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2) Dad wasn't at home when I came back. He had gone out twenty minutes before.
3) I wasn't hungry because I had just had breakfast.
4) Peter saw an urgent message on his table. Somebody had left it the day before.
5) I apologized I had not phoned her earlier.
6) He told me that he had come back a fortnight before.
7) I knew him at once though I had met him many years before.
8) We spent the night in Klin, a town we had often heard of but had never seen.
9) They could (not(?)) believe he had given up his job in the bank.
10) Mr. Jackson said that he had already bought everything for lunch.