query: "Had been on the phone" vs "Was on the phone"
positive_passages.docid: 8497
positive_passages.text: When is the past perfect exactly needed?
negative_passages.docid: 151460
negative_passages.text: Difference between "was to . . ." and "was to have"
negative_passages.docid: 10637
negative_passages.text: difference between "Have been" and "was"
negative_passages.docid: 93784
negative_passages.text: When should I use "in" or "on"?
negative_passages.docid: 99626
negative_passages.text: Present perfect or past simple
negative_passages.docid: 116596
negative_passages.text: "Would have been" Vs "Would be"
negative_passages.docid: 40495
negative_passages.text: What's the difference between "has been living" and "has lived"?
negative_passages.docid: 118270
negative_passages.text: Difference between "has + verbed" and "had + verbed"
negative_passages.docid: 42454
negative_passages.text: "spent a lot of time to shop" vs. "spent a lot of time shopping"
negative_passages.docid: 13947
negative_passages.text: Simple past or present perfect?
negative_passages.docid: 72252
negative_passages.text: What is the difference between "used to" and "I was used to"?
negative_passages.docid: 15983
negative_passages.text: "That was me" vs. "That was I"
negative_passages.docid: 112261
negative_passages.text: "On the last week" or "In the last week"?
negative_passages.docid: 139533
negative_passages.text: Have been Vs was/were
negative_passages.docid: 52640
negative_passages.text: Difference between sentences using 'was' and 'being'?
negative_passages.docid: 16395
negative_passages.text: when to used had been and have been
negative_passages.docid: 78336
negative_passages.text: past simple or present perfect