Exam Practice: Past Tenses

My hands (be) dirty because I’d been repairing my bike.

Matt (phone) when we (have) dinner.

Tom was tired when he got home. He (work) hard all day.

What (__) you (do) at 10 o’clock last night?

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (write) more than 600 pieces of music.

I’ve started drinking coffee recently. I never (use to) like it before.

We were good friends. We (know) each other for years.

I (look) for the way out of the centre but couldn’t find it.

A few years ago Lisa cut her hair really short. I was surprised because she (__) always (have) long hair.

This building is now a furniture shop. It (use to) be a cinema.

I (see) you in the park yesterday. You (sit) on the grass and (read) a book.

(__) you (use to) eat a lot of sweets when you were a child?

David (use to) spend a lot of money on clothes. These days he can’t afford it.

Karen (not come) to the cinema with us. She’d already seen the movie.

When (__) you last (eat) lobsters?

It wasn’t raining when we went out. But it (rain), so the ground was wet.

(__) you (watch) a new TV program yesterday?

When we got home last night, we found that somebody (break) into the flat.

This time last year I (live) in Hong Kong.

I (not use to) like him, but now I realise he’s a very nice person.

The house (be) dirty. They hadn’t cleaned it for weeks.

We (play) tennis for about half an hour when it started to rain heavily.

I work in a travel agency now. Before that I (work) in a department store.

The police (stop) me on my way home last night.

I wasn’t sure who she was. I (see) her before, but I couldn’t remember where.