Past Tense: Explanation and Examples - Grammar Monster
Examples of the Past Perfect Tense "had" + [past participle] I had played already. I had crossed the line. I was free, but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land. (Political activist Harriet Tubman) I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different. (Poet T S Eliot)