1.The car was dirty. They haven't washed her for several weeks.

2. By the time he called me, I had already solved my problem.

3. When we arrived at the bus stop, the bus had already left.

4. By the time we were ready, the rain had already stopped.

1)Jill was afraid she had _forgotten_ her key at home, but she found it in her handbag.

2)Dad wasn't at home when I came back. He had _gone_ out twenty minutes before.

3)I wasn't hungry because I had _just had_ brekfast.

4)Peter saw an urgent message on his table. Somebody had _left_ it the day before.

5)I apologized I _hadn't phoned_ her.

6)He told me that he had _come back_ a fortnight before.

7)I knew him at once though I had _met_ him many years befor.

8)We spent the night in Klin, a town we _had often heard of_ but _had never seen_

9)They couldn’t believe he _gave up_ his job in the bank. He _had made_ a good living there.

10)Mr. Jackson said that he had _already bought_ everything for lunch.

11)Alice asked her brother where he had _arranged_to meet his friends.

12)We had no car at that time because we had _sold_ our old one.

13)They _had finished_ painting the ceiling by two o’clock.