Past Simple and Past Continuous

 

 

I  (hear) a terrible explosion while I  (walk) into my office on the 24^th floor of the north tower, so I  (look) out of the window. Lots of paper  (fall) from the sky. There was an announcement to evacuate the building, so we  (start) walking down the stairs. As we  (go) down, we  (see) some fire-fighters who  (run) up the stairs. When we  (get) to the ground floor, we  (run) as fast as we could, and after 10 minutes we  (stop) to rest in a small park. That's where we  (stand) when the second tower  (fall) down.

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I  (live) in Edinburgh at the time in a fourth floor flat. It  (be) about two o'clock and I  (sleep). Suddenly I  (wake up). I  (hear) a dog barking loudly outside my window. I  (get up) and  (look) out. I  (be) still half asleep and it  (be) very dark but I could see that someone  (climb) up a ladder towards my bedroom window. I  (be) terrified. I quickly  (phone) the police. I  the situation when I  (hear) a knock on the window. I  (look) up. There  (be) my flatmate at the top of the ladder. He  (wave) and  (shout), "Let me in. I've forgotten my keys!"