1. Her name was Logan. She had been a widow for fifteen years and had no children.
2. He wanted to find out how long the two men had been staying with them.
3. We talked about what we had been doing since we left school.
4. The last member of the party was Neville, the film star, whom David had known for some time.
5. Basil said that he had been writing all day and hadn't eaten anything.
6. She said she hadn't seen him since he was in his first year at the university.
7. It was cold and dark in the small room because it had been raining for five days.
8. He said he had had the statuette for a long time. The noise woke Joe who had been sleeping in his pram by the garage door.