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Intermediate level: Past Tenses
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Intermediate level: Past Tenses
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1. I was going to a supermarket when the fire_______out.
2. He_______the Nobel Prize in literature in 1954.
3. David Beckham_______for Manchester United from 1993 to 2003.
4. The boy_______to music when the door bell rang.
5. Jill wiped the table after supper, took a shower and_______to bed.
6. We were strolling in the park when suddenly it_______.
7. Bill_______football at 10 o'clock yesterday.
8. Carol was eating a banana while Sandy_______his home task.
9. I was watching TV while the kids_______in the garden.
10. I was reading a book while the children_______.
11. We_______to Australia last year.
12. The first Derby_______place in May 1780.
13. My cat_______with a toy when I called it.
14. I put my coat on and_______a look in the mirror.
15. I_______the guitar at 9 o'clock yesterday.
16. I was trying to concentrate when suddenly my girlfriend_______me a fright.
17. She was writing a letter while her husband_______.
18. Marian_______Mary two years ago.
19. Einstein_______a paper on the general theory of relativity in 1916.
20. I woke up at 7 a.m., ironed my clothes and_______out.
21. Lincoln_______the 16th President of the United States in 1860.
22. Henry_______to his cousin while his wife was reading a newspaper.
23. "The Romans_______to Britain in 54 BC."
24. Beethoven_______his first piece of music when he was 12.
25. We went to Hyde Park and then we_______in a restaurant.

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