Unit 16 Past perfect continuous (I had been doing)

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You can say that something had been happening for a period of time before something else happened: start learning		Our game of tennis was interrupted. We’d been playing for about half an hour when it started to rain very heavily. Ken gave up smoking two years ago. He’d been smoking for 30 years.
I hope the bus comes soon. I’ve been waiting for 20 minutes. (before now) start learning		At last the bus came. I’d been waiting for 20 minutes. (before the bus came)
He’s out of breath. He has been running. start learning		He was out of breath. He had been running.
It wasn’t raining when we went out. The sun was shining. start learning		But it had been raining, so the ground was wet.
Ann was sitting in an armchair watching television. start learning		She was tired because she’d been working very hard.

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