Usage examples 16 English tenses

• Will they have arrived by six o'clock?

• Will anyone be bringing friends to the party?

• Do you often eat vegetables?

• Jack had been trying to open the door for an hour before he found a key.

• Had they been living there for a year before they moved out?

• I work out four times a week.

• I had heard about the accident before I read the article.

• At that point I will have been living in San Francisco for a year.

• Jack has bought a new apartment recently.

• Is Anna going to finish her lunch?

• What is Jenny doing here?

• Where have you been all my life?

• Mary saw this film last week.

• By December Jessica will have been dancing professionally for twenty years.

• How long will your father have been working there when he retires?

• My mother doesn't live in Boston.

• They didn't call me because they were busy.

• What were you doing when Nick came back?

• The concert had already started when they arrived.

• Jack can't come, he is eating.

• Will you answer the phone?

• Lou will not have been living with her parents for nine months tomorrow.

• It is hot in here, I will open the window.

• When did you buy this car?

• Robert will have resigned by March.

• We will see how it goes.

• Paul will be swimming in the sea this time tomorrow.

• Anna will not have finished the project by next week.

• Jack is not going to help us, he is too selfish.

• I have been waiting for Mary since noon.

• Mark wasn't playing, he was just watching the game.

• I went to Seattle two years ago.

• Have you ever seen northern lights?

• We are travelling together at the moment.

• Had the store already closed when you came?

• Linda hasn't been singing for a long time.

• I think it won't rain.

• The plane leaves at six pm.

• I will be missing the mountains when I go home.

• We had not been waiting long before the taxi arrived.

• Alice was studying when I went to bed.

• It had been raining so hard that the flood began.

• I am not crying, everything is okay.

• It was raining while I was walking my dog.

• I have not submitted the report yet.

• How long have you been living here?

• We had not tried Thai cuisine before we went to Thailand last month.

• Dad will not be working when you arrive.