Past Perfect Tense: Examples.

 

1. My kids were really exhausted and ready for sleep because they had both played soccer for hours that afternoon.
2. My daughter had won the two previous spelling bees which made her feel very disappointed when she lost this year to another student.
3. I had just arrived at the airport gate when I saw the attendant closing the gate.
4. My teacher thought she had sent out letters to all the parents about the upcoming field trip until she found all the papers sitting in the copy tray.
5. I had paid my son an allowance last year but asked him to get a job this year instead.
6. My son had volunteered to help me in the garden all summer until he realized how much work it actually was.
7. Had you concentrated harder on learning your ABCs in elementary school, these reports would not be as difficult for you to write now that you have an office job.
8. Can you tell me how much money you had saved up before your student loan became due?
9. I had played a trick on my neighbors this past Halloween, but then they called the police and reported me.
10. My friend had slept over at my house for the last two weeks and then I spent the next two weekends at his place.

FROM:  https://7esl.com/past-perfect-tense/ 

PAST PERFECT SIMPLE.

PAST PERFECT : HAD + PAST PARTICIPLE

                                 

Taken from https://www.liveworksheets.com/ 

PAST SIMPLE, PAST CONTINUOUS OR PERFECT.

Choose verbs from below and write them in the PAST SIMPLE, PAST CONTINUOUS OR PERFECT.

drive  – get – see  - receive - happen- try - start-

I'm Steve, a motor mechanic and this is the story of something strange that -----------------to me about five years ago.

It was a freezing cold winter. One day I------------a call to assist a motorist whose car had broken down and was stuck in the snow.

As I------------------to the place where the motorist was stranded, I noticed that the snow was getting heavier. When I------------the phone call, I was sure I knew where the motorist was. But when I got there, I couldn't see a car anywhere. I----------to call my office, but my mobile's battery was dead. I looked around, the snow had stopped, but it was lying thick on the ground.

I got out of the car and --------------looking for some sign of the motorist. I looked down and saw some footprints in the snow. I began following them. They led over a small bridge and across a park. It was freezing cold. 

I had been following the footprints for about five minutes when I ---------a phone box about one hundred metres away. I listened. I heard a noise. …….