At Christmas people spend their time with families, everybody eat special food and drink a lot.

Where are the children? They are playing in the school garden. They aregoing to get home from school just at about four.

He was working when I came in, and he obviously has been working for a long time, because he was very tired.

When I first have come to this house, it was a very quiet area. But since then a new housing estate has been built and it became very noisy.

This bicycle has been being in our family for fourteen years. My father had been using it for the first five years, my brother had been riding it for the next five, and I have had it for the last four.

When I bought my new house I asked for a telephone. The Post office told me to wait, but I have been waiting for a year now and my phone still haven't came.

George had been collecting matchboxes ever since he left school. Now he has collected so many that he doesn't know where to put them.