Past perfect passive is used to talk about actions or events that happened before some moment in the past:

 

The concert had been rescheduled, so the spectators had to wait for another week.

 

All tickets had been sold out before we even heard about the concert.

 

The dinner had been cooked already when Jeffrey came home.    

 

To make statements with the Past perfect passive, use:

 

had been + the past participle form of the verb

 

Singular	Plural
I had been promoted You had been promoted He/she/it had been promoted	We had been promoted You had been promoted They had been promoted

 

Peter had been fined for speeding twice during the last month, and his driving manner became more careful.

 

Our neighbors moved out last week. How long had they lived there?

 

The fish hadn’t been cooked properly, so we sent it back to the kitchen.