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27 3. The doctor examined/was examining a fractured arm and applied/was applying a splint to it. 4. I consulted/was consulting a doctor at this time yesterday. 5. His mother had been suffering/were suffering from a bad pain in the chest for fifteen minutes before an ambulance doctor came. 6. By the end of the week the patient’s temperature fell/had fallen to normal. 7. The doctor diagnosed/had been diagnosing pneumonia as a complication after the flu. 8. The patient was/had been well until the morning of the day of admission, when she awoke with a severe generalized headache. 9. When I entered / was entering the operating room the anaesthetist was trying/had been trying to make the baby breathe again. 10. Before the patient was admitted to the hospital he had been complaining/was complaining of a considerable muscular pain for two days. III. Complete the sentences using the correct form of the verb in the brackets. 1. My friend could not walk. He … (to break) his leg. 2. The patient … (to note) a swelling on the lower left side of the chest. 3. Before the admission to the emergency department the man … (to suffer) from chest pains for six hours. 4. Ten months before the current illness, she … (to have) an episode of nephrolithiasis with spontaneous passage of a renal stone. 5. Although the patient … (to receive) the injections of streptomycin for several days she showed little improvement. 6. Physical examination … (to reveal) thoracic asymmetry with a soft, reducible mass corresponding to the region of swelling that was painful on palpation. 7. The patient said he … (to experience) sharp abdominal pains, poorly localized to the mid-zone, for some months. 8. I … (to give) a presentation on my research when you … (to call) me. 9. The team of researchers … (to publish) an account of their experiment by Tuesday. 10. This study … (to determine) the epidemiologic characteristics and etiology of asymptomatic upper respiratory tract infection in the first year of life and the association with acute otitis media complication.