1. They corresponded for many years before they met.2. When I entered the room, everyone was silent. I realized that they were talking about me.3. The house smelled wonderful. Mom baked pies in the morning.4. My grandmother said that she always wanted to become a writer.5. The journalist said that for a month he has been working on a new article.6. Yesterday I finished reading Lev Tolstoy's "War and Peace". I read it for two months.7. There was a lot of snow on the streets. The whole night it was snowing.8. When my father came home, my mother and I were preparing dinner for an hour.9. The writer said that he had collected material for this book all his life.10. The Browns did not know that ghosts had been living in their house for a long time.