My family has bought some land in southern France recently. They are building a summer house there at the moment.

Andy and Mary are going to go to a concert tomorrow night. They have looked (been looking) forward to it the whole week.

Jonathon watches the news on TV every day and it helps (is helping) him with his English.

My car broke down when I was driving home from work. I would have fixed it if I had known what was wrong. But I didn’t so had to take it to the garage.

When he founded Microsoft, Bill Gates was only 20 years old. He had already written his first computer programme six years earlier.

An accident happened near my house last night. A car (had) hit a young man. He was riding his bike when someone in front of him suddenly opened a car door. Many people saw the accident. The police interrogated them last night.

Mrs Smith said that one day she was going to retire from teaching. She said that she was going to spend her new free time learning about computers.

I didn't sleep at all last night. Someone listened to music all night.

I saw a film a week ago, but I didn't enjoy it very much because I had already read the book. If I hadn't read the book I probably would have enjoyed the film more.

The judge sentenced the man to eight years in prison because he had robbed a bank.

They had been standing in the queue for over an hour when the manager told them that there were no more tickets.

Alan was in the car accident yesterday. The other driver lost  control of his car because he had fallen asleep.

She hasn't seen her father since he started to work in Marseille two years ago.

I was sleeping when the fire broke out.

Linda phoned and explained that she was not going to come to the party the next day because she was still sick.

I have just seen the film “The Da Vinci Code”. – Have you seen it too? – No, I haven't  but I read the book.

My sister flies home from London today. Her flight will arrive (arrives) in an hour so I will have to leave for the airport right now to get there in time.

Unless he sells more he won’t get much money.

While he was waiting for the bus there was a robbery at the bank. After the robbers had gone  away the police came but they couldn't catch them.

I used to ski when I was at the university but I broke a leg five years ago and since then I haven't skied any more.