Ex. 1 Comment on the use of tenses in the following sentences

1. When Arni turned on the television, the weatherman was giving the weekend forecast for Europe. 2. Diana and I were sitting in the library on Sunday morning, reading the newspapers. Or rather, she was reading, I was merely glancing through them. 3. To make conversation I asked him what he was doing at Oxford. 4. The noise was caused by a dog, which was chasing a cat through the garden. 5. And I just knew it was my mother's face I was seeing in my mind. 6. As usual, he was being selfish, thinking only about himself. 7. When she came back to the office, the secretary was still riffling through some papers. 8. She was being perfectly friendly again. 9. Nora thought she was being noisy. 10. When I entered a Pizza Hut, all around me people were eating pizzas the size of bus wheels. The programmer had done the work by four o'clock. 11. The policeman asked if there had been any witnesses. 12. By the time we got to the shopping centre it had closed. 13. The students had written the test and were now checking them up. 14. Mike phoned Rosie, but she hadn't returned home yet. 15. She complained that she was penniless as she had spent all her money. 16. It turned out that Dick was ill and he had been ill for a fortnight. 17. We learnt that they had been close friends for many years. 18. Hardly had I turned on the television, when I heard shocking news. 19. No sooner had he opened the door than the children rushed to meet him. 20. Scarcely had the inspector opened the envelope when he understood everything. 21. She sat staring at the page she had written last night in New York. 22. And for the first time in more than twenty years she had found herself living in the city where she had been born. 23. They walked toward the house. It had been months since they had been there. They felt comforted by the charm of the house. It had always been a peaceful place. 24. Ketti looked at Sue and knew that she had been weeping. 25. I had been hearing and reading about the Vatican for so long that I was genuinely keen to see it. 26. I hadn’t gone a hundred yards from the corner when I noticed there was a car behind me. 27. I realized before you had been here a fortnight that you never were cut for this life. 28. He didn’t hate her, he scarcely seemed aware of her presence. 29. She would sit for hours before the window waiting for her husband. It used to be a wonderful time!