Choose the correct option.

0. By the time I arrived/had arrived, my friends already left/had already left the exhibition.
1. I knew/had known I had to buy the landscape painting after I saw/had seen it. I simply loved it!
2. I wanted/had wanted to say 'yes' immediately after he asked/had asked me to work in his gallery.
3. I wasn’t moved/had not been moved by any painting before I saw/had seen 'The Scream' by Edvard Munch.
4. I never spoke/had never spoken in public before I gave/had given a speech at your exhibition.
5. By the time he died/had died in 1890, Vincent Van Gogh sold/had sold only one painting – 'The Red Vineyard' from 1888.