Record at natural speed with loud voice, please. Leave a very brief pause in each star (*) and do not read the name of the characters (A and B). Thank you in advance.
Talia arrived at 10:00. I'd been waiting for three hours to hear the tape.
I just found out that Dean had been lying the whole time.
He hadn't been practicing with the team.
By 10 o'clock, I'd been waiting for three hours.
I just found out that Dean had been lying the whole time.
It was late. When Talia finally arrived, Tony and I had been waiting for three hours.
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A: When did you become a reporter?
B: In 2000. I'd been working as a researcher before that.
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A: Had you been expecting a promotion?
B: No, but I was very happy about it.
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A: How do you like your new apartment?
B: I love it. Before I moved in, I'd been living with three roommates.
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A: Did you finish the report for class?
B: No. When I started it, I'd been unpacking boxes all afternoon. I was too tired to finish.
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A: So why did you get so angry at Dean?
B: I found out that he hadn't been planning to help me with my career at all.
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A: I called you at 3:00, but you'd already left work.
B: I covered a story early this morning. By 3:00, I'd been working for twelve hours.
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Sally Curran started her journalism career a lot earlier than most reporters. Curran was born in Washington, D.C., in 1985, but grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina. Before the Curran family moved to Raleigh, both her parents had been working for a TV news show in Washington, D.C. In Raleigh, her father became the news reporter for a local TV show, and her mother worked for a national newspaper. In middle school in 1995, Curran decided to publish a newsletter, The Cul-de-Sac, to report neighborhood news. Her interest in reporting wasn't surprising – by 1995, she had been watching her father report the evening news for years. The Cul-de-Sac printed Curran's first big story, a local pollution scandal. "This factory had been throwing its waste into our river for years when I reported it," Curran said. By the time she became editor of her high school newspaper, Curran had been covering neighborhood news for several years.
