Choose the correct answer.

1. How long _____________ before Val finally turned up?

2. You _____________ be so good at backgammon, did you?

3. Could you tell me, sir, what you _____________ in the park at three in the morning?

4. I was angry when you saw me because I _____________ with my sister.

5. The Black Pirate _____________ over a million copies already this year.

6. Don't throw the paper away because I _____________ it yet.

7. By the time we arrived, the film _____________ .

8. We had to walk home in the end because Jimmy _____________ his car keys.

9. It took Edward a long time to _____________ living in Canada.

10. I'd love to have lived in the old days, when people _____________ to market by horse and carriage.

11. I much preferred it when we _____________ to Wales every summer on holiday.

12. Your teacher called me today and said that you _____________ in the playground again.