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- I had hardly got to the office ______ my wife phoned me to go back home at once.
- I had just got up and was about to cook my breakfast ___the telephone rang loudly, but it hung up __I could answer it .
- I had just started back for the house to change my clothes _____I heard my name called.
- I had no one ___ me, for I could deal with it all by myself.
- I’ll try it again.Never in my life _____ such a particular difficulty.
- It is the second time that I ____ in Shanghai. What great changes! It’s years since I ____ here last time.
- It was not until the entrance exams were in sight that that I had so many books to cover and so many exercises to finish.
- It was the first time ______ I ______ here.
- It’s time that I my hair cut. It’s the fifth time that I to the barber’s shop.
- John passed the examination though he had only spent _______ on the subject as others had done.