You are working with the Past Perfect verb tense in that sentence. Check the
site below.
http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/pastperfect.html
This site will give you a summary of all forms of verb tenses.
http://leo.stcloudstate.edu/grammar/tenses.html
after he had (ran,run)about 5 kilo, he had (sank,sunk) to the ground
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