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Example sentences for "had bought"

  • He stated that he had thrown away the morphia and antimony, which he had bought in Paris, in the closets of the hotel, because, owing to the concatenation of circumstances, he thought that he would be suspected of murder.

  • Through other prisoners he tried to get at the chemists from whom he had bought acetate of morphia, and persuade them to say that the preparation of morphia which he had purchased was harmless.

  • To satisfy me of the truth of what he told me, he went immediately and brought one of the old inhabitants, of whom I had bought my slave, who confirmed the account he had given me of the fineness of the country of the Natchez.

  • Being arrived at the Creek Choupic the Sicur Lavigne, a Canadian, lodged me in a cabin of the Aquelou-Pissas, whose village he had bought.

  • If the Lacedaemonians have any children in their custody, they shall restore them every one to his city.

  • I had also asked for all the overcoats and slippers of my various friends, and I had bought up a job lot of two hundred flannel vests.

  • I had bought her an immense cooking range, so that she could make soups and herb-tea for fifty men.

  • But she was ravening for its answer, and I said I had bought it for twenty-five cents.

  • Just over that auction-block where grandpère had bought Mingo.

  • He mounted to his room, changed into the rough suit he had bought in Shelbyville, and forced his feet into his soggy shoes.

  • The sight of Knight gnawing at a hunk of bread sent him to his coat for the package of food he had bought at Big Shanty.

  • He displayed the heavy, rough boots he had bought at Shelbyville.

  • He left her a rich widow at five and twenty, mistress of the country place he had bought on the Bellefontaine Road, near St. Louis.

  • And days passed into weeks, and no sign or message came from Judge Whipple in regard to the piano he had bought.

  • Whatever his detractors might have said of him, no one was ever heard to avow that he had bought or sold anything for gain.

  • West how he had bought a town for them to dwell in.

  • I had bought a very fine copy of Taylor, the Water Poet.

  • Mentally he had hung this space with those gold-framed masterpieces of still and stiller life which he had bought in days when quantity was precious.

  • Thirty-five years ago he had bought it--thank God he had kept his palate, and earned the right to drink it.

  • Moreover, I was inconvenienced and distracted by a silk hat he had bought me, my first silk hat, much ennobled, as his was also, by a deep mourning band.

  • I forgot that she had raised her price two hundred pounds a year and that I had bought her at that.

  • The battalion of regulars was abreast of me, of which Major Rufus Saxton was in command, and I gave him an evening paper, which I had bought of the newsboy on my way out.

  • There was an empty house near the one they had bought.

  • The hopes of the Cruchots were centred on the successful marriage of the nephew (who called himself Cruchot de Bonfons, after an estate he had bought) with Grandet's heiress.

  • He had bought it because he wished to educate his only son at Harrow as a "Home-Boarder," or day-boy.

  • Beaumont-Greene, economical in such matters, had bought a couple of quires when his people went abroad.

  • He came back in a short time and said he had bought them, and that they came to $800.

  • In the meantime, I had bought my ticket to sail by the steamer Georgia to the Isthmus to go on the 1st of July which was but a few days off.

  • The colonel informed him he had bought six of my houses.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    bitterly cold; fatal issue; had also; had asked; had brought; had discovered; had ever; had expected; had finished; had for; had happened; had his; had killed; had managed; had never seen before; had nothing; had now; had put; had said; had scarcely; had seemed; had she; had spent; had suffered; had time; had tried