Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
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By the end of their nine-hour workday, the red-jacketed patrollers had tobogganed out multiple knee injuries and a broken ankle, responded to a few crashes with trees and patched one bloody chin.
From Washington Post
After 14 years in Hollywood, his movie career had tobogganed to the point where he was playing second lead to a talking mule in the Francis pictures.
From Time Magazine Archive
In a fortnight the stock had tobogganed from 500 francs per share to 260.
From Time Magazine Archive
But it had tobogganed down a steep bank into an ice stream close by, and was floating away in the distance, cuckooing at intervals as it danced up and down upon the water.
From Soap-Bubble Stories For Children by Fanny Barry
The earth had given way up there just as it had with the moose in the woods, and the three had tobogganed down the steep hillside into the lake.
From The Campfire Girls on Ellen's Isle The Trail of the Seven Cedars by Hildegard G. (Hildegard Gertrude) Frey
