It was raining and the wind was blowing. - background description to event in a story, He was exhausted because he had been walking all day. - past action of certain duration which had visible results in the past, There was no milk, because Jack had drunk it all. - past equivalent of the Present Perfect, She had finished by 8 o'clock - past action that occurred before a stated time in the past, The storm broke out after we had been driving for four hours. - past equivalent of the Present Perfect Continuous, He got into the car, started the engine and drove away. - past actions which happened one after the other, The party had already started by the time I arrived - past action that occurred before another action, Heath Ledger died in 2008. - event which happened at a stated past time, I was cycling to work when I fell off my bike. - past action in progress interrupted by another, The Beatles made lots of records. - action that is not connected with the present and happened at a definite past time not mentioned, I was sleeping at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon. - action that was in progress at a stated past time, She had been trying to find a job in Hollywood for years before she moved to Miami. - emphasis on the duration of the action which started and finished in the past before another past action or a stated time in the past,

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