Use the Present Perfect or the Present Perfect Continuous
1. I (to try) all the afternoon to get a minute alone with you. 2. “I don’t suppose you (to have) much to eat all day,” said my mother. 3. You (to wait) long? — Yes, I (to stand) here for more than half an hour, 4. You (to see) Beatrice lately? 5. No one ever (to have) a better son than our Herbert. 6. I’m afraid, I (to promise) to wait for Mr and Mrs Watkins. 7. I (to try) to get a good job for many months now. 8. You haven’t a nerve in you. You never (to have). 9. He (to give) Sophie dancing lessons or pretending to? 10. I (to think) about nothing else since then. 11. He (to amuse) himself that way all his life. 12. “I (not to be) out,” she said. “I (to stay) here, all by myself.” 13. I (to look) forward to it all the week. 14. What you (to do) to yourself since I (to be) away? 15. You (to nag) me long enough about having a holiday. 16. I just (to wash) my hair and I (to try) to dry it by the radiator. 17. I’ll make you a cup of tea. I (to long) for one myself, but I (to be) too lazy to have one on my own. 18. She (to nurse) the hardest cases for four years.