Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
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They were gone for half an hour, and they came back laughing as though they had soaped somebody's windows.
From Time Magazine Archive
Not the kind of baby hair her grandmother had soaped and played with and remembered for forty years.
From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison
He rubbed them on the stone exactly as a washerwoman handles a flannel garment, and out of them came a lather as though he had soaped them.
From White Shadows in the South Seas by Frederick O'Brien
