past perfect & Past perfect continuous 2

The children _____ to bed when their mother came from work.

• had already gone

• had been going

If I ______ absent yesterday, I would have met him.

• hadn't been

• hadn't been being

Sarah was exhausted. She ______ the dishes for more than three hours.

• had washed

• had been washing

I was very tired when I arrived home. I _____ hard all day.

• had worked

• had been working

When I arrived at the party, Tom wasn’t there. He ______ home.

• had gone

• had been going

When I arrived at the station, the train _______.

• had been leaving

• had left

He ______ for 15 minutes when he understood he had lost his swimsuit.

• had been swimming

• had swum

She _______ the letter away when she noticed it was not important.

• had thrown

• had been throwing

James told me you ______ the old vicarage two years before your son’s birth.

• had been buying

• had bought

When we got home last night, we found that somebody _____ into the flat.

• had broken

• had been breaking