (Mansfield)

7. They did not speak to him again, until he _____ (to eat). (Greene)

8. Now the madman on the stairs spoke again and his mood suddenly _____ (to change); he seemed quietly merry. (Priestley)

9. When Martini _____ (to enter) the room, the Gadfly turned his head round quickly. (Voynich)

10. No sooner he _____ (to take) a drink himself, than Mrs. Fettle _____ (to look) in. (Lessing)

11. Those grey hairs startled me. I _____ (not to know) they were there. (Cain)

12. Gemma _____ (to pull away) her hand and ______ (to run) into the house. When the door _____ (to close) behind her he ______ (to stoop) and _____ (to pick up) the spray of cypress which _____ (to fall) from her breast. (Voynich)

13. The fire _____ (to be) dead, the moon _____ (to go) down, and the window _____ (to be) grey before I went to sleep. (Cain)

14. I told him everything. He _____ (to stand) and _____ (to listen), like a figure cut in stone, till I _____ (to finish). (Voynich)

15. When I _____ (to reach) Viste Grande towards dusk I found two notes awaiting me. (Hilton)

16. He hardly ______ (to light) another cigarette when the general _____ (to come) into the courtyard. (Maugham)

17. Gemma went slowly down the stairs, Martini following in silence. She _____ (to grow) to look ten years older in these few days, and the gray streak across her hair _____ (to widen) into a broad band. (Voynich)

18. Presently the sounds of voices and footsteps approaching along the terrace _____ (to rouse) her from the dreamy state into which she _____ (to fall). (Voynich)

19. She was a woman of nearly fifty who obviously _____ (to be) pretty once. (B. Shaw)

20. They crouched down behind the group of statuary and _____ (to wait) till the watchman _____ (to pass). (Voynich)

21. Moreover, to him [the doctor] the affair was commonplace; it was just a hysterical woman who _____ (to quarrel) with her lover and _____ (to take) poison. (Maugham)

22. The moon ______ (not to rise) yet. I sat in the sultry dark, making patterns with the end of my cigarette and listening, listening. (Hansford Johnson)

23. One night there Hew over the city a little Swallow. His friends _____ (to go) away to Egypt six weeks before, but he _____ (to stay) behind. (Wilde)

24. By this time Collard's offer _____ (to become) a thing of nightmare. (Hansford Johnson)

25. When Alison _____ (to disappear) the first strains of the orchestra came stealing out to me from inside the hall. (Cronin)

26. He just _____ (to leave) the hall when a stranger _____ (to enter). (Leacock)

27. On glancing at the address, he _____ (to observe) that it _____ (to contain) no name. The stranger _____ (not to go) far, so he made after him to ask it. (Dickens)