10 Put the verbs in brackets into the appropriate past tense. If it 0) hadn't been (not/be) for Louis, Joan's trip to Paris 1) ...................... (be) a complete disaster. She 2) ...................... (not/meet) him before, but she 3) ...................... (be) certainly glad that she had by the end of her stay. The first thing that 4) ...................... (happen) was that the hotel where she 5) ...................... (plan) to stay 6) ...................... (not/receive) her booking, so they had no room for her. Then, as she 7) ...................... (try) to get a taxi to take her to another hotel, someone on a motorbike 8) ...................... (snatch) her bag with all her tickets and credit cards in it. As her French 9) ...................... (be) quite rusty, she 10) ...................... (not/know) how to explain what 11) ...................... (happen). It was then that Louis 12) ...................... (approach) her and 13) ...................... (introduce) himself.