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Past Perfect Simple

 The patient had woken up before the doctor got in the room.
El paciencte se habia despertado antes de que el doctor entre a la
habitación.

 Sam came back to the university because he had forgotten his laptop.
Sam volvió a la Universidad porque el habia olvidado su laptop.

 She stayed up all night because she had received patients of the crash
accident all night long.
Ella estuvo despierta toda la noche porque habia recibido un paciente de un
accidente toda la larga noche

 My brother ate all the cake that our mum had made.
Mi hermano comió toda la torta que nuestra madre había hecho

 He had not been to Miami before 1997.


El no habia estado en Miami antes de 1997

 She had studied Italian before she moved to Italy


Ella habia estudiado italiano antes de mudarse a italia

 Ryan stayed up all night because she had received bad news

 They hadn’t understand the movie because they hadn’t read the comic.

 I had watched the movie before I read the book 

 I had fallen asleep when the clock rang at 11 PM

 The train had just left when I arrived at the station.


Past perfect continuous

 He had been working hard all week


 The kinesiologist had been assessing the patients
 He stated that he had not been feeling well for the past five weeks.
 I had been working all day, so I didn't want to go out.

Past continuous

 The patient was suffering for low back pain

 He was taking photos of his dog when the camera broke. 

 They were recruiting patients for the clinical trial

 She was talking to him while her son was doing his homework.

 At 6 o'clock, I was eating dinner.

 The sun was shining every day that summer.

 They were vaccinating elderly people

 They were waiting for the bus when the accident happened.

 The nurse was measuring the patient ́s blood pressure

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