past perfect tense

The past perfect shows that once past event happened before another past event. It's like the past before the past.

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One of my favorite quotes 

“All his life he had wished and waited, and there had been no change, except for the worse.”

― James T. Farrell, Studs Lonigan

Answer : had wished and waited