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Example sentences for "had already"

  • I found that country pub which I had already recommended to your notice, and there I made my discreet inquiries.

  • And yet the amazing thing is that he must have been there all the time, for when I examined the door again in the morning, he had scrawled some more of his pictures under the line which I had already seen.

  • Your reflection, though profound, had already crossed my mind.

  • The victory of Claudius over the Goths, and the success of Aurelian against the Alemanni, had already restored to the arms of Rome their ancient superiority over the barbarous nations of the North.

  • Notwithstanding some traces of art and preparation, we may discover in this scene the manners of Carus, and the severe simplicity which the martial princes, who succeeded Gallienus, had already restored in the Roman camps.

  • Cleodamus, one of the engineers employed by the emperor's orders to fortify the maritime cities against the Goths, had already begun to repair the ancient walls, fallen to decay since the time of Scylla.

  • The various nations of Germany and Sarmatia, who fought under the Gothic standard, had already collected an armament more formidable than any which had yet issued from the Euxine.

  • He had already, rather from fickleness and love of novelty than from any deep design, been faithless to every party.

  • Godolphin, as Chamberlain of the Queen, had already been in the habit of giving her his hand when she repaired to her oratory, and felt no scruple about bowing himself officially in the house of Rimmon.

  • Mrs Quilp was left to pine the absence of her lord, when he quitted her on the business which he had already seen to transact.

  • Mind you keep that comfortable warm cloak on," said the same voice which I had already heard--the voice of the woman in the shawl.

  • The Count added that he had already attempted to give a friendly warning to Anne herself, but that she had been too much startled by seeing that he was a stranger to let him approach and speak to her.

  • I made my answers as short as I civilly could, for I had already determined to check the least approach to any exchanging of confidences between Count Fosco and myself.

  • This lady--known to local fame as Miss Wigger--had already proposed to take Syd into training as a pupil teacher.

  • Captain Bennydeck's eyes followed her, as she left the room, with an expression of interest which more than confirmed the favorable impression that he had already produced on Catherine.

  • Its stealthy advance over the water had already begun to hide the boathouse at the end of the pier from view.

  • I went to Morgan next, and appealed to him as I had already appealed to Owen.

  • The sacrifice of his integrity before his one all-mastering delusion seemed but a small thing, and cost his conscience but little after the sacrifices he had already made.

  • I say akin, for perhaps only once in our lives do we experience unmixed wonder and delight; and these I had already known.

  • The tone was, for the first time since we had spoken together, a tone that my experience associated with him in certain moods of his which I had already learned to know well.

  • We returned to the places which we had already occupied.

  • Was the weakness which I had already noticed, was the bewilderment which I now saw, attributable to the influence of a passing disturbance only?

  • In repeating, at his own desire, what I had already said to him, I took care to add the details which made Lady Clarinda's narrative coherent and credible.

  • Nor was this argument confined to the theologians of the Roman Church; Melanchthon, Protestant as he was, had already used it in his attacks on Copernicus and his school.

  • At eight o'clock the march was resumed in the same order as the night before, except that D'Artagnan left his friends and began to renew the acquaintance which he had already struck up with Monsieur Groslow.

  • The first I was ignorant of; the second I had already guessed; the third--" He gazed at her intently.

  • He had already been to Manchester and elsewhere, and seen how the new power was applied by Arkwright, Hargreaves, and others; his own ingenuity and mechanical knowledge furnished the rest.

  • The birds, which during the fire had taken refuge on the waters of the lake, had already returned to their accustomed spot, and were dabbling on the banks.

  • The next day, the 21st of April, Cyrus Harding accompanied by Herbert, went to look for the soil of ancient formation, on which he had already discovered a specimen of ore.

  • On the next day, therefore, by means of the sextant, the engineer made the necessary observations to verify the position which he had already obtained, and this was the result of his operation.

  • The day before, after having left the Chimneys at daybreak, he had ascended the coast in a northerly direction, and had reached that part of the shore which he had already visited.

  • We had already passed a large village named Abre, and the country was a forest of small trees, which, being in leaf, threw a delicious shade.

  • This he had already done, and he had exchanged a river horse, worth twenty dollars, for a terrestrial horse, worth twenty piastres.

  • The aggageers advised that we should return to the ford that we had already crossed, and, by repassing the river, we should most probably meet the elephants, as they would not leave the thick jungle until the night.

  • This fish measured three feet eight inches to the root of the tail, and two feet three inches in girth of shoulders; the head measured one foot ten inches in circumference--it was the same species as those I had already caught.

  • I determined upon luncheon under the shade of a welcome mimosa upon which I had already hung my water-skin to cool.

  • This wild place, too, these strange witnesses, this fierce host, had already furnished a taste of the society into which I had entered, and whose fetters I was soon to feel.

  • Indeed, that is the only reasonable course to take, and I had already thought of it; but it is not yet time to make the move.

  • To me, indeed, it seemed that the time for this had already arrived; for it is certain that I understood Edmee, better perhaps than any of the men who were paying their addresses to her in prose and verse.

  • It was true he had already searched it without result, but he was not then specially looking for a cellar, and with a more definite objective he might have better luck.

  • That evening he settled himself with his pipe to think over once more the facts he had already learned.

  • He began by trying to marshal the facts he had already learned.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "had already" 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:
    broadcast stations; continuous series; had but; had committed; had finished; had found; had got; had grown; had had; had himself; had his; had looked; had never; had once; had only; had put; had received from the; had risen; had the good fortune; had tried; had turned; have been; little grim; lower back; this quarter; world empire