The Past Perfect (D) – key
When Graham went 1 to Edinburgh last summer for the Fringe Festival he had not been 2 there for well over five years. He arrived 3 the evening before the festival began and spent 4 a happy hour walking round remembering the good times he had had 5 there as a young man.
As he was strolling along Princes Street he suddenly caught sight of 6 a familiar face – it was Chris. The man he had shared 7 a flat with when they were both students, and whose address Graham had lost 8 after leaving his job at such short notice that dreadful July. He could tell he had not seen 9 him, so Graham called 10 his name and Chris looked up 11 at once. As Chris turned 12 towards him in surprise that famous smile of his lit up 13 his face, and stepping off the pavement he ran 14 towards Graham, dodging the traffic in that crazy way of his as he did 15 so.
He had always been 16 a bit of a clown, the one who had taken 17 the most outrageous risks – and he had often teased 18 the others for their caution and lack of daring. "You only live once" his famous catchphrase had always been 19. So strange, then that it had been Chris who had suddenly applied for 20 that post as a bank manager in a sleepy village in the Borders. Not for the first time, Graham wondered 21 what had actually lain 22 behind that strange move. Had Chris tired 23 so quickly of city life? Or had his father’s death had 24 anything to do with it? Or had there perhaps been 25 a woman involved somehow? Maybe Graham would find out over a pint in their favourite haunt, the Highlander?
Notice in particular the placing of adverbs in the past perfect on nos 16, 18, 19, 20, 22 and 25.
Notice too the interrogative form in 23, 24 and 25.
Vocabulary: to lie behind something – phrasal verb – to be the real reason for sth
And now where….?