Examples of Past Perfect from real people and real stories online. Here past perfect is used to show a past event happening before another past event. More past than past.
"I was on a service trip to Nicaragua in college and struck up a conversation with the random person who was sitting next to me on the bus. While exchanging pleasantries, we got to the topic of where we were from. I told her my hometown, and she said that she actually lived there for a year when she was in third grade. After narrowing things down even further, we eventually figured out that we were in the same third-grade class. We hadn’t seen each other in 13 years, but we somehow ended up sitting next to each other on a bus, thousands of miles away from home."
"When I was about 10 years old my parents and I were in our backyard clearing out a ton of weeds that had gotten out of hand. I had trouble focusing because our next door neighbor had this really adorable puppy and all I wanted to do was play with him.
We found out that they were actually going to take him to an animal shelter because their son was not taking care of him like he promised. I decided to ask my parents if maybe we could get him instead. I was an only child and never really had anyone to play with.
My parents agreed and our neighbors offered to sell him to us for $20, which was a lot of money for a kid. I had saved up some money and immediately agreed and promised I care for him and love him forever. So, he became my puppy and like a brother.
"A buddy of mine called me up one day to tell me he and his toxic, controlling girlfriend had broken up, and he wanted to celebrate with a few drinks. At the time, I was living a very antisocial lifestyle and almost said no, but something that day told me I needed to get out of the house. So I agreed.
"Turns out, that was the night I met my future wife. When we were reminiscing about that night, my wife said she also almost declined going out."