I had been keeping my heart for 5 years when I finally found you.

I had been looking you for 5 minutes when the train came

I had been loving you for 2 years when I found her

I had been looking perfect woman for 3 years before I met you

After I had been swimming for 2 hours, I got tired

I hadn’t been waiting very long when you came

Past perfect continuous

This use to earlier activities. For example

finally I bought the car that I had been saving up for

finally I bought the car that I had saved up for

for the earlier activities that continue for a long time like work, sleep, run, we can use either past perfect
simple or

using “used to” and “use to”

both of them are usually used to tell about habit in the past or we can say the habit that no more we do
it. The differences is, used to is used in positive sentence but use to is used in negative sentence.

Example: I used to wake up at 6 am. I didn’t use to meet her.

How to talk about cause and effect

- Therefore
- Thus
- Consequently
e-books are increasingly popular. Consequently, there has been a fall in sales of paper books.
- As a result
- For that reason
Followed by noun phrase
- Because of
- Due to
- Owing to
- That’s why (informal)

I did not sleep all evening yesterday, that’s why I am very sleepy today

I fell a sleep that’s why I did not answer your call.

I was very sleepy that’s why I slept.