Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
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Last year, Paler says, he had crew members who had been stuck aboard for 14 months — vaccines weren’t available, and no country would let them disembark.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 30, 2022
She has had crew members build bigger porches on the trailers for pregnant actresses so they wouldn’t have to teeter on narrow, unstable steps.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 10, 2019
All of them had crew cuts — they were trimmed super close.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 12, 2016
“We had crew on their boat and they noticed that all the doors had been tied open, which is the opposite of what you do if you’re taking on water after a collision,” he said.
From Slate ● Apr. 6, 2015
He was going to tell Petra that all the kids in Tommy’s new neighborhood had crew cuts, but that was pretty nothing.
From "Chasing Vermeer" by Blue Balliett
