8. Excuse me,Marcia,a reporter from Vanity Fair      (phone) all day. Could you speak to her now?

7. I'm tired out. I     (shop) all afternoon and I don't seem to have finished anything.

6. —We've spent too much money recently.

―Well,it isn't surprising. Our friends and relatives       (come) around all the time.

5. Joseph        (go) to evening classes since last month,

but he still can't say "What's your name? " in Russian.

4. Tom      ( work) in the library every night over the last three months.

3. The manager       (tell) the workers how to improve the programme since 9 am.

2. In order to find the missing child,villagers     (do) all they can over the past five hours.

1. ―I wonder if you can go to the cinema with me.

―Don't disturb me. I     ( write) a composition all the morning and haven't finished it yet.

5. We agreed to meet here but so far he hasn't been turning up yet.

4. —I'm sure Andrew will win the first prize in the final. ―I think so. He had been preparing for it for months.