Past simple, past continuous, past perfect

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Exercise 2: Past Simple, Past Continuous, Past Perfect

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Exercise 2: Past Simple, Past Continuous, Past Perfect

Choose the most suitable answer for each gap below. Pay attention to context, time relationships, and correct verb tense usage.

1
I was very late. When I arrived, the conference ____.
2
When he heard the police knocking on the door, he ____ under the bed.
3
The police arrested him because he ____ a gun.
4
When they arrived at the police station, he said that he ____ anything wrong.
5
When he said that he loved me, I knew that he ____.
6
I looked at him and I knew he ____ in a fight, because he had a black eye.
7
He pulled out a gun and everybody ____ away.
8
When I was a child, we ____ anywhere at weekends; it was boring.
9
When he retired he ____ in the company for more than 50 years.
10
I ____ to the road and we crashed.