Past Perfect Simple Gap-Fill

After we ... (buy) a newspaper, we had a coffee.

After we had played tennis, we ... (go) home.

When my cousin phoned, I ... (go) to sleep.

By the time we ... (arrive) at the match, Messi had scored two goals.

• Before I knew it, she ... (run) out the door.

I washed the floor when the painter ... (go).

1. By the time Doris got to the party, everyone ... (leave).

1. ... I'd used the phone, I paid the bill.

• After

• Before

• By the time

1. We'd just gotten home, ... we heard the blast outside.

• after

• before

• when

We'd finished all the water ... we were halfway up the mountain.

• after

• before

• by the time