Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
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Though he had sniped mercilessly at Erhard almost from the day in 1963 that he handed the job over to him, the ex-Chancellor was strangely quiet, presumably recovering from the effects of a bad cold.
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For a year, Scully and the Pauley organization had sniped at Jimmy Roosevelt.
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Before the takeover, Editor Gould's editorials had sniped consistently at the tottering Nationalist regime, babbled confidently over the prospects of Communist rule.
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The Chicago Daily News and the Sun had sniped away interminably at the Tribune, while the really big game-the all-important Senate seat-slipped through.
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Yet through the twenty months that the opposing armies had sniped at each other from the same positions the relic had done faithful auxiliary service.
From My Second Year of the War by Frederick Palmer
