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1)
Terry: What are you going to be doing this time next year?
Pete: I’ll be
teaching for a big, successful English language academy in
Tokyo.
Terry: I didn't know you were thinking of leaving Spain.
Pete: I got a great job offer with an excellent salary.
Besides, by the time I move,
I’ll have been living in Madrid for more than six years. I
think it's time for a change.
2)
Pete: Steph’s been in the kitchen all day long.
Terry: I don’t think she’s having a very enjoyable
birthday.
Pete:
She’ll have been cooking for more than six and
half hours by the time all the guests arrive for dinner this
evening. I hope,
she’ll have finished everything by then.
Terry: Maybe we should offer to help her? Y’know,
give her a hand with the food?
Pete: Nah. We’d only get in the way. Besides, the
football’s
starting / ‘ll be starting in a minute.
3)
Steph: Did you hear that Andy
is going
on holiday to Asia this August?
Terry: I can't believe how often she goes abroad.
Where exactly does she want to go?
Steph:
She’ll be visiting Cambodia, Laos and Thailand.
Terry: At this rate, she’ll
have visited every country in the world by the
time she retires.
4)
Steph: Hurry up Terry! Do you realise how late we
are? By the time we get to the restaurant, everyone
will have already
finished eating.
Terry: Don’t blame me, Steph. It's your fault for
taking so long to dry your bloody hair!
Steph: I couldn't get it to look right.
Terry: What difference does it make? By the time
we get there, everyone
will have left
anyway!
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5)
Pete: It's 7:30, and I have been working on my report for nearly
two and a half hours.
Terry: Do you think
you’ll have finished by 9:00? There's a darts match on at
the pub tonight.
Pete: I’ll probably
have done the report by 9:00, but
I’ll have been working
on it for more than three and a half hours, and I don't think I am going
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