Put the verbs in brackets into the past simple or the past continuous. Andy 1).....(step) into the house and 2).....(close) the door behind him. Everything 3).....(be) quiet. His heart 4) .....(beat) fast and his hands 5).....(shake) as he crept silently into the empty house, but he was trying not to panic. He soon 6)......(find) what he 7)..........(look) for. He smiled with relief as he put on the clothes. The men who 8)....(follow)him would never recognise him now.