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"had previously requested" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to express that someone asked for something prior to the present time. For example: "The customer had previously requested a refund, but we had not yet processed it."
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Her letter confirmed that she had previously requested an audit.
The editor had previously requested "significant" changes to other programmes in the series.
Mr. Knight had previously requested to be let out of his contract with the show.
Despite this, most police agencies could not explain how old metadata they had previously requested was.
He said the brigade had previously requested reinforcements from a Tripoli-based rival parliament which had not arrived.
But the deal does not require Russia to increase the domestic gas price as fast as Brussels had previously requested.
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Customers have previously requested colors matched to a favorite nail polish and even a turquoise kitchen mixer.
Mr. Pataki would not specify today how the commission would be expanded, but state officials have previously requested additional staff and money to keep up with the groundswell of lobbying in the state capital.
Instead, I emailed my questions and approached his peers for supporting interviews, only later discovering that Kozelek has previously requested that journalists should not interview his associates for pieces about him.
Government officials have previously requested the media not refer to them as "cages". As recently as last week, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen got into a semantic back-and-forth with members of Congress about what constitutes a cage.
The GEO Approved Course Database is a database of courses for which Duke students have previously requested transfer credit.
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