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Thank you, this explanation I have already known before- but what puzzled me, was the sudden out-of-the-blue usage of the past perfect when there appeared to be no need for it. why should we put things in the "far past", when they belong to the "ordinary" past?


The manager is said to have arrived from Paris where he met some European partners.
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