EXAMPLES

1. When I got home my parents had just left.
2. When I met him he was 24. He had been in the States for 10 years (since he was 14 fourteen).
3. The airline had lost my suitcase so I had to borrow clothes from a friend.
4. We met him in Austin in 1998. We had last visited him five years before.
5. She had just prepared dinner when her husband called and said that he would be late.
6. We had never seen such beautiful white beaches before we went to Australia.
7. When he had gone, I went back into the house.
8. We thought we had seen the last of raindrops falling, when another downpour began.
9. The grin had left his face and he was staring at his girlfriend.
10. They didn't want to leave until they had seen all the paintings.
11. If I had known her address, I would have visited her.
12. She saw footprints and realized that someone had been in the garden.
13. He had always wanted to go to New Zealand, but could never save the money.