Vocabulary: idioms (taking risks)

EX.95 Read these sentences about Julius Caesar. Then complete the sentence with the past simple or past perfect form of the verb in brackets.

a Julius Caesar (come) came from an aristocratic Roman family, though his family was not rich by Roman standards.

B When he was 15 his father (die)….. and to avoid political problems in Rome, Caesar (serve)…….as a soldier in the east.
c By the time he (return)……..to Rome, he (win) ………awards for bravery.
d He (become)……..a member of the Senate, and governor of what is now Spain.
e By the age of 40 he (rise) …….to the top of the political world, and (form)…….a political alliance with a powerful general, Pompey, and a rich man, Crassus.
f Between 58 BC and 49 BC he (fight)…..a war against the people of what are now France Belgium, Switzerland and parts of Germany.
g By the end of this war, according to the historian Plutarch, three million men (die) …..
h In 50 BC the Senate (order)…….Caesar to return to Rome. By that time, Crassus was dead and Pompey (become)……..Caesar's enemy.
i In the civil war that followed, Caesar (defeat)…….all his enemies.
j By the time a group of Roman senators (murder)….. him in 44 BC, he (be)……the most powerful man in Rome for only a year.

EX.96 Аll these sentences have а verb in the past perfect simple. Is it possible to replace it with the past perfect continuous?

1 I'd worked for the engineering company for three months before I realised mу

neighbour also worked there ………Yes: I`d been working………………………………..
2 As soon as George had finished the race, he drank three glasses of water .
3 Everything was white because it had snowed аll night .
4 Му parents were delighted when I qualified because they had always wanted mе to bе а doctor……………………………………………………………………………………..
5 She was exhausted when she got out of the pool because she'd swum three kilometres. ……………………………………………………………………………………………….
6 We'd only just sat down when the waitress саmе to take our order ……………………….
7 I could tell from their faces that they had argued about something ……………………...
8 Our dinner wasn't cooked because I'd forgotten to switch the oven оn …………………..