Ex.8. Open the brackets. Pay attention to the use of the Past Simple and the Past Perfect.
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Ex.7. Read an extract about Richard Branson's career and complete the sentences. Use the Past Perfect.
Sir Richard Branson (born 18 July 1950) is an English business magnate, best known for his Virgin Group of more than 400 companies.
His first business venture was a magazine called Student at the age of 16. In 1970, he set up an audio-record mail-order business. In 1972, he opened a chain of record stores, Virgin Records, later known as Virgin Megastores. Branson's Virgin brand grew rapidly during the 1980s, as he set up Virgin Atlantic Airways and expanded the Virgin Records music label.
Branson is the 4th richest citizen of the United Kingdom, according to the Forbes 2011 list of billionaires, with an estimated net worth of US $4.2 billion.
1. Before he set up an audio-record mail-order company, he ________ .
2. Before he opened a chain of record stores, he _______.
3. Before his brand Virgin grew up rapidly, _______.
4. Before he set up Virgin Atlantic Airways, _______.
1. He already _______(go) by the time I _______(come) to the party.
2. Mother _______(cook) dinner by the time he______ (come).
3. When I _______(arrive) home, I realized that I _______(lose) the key.
4. The shop _______(close) by the time I _______(get ) there.
5. The scientists _______(carry) out many experiments before they ________ (achieve) satisfactory results.
6. When I _______(arrive), he was staying in the same hotel where we first _______(meet).
7. By the end of the last year he _______ (finish) research.
8. He told me that he _______(not see) much of her since she ______(move ) to another town.
9. When I _______(enter), he already _______(come) and was sitting near the fireplace looking through a newspaper.
10. She said that they _______(meet) in 1996 for the first time.