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Example sentences for "had intended"

  • He enclosed some money to his mother which he had intended to send, but which, before the occurrence of the good fortune that now seemed opening upon him, he thought he must withhold.

  • Barker received the anecdote in absolute silence, standing helplessly with the photograph in his hand; and Sewell with a hasty sigh forbore to make the application to the ordinary American ambition to be rich that he had intended.

  • But he chose quite a different theme from that on which he had intended to preach.

  • But I had intended to offer you a little present at Christmas, and I will give it you now.

  • He understood something of the value of books, and he took a sorrowful leave of many which he had read, and of many more which he had intended to read.

  • He had intended to have gone the whole stage, and to have returned in the job and four.

  • And this very day I had intended to arrange a meeting between you.

  • One man only was visible outside, and he seemed to be later at an appointment than he had intended to be, for he hastened up to the door, lifted the latch, and walked in without ceremony.

  • He knew of some carved cask-heads and other curious wood-work in the castle cellars, copies of which, being unobtainable by photographs, he had intended to make if all went well between Paula and himself.

  • I am now going to own to a weakness about which I had intended to keep silent.

  • I had intended to go down again to Reigate to finish the job myself; I should scarcely have missed a second time.

  • He had intended to walk the two miles back to the station, but it meant a drenching to do it now.

  • I felt that, though I had intended to give him up, I could not now becomingly marry any other man, and that I ought to marry him.

  • Her fever of anxiety lest after all he should not come to see Avice again had been not without an effect upon her health; and it made her more candid than she had intended to be.

  • I had intended, in accordance with the customs of our country, to choose a fitting husband for thee shortly myself, to whose care I should have committed thee; but the gods willed differently.

  • Master of a large sum of money, he had intended to spend it as he would have spent it in his younger days.

  • He told me he had intended to give them to his son Prince, for his bride, but that now he would send them to mother, who could sell them for a handsome sum, because they were valuable.

  • I had intended to start off again about four a.

  • We had intended to try and induce two of the Agai Ambu to accompany us back to Cape Nelson, but most unfortunately they understood that we were going to take them forcibly away.

  • For that reason the book is not so large as I had intended.

  • So I am liable to abandon the great labor to which I had intended to devote my life, my dazzling genius and my princely income.

  • The weather was good and I had intended to sail on the same evening by moonlight, following the glacier-tongue northward in clear water for sixty miles.

  • I had intended to make a trip to Masson Island before the winter properly set in, but with the weather behaving as it does, I don't think it would be wise.

  • The sun was shining and we had intended rising at 10 A.

  • While Hurley and I pitched the tent, Webb built a breakwind for his instrument fifty yards away.

  • The poor creature appeared to have broken its back, for it was attempting to sit up with the front part of its body while the hinder portion lay limp.

  • It was now discovered that the fluke of the anchor had broken off short, so great had been the strain imposed upon it during the height of the hurricane.

  • Harrisson went out to feed the dogs in the morning and broke through the lid of a crevasse, but fortunately caught the side and climbed out.

  • He had watched the collision between Pompey and Caesar with a neutrality which was to plead for him with the conqueror, and he had intended to make his own advantage out of the quarrels between his father's enemies.

  • He had intended to go to Italy, but he abandoned all thoughts of departure.

  • It was very interesting, and, if you remember, we walked farther than I had intended.

  • Hampden, poor in cash, had intended to spend the summer as a book agent.

  • He had intended not to go down, but to shut himself in with the brandy bottle until nightfall.

  • A long afternoon of the toil that tires and vexes not, and at sundown he was glad to ride home on top of the last wagon instead of walking as he had intended.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "had intended" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    had always; had asked; had done; had fallen; had gained; had given; had himself; had learnt; had never before seen; had never heard before; had not; had not been long; had obtained; had put; had read; had reason; had recourse; had resolved; had risen from the; had something; had such; had thought; had two; had used; scientific thought; thick darkness