XI. Complete the stories by using the verb in brackets in one of the past tense forms. A) A young man 1) ... (walk) into a supermarket in Southampton and 2)... (put) a few items of food in a basket. He 3)... (choose) a time when not many pep- ple 4).... (shop) in the store. He 5) ... (find) a checkout where no one else 6) (wait). When the cashier 7)... (check) the goods, the man 8)... (give) her a £10 note. When she 9) ... (open) the till, the man quickly 10).... (snatch) all the money from it and 11) ... (run) out of the store before she 12).... (realize) what was hap- pening. At the time the security guard 13)... (stand) at the other end of the store. When staff checked the records in the till, they 14)... (find) that the thief 15) ... (take) only £4.37. As he had left the $10 note behind, the operation had cost him £5.63. ... B) Last year, Tom and Fiona 1) ... (decide) to buy a house. They 2) ... (save up) for ages, and by the end of May they 3) ... (put by) enough for the deposit on a house. They 4) ... (live) in a tiny flat at the time and Fiona 5)... (insist) that she 6) (want) a house with a big garden. They 7)... (search) for only a few days when they found exactly what they 8)... (look for) - a two-bedroom house with nearly an acre of garden. Unfortunately the owner 9)... (ask) much more than they 10) ... (be) willing t pay, when the owner 9)... much more interior, they 12) ... (see) thad whoever 13)... (live) there before, 14)(make) an absolute mess of the walls and floors. Still, Fiona 15)... (like) the garden and the location so much that she 16). (manage) to convince Tom that, despite the price, it 17)... (be) the perfect house for them.