Usage Examples 16 English tenses

• We had not been waiting long before the taxi arrived. -
• Alice was studying when I went to bed. -
• Dad will not be working when you arrive. -
• The concert had already started when they arrived. -
• By December Jessica will have been dancing professionally for twenty years. -
• Anna will not have finished the project by next week. -
• I have not submitted the report yet. -
• Jack had been trying to open the door for an hour before he found a key. -
• I have been waiting for Mary since noon. -
• They didn't call me because they were busy. -
• What were you doing when Nick came back? -
• Linda hasn't been singing for a long time. -
• Paul will be swimming in the sea this time tomorrow. -
• At that point I will have been living in San Francisco for a year. -
• It is hot in here, I will open the window. -
• When did you buy this car? -
• We are travelling together at the moment. -
• Lou will not have been living with her parents for nine months tomorrow. -
• Where have you been all my life? -
• I am not crying, everything is okay. -