Sentence examples for past perfect from inspiring English sources

Would we then have a present on our hands that was, at best, past perfect?

His mother is an owner of Past Perfect, an antiques shop in Chicago.

Things further in the past are usually described in the past perfect tense.

The past perfect tense is as much use to them as the morning after pill to Anne Widdecombe.

Grammar books 'explain' this use of the past perfect after time conjunctions as 'something that happens sometimes', which is hardly satisfactory.

He cited an audio guide that Past Perfect produced with 3-D reconstructions of the Colosseum and another it plans to release soon on the Forum.

That is called, they tell me, "past-perfect tense".

Nearly all the reviews mention the same fatal flaw: past-perfect forms like "had done" and "had said".

Armas plans to sell his collection of vintage men's footwear — past-perfect shoes from 1900 to 1980.

Clarity without a lot of sentences and punctuation and past-perfect tenses.

Naylor uses the past-perfect verb "had" on several occasions to depict the tones of the scenes.