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Example sentences for "had had"

  • There was no trap, in truth, because I had had no suspicion.

  • I noted this; I remembered what an acquisitive propensity she had shown when it was a question of extracting gold from me, and I privately rejoiced at the happy thought I had had in suspending my tribute.

  • Now that the fact had met me I took a bad view of it, especially of the idea that poor Miss Tita had had to manage by herself after the end.

  • I had had my eye upon him before that time, for I knew his ways.

  • Stephen looked older, but he had had a hard life.

  • For all I had had so much to do with the sanatorium, I never forgot that I was only the spring-house girl.

  • I wish I had had as much experience in learning what's right with folks as I have had in learning what's wrong with them.

  • It was on the third day, I think, that Miss Cobb told me that Miss Patty and her father had had a quarrel the day before.

  • Miss Cobb and I had had many a fight over it, but at that time there wasn't much likelihood of either of us being called on to choose.

  • The light was failing when he came into a woodlawn amidst of which was a pool of water, and all that day he had had no adventure with beast or man, since he had sundered from Agatha.

  • It was early autumn once more, and such a busy week we had had at the mill, that Tom was perforce obliged to remain at home and help, though he longed to be gone with Cowan and Ray a-hunting to the southwest.

  • I found myself listening to Monsieur de St. Gre with gravity, and I did not dare to reply that I had had evidence of Mademoiselle's aptness of retort.

  • And yet I had had it from Clark's own lips (indiscreet enough now!

  • As the spring drew on I had had a feeling that we could not live thus forever, with no market for our pelts.

  • In his eyes was all the strange affection he had had for me ever since ave had been boys at Temple Bow together.

  • With the exception of the timid little creature in the glove-cleaning establishment in Sacramento, he had had no acquaintance with any woman.

  • But he had had a single distinct glimpse of her, definite, precise, and this glimpse was enough.

  • He had had no thought of fame while composing "The Toilers.

  • Gertrude, in taking the cake from the closet, had had a moment of acute consciousness that it composed the refection of which her sister had thought that Mr. Brand would like to partake.

  • Ever since that evening of his return from Newport her image had had a terrible power to trouble him.

  • We had had to feel our way before, but we could make out to see the fence posts now.

  • If he had had as many conveniences as he lacked, we should have been plenty comfortable enough; even as it was, we made out very well, in his queer old castle, by the help of comforts and luxuries from the ship.

  • I had had a choice band of them in private training for some time, and the date was now arriving for their first public effort.

  • I had had a blackboard prepared, and it was put up now, and the circus began.

  • In the short time he had had to collect his senses, the boy had firmly resolved that, whether he died in the attempt or not, he would make one effort to dart upstairs from the hall, and alarm the family.

  • He wondered within himself whether this man had been to get his dinner, what he had had, and where he had had it; and pursued this train of careless thought until some new object caught his eye and roused another.

  • It had had plenty of room to expand, thanks to the spare diet of the establishment; and perhaps to this circumstance may be attributed his having any ninth birth-day at all.

  • He had had a fever six times; he wasn't recommended to mercy on that account.

  • And if I had had assistance, I see no good that I should have done, except leading to my own exposure, and an unavoidable statement of the manner in which I have hushed up this business.

  • If he had had trousers on his legs I should not have known them from my own, so deliberately were they lifted up, so gently were they put down, so slowly did they get over the ground.

  • She had broken away from him in the night, with loud and sudden cries--the first of that kind to which she had given vent--and he had had to put his hands over her mouth.

  • I had studied myself; I had had experience of myself; I knew how much I loved her, and how happy I should be,' pursued the Carrier.

  • I wish he had had a better subject, John,' she said, with an uneasy glance about the room.

  • John thoughtfully patted one of the shoulders, and then the head, as though he would have said No, no; he had had no such expectation; he had been quite content to take them as they were.

  • Of three sons whom he had had in the army, he had already lost two, and now was himself put to death with the third.

  • He had had a difference formerly with Dion in Peloponnesus, and had resolved, upon his own means, with what ships and soldiers he had, to make an attack upon Dionysius.

  • At another time, Demetrius, after spending several days in a debauch, excused himself for his absence, by saying he had had a violent flux.

  • It troubled him to see Pompey so successful in all his undertakings; that he had had a triumph before he was capable to sit in the senate, and that the people had surnamed him Magnus, or the Great.

  • Here also he had had doubts of the nature of the malady; at one time he had suspected pregnancy, a suspicion for which there were good grounds.

  • The questioning of Kostolo drew from him the admission that he had had a number of mistresses all at one time.

  • I was innocent; and yet was seldom able to lay my hand on my new name when it was needed; and it seemed to me that if I had had a crime on my conscience to further confuse me, I could never have kept the name by me at all.

  • I had had a glimpse of it fifteen years ago, and another glimpse six years earlier, but both were so brief that they hardly counted.

  • But I came away from the theater that night disappointed and offended; for I had had no glimpse of my hero, and his name was not in the bills.

  • One bookseller to whom I applied told me that he had had a few copies before he understood the nature of the work, but that, after becoming acquainted with it, nothing should induce him to sell another.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    fresh mushrooms; had acquired; had been; had before; had but; had called; had determined; had died; had killed; had meant; had never seen before; had now; had one; had previously; had rather; had read; had scarcely; had suffered; had taken from the; had the greatest difficulty; had told; had two; had used; had with; had written; wide range