I didn`t see Linda last month because she _________around Europe at that time.

While I _________ the dishes last night, I dropped a plate and broke it.

When I was young, I ________ that people over forty were very old. Now that I am forty myself I don`t think so.

Sam says he didn`t enjoy the program because the TV set ________ properly.

The trouble started when Mrs. Leslie Cady ___________ control of her car on a narrow mountain road.

In 1912 the Titanic _________ an iceberg on its first trip across the Atlantic, and it sank four hours later.

I handed Betsy today`s newspaper, but she didn`t want it. She __________ it during her lunch.

The Browns _________ in a large house when their children were at home, but they moved to a small three-room apartment after the children grew up and left home.

He didn`t see me as he was reading when I _______ into the room.

Before Adam got married, he __________ hiking to the mountains every summer. Now he goes to the seaside with his wife.

He was taken to the police station because he ______ into a car in front of him.

We _____ TV for ten minutes when the electricity went off.

I found the way to her house quite easily because Nora _____ it to me very well.

The two boys came into the house. One had a black eye and the other a cut lip. They _________ .