Past perfect cont./past perfect-zdania

Proszę o sprawdzenie i uzupełnienie poniższych zdań z użyciem past perfect continuous i past perfect:
1. a) She took a bottel from the bag she...had taken... all the way from home.
b) The avalache ...had been taking...them 500 meters down the mountain but no-one was hurt.

2. a) We...had applyed...for visas weell before our departure date, but still hadn't heard anything by the day we were due to leave.
b) She ...had been applying...for jobs, without success, since leaving university.

3. a) He.......all the way from New York to see me.
b) When the plane was diverted, it........from London to Frankfurt.

4. a) She........for the same company since she qualified.
b) He........finally....his way up from the shop floor to a management position.