NEF Advanced SB p169 the past

This [blank_start]happened[blank_end] when I [blank_start]was[blank_end] about five years old. My father [blank_start]had gone[blank_end] away on business for a few days and my brother and I [blank_start]were sleeping[blank_end] in my parents' bedroom. Before we went to bed that night, I [blank_start]had been reading[blank_end] a very scary story about a wicked witch. In the middle of the night I [blank_start]woke[blank_end] up with a start and [blank_start]saw[blank_end] that a figure in the dark coat [blank_start]was standing[blank_end] at the end of my bed. I [blank_start]screamed[blank_end] at the top of my voice.

Corinne and I [blank_start]used to be[blank_end] very close, but recently we've grown apart.

I [blank_start]used to have[blank_end] much longer hair when I was younger.

When I came into the room, my aunt [blank_start]was sitting[blank_end] with her back to me. When she turned round, I could see that her eyes were rather red and I was sure that she [blank_start]had been crying[blank_end].

My uncle [blank_start]used to live[blank_end] on his own because his wife [blank_start]had died[blank_end] several years earlier.

When my brother was a child, he [blank_start]didn't use to look[blank_end] at all like my father, but the older he gets the more he looks like him.