Open the brackets, using the Present Continuous or the Present Perfect Continuous.
1) He had barely entered the room when his secretary said, „Somebody (ring) ........ for you for the last five minutes.”
2) „What the children (do) ........ ?” – „They (play) ........ games all morning and now they (learn) ........ to tell time by the position of the sun.”
3) „Our friends (leave) ........ .” – How long they (stay) ........ with you?”
4) "What.you (think) ........ about?" - "I (not/think) ........ , I (count) ........ the birds in the sky."
5) „Where's my daughter?” – „She (talk) ........ to a policeman.” – „What's happened?” – „She (drive) ........ without a license.”
6) „Florence, dear, I (look) ........ for you everywhere.” – „What's happened?” – „Mr.Cusak (wait) ........ for you in the house.”
7) „What you (do) ........ here?”
8) He (do) ........ his lessons since after lunch. 3. „Where's Fred?” – „He (work) ........ in the garden. He (plant) ........ rose bushes since dawn.”
9) All things in the drawing room are out of place. The children (play) ........ hide-and-seek!
10) I (think) ........ of you aunt's proposal since we last met.
11) We (stay) ........ at the Regent Hotel; won't you come and see us?
12) For a week now those mice (steal) ........ food from the pantry.
13) Down by the pine woods they (lay) ........ out a new road.

1) has been ringing; 2) have been doing; they have been playing; they are learning; 3) are leaving; they have been staying; 4) have you been thinking; I am not thinking; I 've been counting; 5) she is talking; has been driving; 6) I am looking; has been waiting; 7) are you doing; 8) is doing; he is working; has been planting; 9) have been playing; 10) I have been thinking; 11) we are staying; 12) has been stealing ; 13) are laying