Siobhán has had a strange morning.

Fill in the gaps in her story with the correct past tense.

• I — select —woke upwas waking uphad woken uphad been waking up at 6am this morning because there was an odd noise.

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• For some reason, my neighbour, Bill, — select —mowedwas mowinghad mownhad been mowing the lawn!

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• I — select —wentwas goinghad gonehad been going outside to ask him to stop,

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• but when I started talking to him, it was like he — select —couldn’thadn’t been able tocan'tdoesn't hear me.

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• I realised he — select —sleepwalkedwas sleepwalkinghad sleepwalkedhad been sleepwalking !

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• After a while, his wife — select —camewas comingcomehad been coming outside to see what was happening.

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• She explained that this wasn’t the first time. He — select —sleepwalkedwas sleepwalkinghad sleepwalkedhad been sleepwalking last week and made a pizza from scratch!

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• I — select —decidedwas decidinghad decidedhad been deciding to let his wife solve the problem and went back to bed.

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• I woke up three hours later and realised that I — select —missedwas missinghad missedhad been missing my train to work!

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• My boss was very angry when I arrived at the office late. She — select —waitedis waitinghas waitedhad been waiting for me for twenty minutes.

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