Are the verbs in the following offers are placed correctly ?

Yersterday as I was walking down the Strand, I met George, an old friend of mine. He recognize me at once, though I weard a scarf round my face as I was suffering from toothache. He told me how sorry he to see me in such a poor way and added: "I came to see you a fortnight ago but unfortunately we was prepareing an annual accounts and as one of my colleagues was ill, I couldnt find time to get round you." All the time he was saying that I was trying to remember somthing I went to tell him. Eventually I remembered and sayd him: "Just before I was coming out I received a letter from Smith, in which he sayed that he was hoping you would phone him soon. He last saw you at Marion`s birthday party but you was talking so animatedly Mike that he did not interrupt" . Just then I saw another friend of mine. He was waving to me from the other side of the road. While I crossed the road, a car rushed from nowhere and knocked me down. Lucklily I fell into an open crate of bananas, which a barrow-boy was selling so I Isustain no great injury - though the bananas did.

Past simple or Past continuous verb must be there.