Read these sentences and open the brackets using the past perfect or the past perfect continuous. Write only the verb forms.
1. Kate
the walls all day before she finished them. (paint)
2. Tom
for a job for five months when he found one. (look)
3. Stan
as a manager for twenty years when he retired. (work)​

Ingredients:
1 egg, plus 2 extra egg whites
300 ml warm milk
10 g sugar
10 g yeast
225 g flour
vegetable oil for frying
butter for greasing blini
Method of Preparation:
1. To make a paste mix the yeast, milk, flour and sugar and egg yolk together in a large bowl.
2. Whisk the egg whites in a separate bowl until they form stiff peaks, then put them into the paste. Cover the bowl and set aside at room temperature for 20 — 30 minutes.
3. Heat a frying pan until medium hot, add a little vegetable oil and middle ladle of the blini mixture.
4. Cook the blini first on one side until golden-brown then turn it over and bake the other side then put blini onto a large flat plate and grease it with butter. Repeat with the remaining batter and keep the blini warm until ready to serveIngredients:
1 egg, plus 2 extra egg whites
300 ml warm milk
10 g sugar
10 g yeast
225 g flour
vegetable oil for frying
butter for greasing blini
Method of Preparation:
1. To make a paste mix the yeast, milk, flour and sugar and egg yolk together in a large bowl.
2. Whisk the egg whites in a separate bowl until they form stiff peaks, then put them into the paste. Cover the bowl and set aside at room temperature for 20 — 30 minutes.
3. Heat a frying pan until medium hot, add a little vegetable oil and middle ladle of the blini mixture.
4. Cook the blini first on one side until golden-brown then turn it over and bake the other side then put blini onto a large flat plate and grease it with butter. Repeat with the remaining batter and keep the blini warm until ready to serve                 

I usually get up at 7 o’clock. Of course it’s too early for me. You can say “Why? ” I’ll answer: «I like to sleep so much, and I usually go to bed very late. So at 7 o’clock I feel myself sleepy. For that reason I drink a cup of strong coffee to wake up more quickly. After a cup of coffee I usually take a shower. Fresh shower braces up. Then I get dressed. I open my wardrobe and choose what I want to wear today. It’s high time, I’m in a hurry. But I try to have a snack (sandwiches, eggs, porridge and so on). I need to be at school (university) at 8.30. I get away and go to the bus stop. I usually go to school (university) by bus. (I go to school (university) on foot.)