Unit 16 Past perfect continuous (I had been doing)

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question		réponse
You can say that something had been happening for a period of time before something else happened: commencer à apprendre		Our game of tennis was interrupted. We’d been playing for about half an hour when it started to rain very heavily. Ken gave up smoking two years ago. He’d been smoking for 30 years.
I hope the bus comes soon. I’ve been waiting for 20 minutes. (before now) commencer à apprendre		At last the bus came. I’d been waiting for 20 minutes. (before the bus came)
He’s out of breath. He has been running. commencer à apprendre		He was out of breath. He had been running.
It wasn’t raining when we went out. The sun was shining. commencer à apprendre		But it had been raining, so the ground was wet.
Ann was sitting in an armchair watching television. commencer à apprendre		She was tired because she’d been working very hard.

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