Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
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We’d got all the right stuff – we had smoked salmon, a stilton in a truckle, and nobody had gone off-piste and innovated.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 19, 2019
I wondered if Duncan Dioguardi had ever had a broken-down car or if he had smoked the car, its antenna being the last piece remaining.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 3, 2018
Between 1964 and 2014, smoking rates declined by half; between 1996 and 2013, the number of eighth-graders who had smoked within the past 30 days fell from 21 percent to 4.5 percent.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 29, 2015
They gave me a plate of the most delicious salmon, which the chef had smoked on board, with a salad dressed in olive oil.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2015
At last Pa said the venison had smoked long enough.
From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder
