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UNIT
EXERCISES 94

94.1 If necessary, correct these sentences. If they are already correct, put S. (B, C & D)
1 Before you will know it, your children will have grown up.
2 I was only just in time. As I had taken my seat, the concert started.
3 It's still two hours before I have to be back.
4 After I paint the outside of the house I'm going to decorate the kitchen.
5 He will be released from prison after he will have served 4 years.
6 She will be 25 when she completes her course.
7 When the two leaders had met, they shook hands.
8 They ordered coffee when they ate their main course.
9 You can watch television after you have cleaned your room.
10 I won't give up before I will have finished what I set out to do.
94.2 Here are some extracts from the biography of a mountain climber,
Daniel Hurst. Write before or until in the spaces,
or before/until // both are possible. (C)

1 iHe stayed in the tent the fog cleared. Only then was he able to go on.j
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2 JHe didn't believe that climbing the south face would be possible „ hej
spoke to local villagers who knew of a possible route.
) By taking a shorter but steeper route, he reached base camp]
his fellow climbers.
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4 | > He climbed he was exhausted and could go no further.^
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5 {He had to wait five years he had another opportunity to climb Everest/

Hurst waited with his companion the rescuers came, and then helped]
ithem carry her back down the mountain.

7 Fortunately, he had left the summit the storm started. <

94.3 Complete the sentences in any appropriate way. (C)
1 Jim had hardly ...9^?.^..M..^r..M^ he realised he'd left his keys on
the kitchen table.
2 Scarcely had people were calling for it to be widened.
3 Hardly had other scientists claimed that the
methodology had been flawed.
4 I had no sooner than my boss called me up to his
office.
5 Donna had scarcely the telephone started ringing.
6 No sooner local residents began complaining about
the noise.
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