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Example sentences for "had learned"

  • He had never been to school a day in his life, but in some way he had learned to read and write while a slave.

  • The young man from Ohio who had learned to read the papers was considered, but his age was against him.

  • Adam knew nothing of himself, perhaps nothing of his need of another self; I, an alien from my fellows, had learned to love what I had lost!

  • I began by telling them that I had learned a good deal about them, and knew now where they came from.

  • Yes," he answered, in the rather croaky voice I had learned to know, "the ground will be nice for them to get out and in!

  • They had lived in a camp in the grounds of the house near Windsor (which, as we had learned at the time of its destruction, the Doctor had bought outright).

  • Not that he did not recognise that he had been a fool again and was in a nasty place; but it was not for the first time in his life, and he had learned how to brazen himself out of nasty places.

  • He had looked like that himself many an unfeeling day before he had learned to "know the ropes and not mind a bit of hot air.

  • In the seat next to himself sat a man of a type he felt he had learned by heart in the days of his life as Jem Salter.

  • He had learned a good deal from her in the past.

  • He had learned to read in the village school, and the girl was his daughter.

  • In courts he had learned to wear a composed countenance when he was prompted to smile, and he wore one now.

  • His own experience had not been such as to assist him to any realistic enlightenment regarding him, even when he had seen the society page and had learned that he had charge of it.

  • He had learned to understand his accepted privileges in making of cottage visits by this time; and when he clicked any wicket-gate the door was open before he had time to pass up the wicket-path.

  • He had learned at last the lesson it taught.

  • But he had learned to like the old man, to find him kind and wise, and to think that perhaps college and business had not brought out the best in Richard Gale.

  • He did not realize all that he had learned, but he was a different man.

  • He attacked his son, suggesting that he had been leading an evil life in Lucerne, as he had learned "from outside sources," and declared that either he should obey him or be cast off.

  • At last the moment came, and he departed with a heavy heart, for he had learned to love these simple, kindly folk, especially the Pasteur.

  • She was in one of her most pitiable moods; for there were gradations in her unhappiness, as he had learned to know.

  • He opened the door, noiselessly, as he had learned by practice to do, and as noiselessly entered the vestibule and went up the stairs.

  • She made no further attempt to drape it; and he had learned to writhe before it, to cringe and go softly.

  • He liked nothing so well as for me to tell him about King David; and we had learned a good deal of each other's languages by that time.

  • He had learned not to think too highly of himself--he had yet to learn to "think soberly.

  • She held herself better, had learned to keep her hair in order, and the more womanly dress, plain though it was, improved her figure more than could have been hoped in the days of her lank, gawky girlhood.

  • He and his mother, Margaret Kostka, had learned Stanislaus' secret of happiness, and lived in spirit in that bright home to which Stanislaus had gone.

  • He had learned to forgive little offenses, and big ones, too, for that matter.

  • I did not know what he had learned of my past life, but I had noticed his anxiety, and, when he saw me settle down in the old home, he gave me a glance that went to my heart.

  • He was of about the same age--that is, his hair was turning gray, and during the twenty years he had lived with my father, he had learned some of his ways.

  • When I had learned all he knew, I returned to the lindens and sat down on a bench.

  • But I had learned to read before I had any knowledge of counting up numbers, and so was blissfully ignorant of the magnitude of my undertaking.

  • I had learned a great many hymns before the family took any notice of it.

  • Such was the state of my mind; I had read much; moreover I had learned to paint.

  • He had learned what he wanted, and when the scullion turned he was gone.

  • This was before he had learned to write fair English, and so was obliged to find a bazar letter-writer.

  • With millions of fellow-serfs, he had learned to look upon Russia as the great deliverer from the North.

  • Soon, however, I changed this mind of mine and placing the spy in close keeping where none could come at him, I set a watch on Larico but said nothing to him or to Kari of all that I had learned.

  • When he had learned all, he said: "This may be a trap, Lord.

  • Now, of soldiering I knew little who was a seaman bred, yet as I had learned, a man of the English race in however strange a country he finds himself can make a path there to his ends.

  • I found meat and native beer and brought them to him, for it was late and my servants were asleep, waiting till he had filled himself, for by this time I had learned something of the patience of these people.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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