Usage Examples Past Perfect

• How long had he been here? -
• No, I hadn't noticed. -
• Had he made a mistake? -
• She lived a life she'd only dreamed -
• What had happened to us? -
• He didn't know what she had heard. -
• When had she experienced it before? -
• It was the first new car they had ever owned. -
• Had they broken a law? -
• What had it been? -
• They hadn't thought he was conscious. -
• I understood what had happened. -
• She had destroyed them all. -
• That was the answer they had wanted. -
• She hadn't saved him. -
• What had he expected? -
• I saw the crowd that had gathered. -
• It was a question he'd never asked. -
• It was worse than I'd expected. -
• He remembered what had happened. -