14 sentences with 'had'

Example sentences and phrases with the word had and other words derived from it.

• « I had just returned from lunch and sat down at the desk when the phone rang. »
• « Then she asked me if I had any questions. I replied that I did not. »
• « I had quit smoking six years ago; I ate and drank in moderation and exercised every day. »
• « It was later discovered that he had ignored many warnings from his subordinates. »
• « The 26-year-old had gone to Coto Doñana in the summer of 1986 to study the migratory flamingos that visit this vast wildlife refuge on the Atlantic coast of southern Spain. »
• « Until then, the young man had been somewhat scattered, but on his return to Madrid he had defined his intentions very well. »
• « Carlos, the son of a civil servant, had become engaged to the daughter of a banker and was pursuing a Ph.D. in zoology at the University of Madrid. »
• « She had seen me carefully arranging all the first editions of his books in our bookcase. »
• « This was the first time Jim had seen Hana, who told him that she was also a writer and had brought her work with her. »
• « Before I was 20, I had seen almost every state in the country. »
• « Never had Kipling been so moved by an honor as this one. »
• « God had used him to save the soldier's life. »
• « Would that he had saved someone else's; someone who meant more to him than all the tributes in the world. »
• « By mid-morning on that December 5, 1991, the temperature had risen to five or six degrees Celsius. »
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