1. By the end of the year she had learned how to cook.

2. I had finished the project by the beginning of that week.

3. I had come to their house before 5 o‘clock.
4. I had translated the text by (that) Wednesday.
5. My parents were pleased to hear that I had passed all the exams that year.

6. I had gone been to the library twice before mom made dinner.
7. I had painted snowmen three times before my sister made me colour them.
8. I had dinner twice before everyone was seated at the table.
9. I had done the exercises twice before the teacher explained the homework.
10. I had read the text three times before everyone read it.

11. When Sally arrived at the party, her friends had been there for half an hour.
12. When you arrived at work, everyone had already been there for one hour.
13. When I answered the topic, half of the lesson had passed.
14. When I watched the movie, the night had come.
15. When I ran 2 km, 25 minutes had passed.

16. He wanted to wish me happy birthday, but I had already left for New York.
17. I wanted to give a book to a friend, but they had already had the book in their collection.
18. The sister wanted to go to their brother, but he had already left.
19. My brother should have gone to the hospital, but it had already been too late.
20. Mom wanted to buy a cake, but the bakery had already been closed.

21. After the exams had finished, they had a party.

22. When we‘d done the washing-up, we watched TV.
23. Mum phoned after she‘d heard the news.
24. The party couldn‘t start before Kate had arrived.
25. We hadn‘t tried a house swap until that summer.

26. She fell asleep after I had left her.

27. When She entered the room as soon as she had heard the news.
28. I was cooking dinner when he had knocked on the door. He had knocked on the door before I
started cooking dinner.
29. She has never been to London like she had gone last month.
30. Her new book was amazing, because she had worked on it since last year.