1. When the police arrived, the car had gone.
2. When I got to the shop, it had been closed.
3. They had eaten everything by the time I arrived at the party.
4. When we left the beach, the rain had already started
5. I tried telephoning her several times but she had left the city.
6. When I found the purse, someone had taken the money out of it.
7. The car had gone when I looked into the street.
8. All the garages had been closed by the time we crossed the border.
9. You had already left when the trouble started
10. I was sorry that I hadn't been nicer to him.
11. Nobody came to the meeting because Angela had forgotten to tell people about it.
12. I had seen her before somewhere. — I didn't know
13. She couldn't find the book I had lent her.
14. All the people we had invited turned up, and some that we hadn't invited.
15. When she came in, we all knew where she had been