had photographed
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past perfectof photograph.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Ms Doncheva admitted to police she had photographed the journalist's then workplace and sought to watch her from a nearby restaurant.
From BBC ● Mar. 24, 2025
He had a cosmetology license for electrolysis and as he aged, like the stars he had photographed, he felt the urge to recall that he had once been handsome.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2023
A previous version of this story incorrectly identified the shop owner in Amritsar who had photographed the Sikh militant leader Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 16, 2023
When Merav Vonshak wanted to identify the gelatinous blob she had photographed floating in a shallow pool of water on a family vacation, she bypassed a wildlife-related website too often beset by bickering.
From New York Times ● Dec. 9, 2022
I picked them up and held them before the light with strange excitement, curious to see the image that some prior occupant of this room had photographed.
From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin
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