Past continuous describes a situation which is then interrupted by past simple actions. If you're familiar with something, if something is familiar to you, it means you know it already. She noticed him just maybe moving his hand in a way that was very familiar to her. And then I suppose she did a double take and looked again. We'll look at modal verb for talking about the past and modal verbs fortalking about the present.

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