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Put the verbs in brackets into the simple past or past continuous: I (walk) along Piccadilly when I (realize)

that a man with a ginger beard, whom I had seen three times already that afternoon, (follow) me. To make quite sure, I (walk) on quickly, (turn) right, then left and (stop) suddenly at a shop window. I (go) on. hene!er

I (stop) he (stop), and whene!er I (look) around he (be) still there. "e (look) a !ery respectable type and (wear) !ery con!entional clothes and I (wonder) if he was a policeman or a pri!ate detecti!e. I (decide) to try and shake him off. # $% bus (stand) at the bus stop &ust beside me. Then the conductor (come) downstairs and (ring) the bell' &ust as the bus (mo!e) off, I (&ump) on it. The man with the beard (miss) the bus but (get) into another $%, which (follow) the first. (oth buses (crawl) !ery slowly along )nightsbridge. *!ery time the buses (pull) up at a stop, the man (look) out an+iously to see if I (get) off. ,inally, at some traffic lights, he (change) buses and (get) into mine. #t -loucester .oad /nderground, I (lea!e) the bus and (buy) a ticket at a ticket machine. #s I (stand) on the platform waiting for a 0ircle 1ine train, my pursuer (come) down the stairs. "e (carry) a newspaper and when we (get) into the same compartment, he (sit) in one corner reading it, and I (read) the ad!ertisements. "e (look) o!er the top of the newspaper at e!ery station to see if I (get) out. I (become) rather tired of being shadowed like this, so finally I (go) and (sit) beside the man and (ask) him why he (follow) me. #t first he (say) he (not follow) me at all but when I (threaten) to knock him down, he (admit) that he was. Then he (tell) me he (be) a writer of detecti!e stories and (try) to see if it was difficult to follow someone unseen. I (tell) him he hadn2t been unseen because I had noticed him in Piccadilly and I (ad!ise)him to sha!e off his ginger beard if he (not want) his !ictim to know he (be) followed.

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