We'd Been Hoping for a Romantic Trip - Past Perfect Continuous

[Music] so tell me about the trip maya how was new york city did you and carl get to know each other better yes we did the trip was okay ever since carl invited me to new york city i had been marking the days off the calendar well i had been hoping to have a romantic trip with carl but you know that lucy decided to come along yes i know you told me did she ruin the trip kind of but i know she didn't do it on purpose anyway i had been worrying things might not turn

out the way i wanted ever since lucy invited herself to come along i have to admit that i'd been getting a little worried too i'd been thinking that something like that might happen please tell me about it first carl and i wanted to have a romantic dinner so we made a reservation at a fancy restaurant i had been encouraging lucy to go to a broadway show so that carl and i could be alone lucy bought a ticket for the show but then said she needed to get dinner tell me she didn't go to the same

restaurant as you not at first she said she wanted to try food from a street vendor she had seen we went our separate ways then when carl and i sat down to dinner lucy showed up she had been walking around for a while trying to find something to eat she decided she didn't want to eat food from a street vendor so she came to check out the restaurant we had been enjoying our time together so much before she showed up did you get any alone time with carl i tried i had been waiting for carl

to get up from the table as i didn't want to embarrass lucy in front of him when he went to the bathroom i told lucy i had been looking forward to spending time with carl on the trip was lucy understanding i thought she was at first she nodded and told me that she had been watching carl and i together and we seemed like the perfect match what happened next i had been keeping an eye on the time and i told her that she didn't want to be late to the show lucy left the restaurant to

go to the broadway show carl and i enjoyed the rest of our dinner together then we decided to take a romantic walk on the hudson river we had been dreaming about seeing the statue of liberty all lit up at night for a long time we walked in that direction that sounds so romantic i'm glad you finally got some alone time with carl we had been walking for some time when carl took my hand he had been leaning towards me trying to kiss me when lucy called she didn't like the broadway show so she left early

[Music] she had been riding the subway when she had the idea to call me she asked where carl and i were so i told her she decided that she would visit the statue of liberty with us carl had been getting more and more irritated with lucy but that was too much for him why didn't you just tell lucy that you wanted more alone time with carl i couldn't because carl had been standing there and had been listening to everything i said i was way too embarrassed to say all that in front of him so did

you two ever get to kiss [Laughter] yes sort of it was kind of funny the next day lucy wanted to go to central park she'd been looking for things to do when she saw a carousel she thought that it would be fun for all of us to ride it carl and i climbed onto the carousel next to each other and lucy chose to ride right behind us and you kissed on the carousel i had been hoping for a more romantic story than that the ride had ended and i had been trying to get off the

carousel but my leg was stuck on the horse carl came over to help me he tugged on my shoe trying to get it unstuck lucy had been watching then she wanted to help and tried to push me off she pushed me into carl and we both fell on the ground is that when you kissed yes we kissed by accident i would have liked a more romantic moment but it was okay the rest of the trip lucy followed us every place i said i wanted to go lucy said she had been planning on visiting too wow

so i guess lucy was with you the whole time at least she helped you have your first kiss with carl yes she's a great friend and a very nice person and i'm sure she meant well but good intentions can sometimes do more harm than good next time i plan a romantic trip i'll make sure i don't tell anybody about it [Music] the past perfect continuous shows that an action that started in the past continued upon to another time in the past the structure of the past perfect continuous is subject plus hat plus spin plus the

verb and ing the signal words for the past perfect continuous are when for scenes before she'd been looking for things to do when she saw a carousel we had been dreaming about seeing the statue of liberty all lit up at night for a long time ever since carl invited me to new york city i had been marking the days off the calendar we had been enjoying our time together so much before she showed up thanks for watching if you like this video please subscribe to our youtube channel