Put the verbs in brackets into the correct tense Simple Past/Past Perfect. 

He (give)_______________ me back the book, (thank)_______________ me for lending it to him and (say)_______________ that he (enjoy)_______________ it very much; 2) but I (know)_______________ that he (not read) _______________it because most of the pages (be)_______________ still uncut. 

3) When he (see)_______________ his wife off at the station, he (return)_______________ home as he (not have)_______________ to be at the airport till 9.30. 4) He (not have)_______________ to pack, for his wife already (do)_______________ that for him and his case (be)_______________ ready in the hall. 5) He (not have) _______________to check the doors  and windows either, for his wife always (do)_______________ that before she (leave)_______________ the house. 6) All he (have)_______________ to do (be)_______________ to decide whether or not to take his overcoat with him. 7) In the end he (decide)_______________ not to. 8) At 8.30 he (pick)_______________ up his case, (go)_______________ out of the house and (slam)_______________ the door behind him. 9) Then he (feel)_______________ in his pockets for the key, for his wife (remind) _______________him to double‑lock the front door. 10) When he (search)_______________ all his pockets and (find)_______________ no key he (remember)_______________ where it (be)_______________. 11) He (leave)_______________ it in his overcoat pocket. 12) Then he (remember)_______________ something else; 13) his passport and tickets (be)_______________ in his overcoat pocket as well.

14) I (arrive) _______________in England in the middle of July. 15) I (be told)_______________ that England (be)_______________ shrouded in fog all year round, so I (be)_______________ quite surprised to find that it was merely raining. 16) I (ask)_______________ another passenger, an Englishman, about the fog and he (say)_______________ that there (not be)_______________ any since the previous February. 17) If I (want)_______________ fog, he said, I (come)_______________ at quite the wrong time. 18) However, he (tell) _______________me that I could buy tinned fog at a shop in Shaftesbury Avenue. 19) He (admit) _______________that he never (buy) _______________fog there himself but (assure) _______________me that they (sell) _______________good quality fog and that it (not be) _______________expensive. 

20) When the old lady (return) _______________to her flat she (see) _______________at once that burglars (break) _______________in during her absence, because the front door (be) _______________open and everything in the flat (be) _______________upside down. 21) The burglars themselves  (be) _______________no longer there, but they probably only just (leave)_______________ because a cigarette was still burning on an ornamental table. 22) Probably they (hear) _______________the lift coming up and (run) _______________down the fire escape. 23) They (help) _______________themselves to her whisky too but there (be) _______________a little left, so she (pour) _______________herself out a drink. 24) She (wonder) _______________if they (find) _______________her jewellery and rather (hope) _______________ that they had. 25) The jewellery (be given)_______________ her by her husband, who (die)_______________ some years before. 26) Since his death she (not have) _______________the heart to wear it, yet she (not like)_______________ to sell it. 27) Now it (seem)_______________ the fate (take)_______________ the matter out of her hands; and certainly the insurance money would come in handy.