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8. At the time I met him, he (write) a book for some time.

9. He (live) in Coimbatore for twenty years when he
had an accident.

10. He (repair) the mobile phone for an hour when
you arrived.

11. He was tired because he (watch) television all night.

12. Radha didn’t want to move. She (live) in Kolkata all
her life.

13. Gavaskar was a wonderful cricketer. He (play) ever
since he was a teenager.

14. They (stay) with us since July of that year.

15. We (paint) our house for two weeks, but we were still
a long way off from finishing.

Note

Since and for are used with the perfect continuous tenses.
Since is used to talk about the point of time at which an action began. (The action
continues till the moment of speaking.)
For is used to talk about the duration of an action. For example,
• She has been practising her dance moves since 9 this morning. She has
a concert tomorrow.
• She has been practising her dance moves for three hours now. She has
a concert tomorrow.
Used to is used to talk about something that happened often in the past but does not
happen anymore. For example,
• Mrs Ganguly used to be our English teacher.
• Seema used to play in the state table tennis team.

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