1. He had been working as a doctor there for seven years by that time. 2. Have you been to the doctor? 3. A doctor had been checking his patient's blood pressure for three minutes when she came. 4. Do you feel pain anywhere? 5. If you are not any better in two days, keep in bed and send for the doctor. 6. My sister had been working at the hospital for six month before she left. 7. I had been taking that medicine a tablespoonful three times a day by the end of January.

2. Make the following sentences negative:

1. We knew that he had been working as an oculist for a long time. 2. My granny said that she had been taking some pills and drops all the morning. 3. The girl answered that she had been taking some tablets all the week. 4. The doctor noticed that she had been behaving strangely. 5. My brother said that he had been gargling his throat all the morning. 6. Jane replied that she had only been at the hospital for three days. 7. The dentist said that he had

been pulling out a wisdom tooth. 8. The boy explained that he had been taking that medicine from a headache for a long time.

3. Make the following sentences interrogative:

1. I had been waiting for a physician for half an hour when you came. 2. I had been taking my temperature for ten minutes when the ambulance car arrived. 3. He had been working in the laboratory for three years when he was dismissed. 4. He had been having a stomach-ache for two days before he was operated upon for appendicitis.

4. Choose the correct form of the verb:

1. I (had been waiting, waited) for those pills and drops for two hours before they were ready. 2. They (had been waiting, have waited) for an ambulance car for ten minutes before it arrived. 3. My son (had been taking, has taken) some medicine from cold before breakfast. 4. Pete (had been looking for, has been looking for) a chemist's for a long time before he saw a building. 5. A surgeon felt tired because he (had been working, worked) hard all day. 6. A chemist (had been making, made) a medicine for an hour before it was ready. 7. His father (had been working, worked) at this hospital for 25 years before he retired.

5. Refer the following sentences to the Past:

1. She has been waiting for a doctor for more than an hour.

2. He has been working as a doctor for seven years.

3. The doctor has been examining the patients for an hour.

4. She has been working as a medical nurse since 1985.

5. You have been cleaning your teeth since childhood.

6. The doctor has been taking out a tooth for two minutes.

1. Translate into Ukrainian:

1. You had been waiting for a dentist for twenty minu­tes by that time. 2. A dentist had been taking out the nerve for two minutes when a medical nurse came. 3. We have been taking our temperature for ten minutes when our mother came. 4. He said he had been taking that medi­cine for a week. 5. He wrote that he had been studying at the medical institute since 1991. 6. I said that I had been staying in bed all day.

7. Answer the following questions according to the model:

Model: How long had she been following the diet before she got better?

— She had been following the diet for sev­eral days before she got better.

1. How long had she been preparing a cosulting room before the patients appeared? 2. How long had she been making those powders when I entered the chemist's? 3. How long had not the doctor been consulting you before you met him again? 4. How long had Mary been acting like a regular doctor since her brother got ill? 5. How long had you been taking the medicine before the doctor came? 6. How long you been having a high temperature before it changed for better?