Pick the best answer to complete the blank/s in good sensible English. Our old dog ... ... barking at the postman: ... ... hear him do it, even when we were at the other end of the street on our way to school.
  • ... used to like ... / ... we would ...
  • ... was in the habit of ... / ... quite often we would ...
  • ... enjoyed ... / ... people ...
  • ... seemed to have fun ... / ... once in a while, I ...
Pick the best answer to complete the blank/s in good sensible English. When we lived in Scotland I ... ... long country walks (when the weather was good enough!).
  • ... sometimes did ...
  • ... often went ...
  • ... often used to go for ...
  • ...usually went for ...
Pick the best answer to complete the blank/s in good sensible English. ... ... she ... ... five nights a week at the Palais.
  • At the age of 15 ... / ... danced ...
  • By the time she turned 15 ... / ... had begun dancing ...
  • On her 15th birthday ... / ... would be dancing ...
  • As a 15-year-old ... / ... used to dance ...
Pick the best answer to complete the blank/s in good sensible English. ... ... he ... ... relatively modern and powerful computers.
  • During the 1960s ... / ... built ...
  • Back in the 1960s ... / ... was already building ...
  • In the 1960s ... / ... had built ...
  • Over the 1960s ... / ... used to build ...
Pick the best answer to complete the blank/s in good sensible English. ... ... my uncle ... ... home from the rugby with a kit-bag half full of mud.
  • Each week ... / ... came ...
  • Week after week ... / ... would arrive ...
  • Weekly ... / ... got home ...
  • Every week ... / ... turned up (on the doorstep) ...
Pick the best answer to complete the blank/s in good sensible English. Before she put the light out, mother ... ... .
  • ... always read to us a story.
  • ... would always read to us a story.
  • ... would always read us a story.
  • ... would always use to read us a story.
Pick the best answer to complete the blank/s in good sensible English. On the 'home front' during the Napoleonic Wars, farmers with a sense for the new technology ... ... run several of their indoor operations at once, using a 'barn engine': a steam engine that drove other machinery using a system of belts, and which ... ... money.
  • ... could already ... / ... soon proved itself by saving ...
  • ... became able to ... / ... saved them ...
  • ... were able to ... / ... saved ...
  • ... managed to ... / ... began saving them ...
Pick the best answer to complete the blank/s in good sensible English. Each Christmas we ... ... my grandparents'.
  • ... went staying to ...
  • ... went to stay at ...
  • ... went and stayed with ...
  • ... went for to stay at ...
Pick the best answer to complete the blank/s in good sensible English. ... ... there ... ... another family disaster.
  • Each few years ... / ... was ...
  • Every so often ... / ... seemed to be ...
  • Ever and again ... / ... would come ...
  • Now and then ... / ... happened
Pick the best answer to complete the blank/s in good sensible English. We always used to beg Grandpop to get his model steam railway going in the garden; and ... ... persuade him to do it.
  • ... on the odd occasion, we actually managed to ...
  • ... once in a blue moon, he really ...
  • ... a handful of times, we almost ...
  • ... every so often, we succeeded to...
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