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Example sentences for "had brought"

  • I wish I had brought a mosquito-net and a clock.

  • Then she made the bed in the bed-room and I hung up a looking-glass and a few little pictures that we had brought in our trunks.

  • There was hay in the mow and I had brought a bag of oats under the seat of the carriage.

  • It pointed forward to the hour when these labours should be overpast, to the return voyage, and to many a meeting in the sanded inn, when those who had parted in the spring of youth should again drink a cup of kindness in their age.

  • The sultan was very pleased at what he had brought, and had him go often.

  • Hippolytus begged her for a reply to the letter he had brought.

  • Further, we had no breeding cattle or horses, which would not live in this veld, and only the ammunition and goods that I had brought with me.

  • Now when I left my wagons I had brought with me that same Purdey rifle with which I had shot the geese in the match against Pereira, choosing it because it was so light to carry.

  • Pieter Retief caught sight of me being helped out of the cart by my father and Hans, whom I had brought to load, and for a moment looked puzzled.

  • I seated myself on a camp-stool, which I had brought with me, for my leg was still too weak to allow me to stand long, and waited.

  • He took the end she had been holding, tied on the fresh cord he had brought, and again lowered away.

  • He drew from his pocket a small thick volume he had brought as the companion of his journey, and read as he ate.

  • My brother told me he had brought you," she said.

  • Since I read the letters which Captain Bell of the 'Adventuress' had brought me before I sailed for Hispaniola, I had heard no tidings from my home, and what tidings awaited me now?

  • For now the cup was dashed from his lips, seeing that having come into my father's lands, he had brought it about that Lily was to be married to him by might if no other means would serve.

  • I am informed that at present no other treasure is to be found in the cathedrals of Spain than a few paltry ornaments and plated utensils.

  • That he will leave Spain I do not believe, or if he leave it, it will be only to return, for he is bewitched about this treasure.

  • The girl then observed, that as it was Sunday, I should perhaps like to see some books, and without waiting for a reply she produced them.

  • Like Wilkes, he had brought on himself the censure even of men of pleasure by the peculiar grossness of his immorality, and by the obscenity of his writings.

  • In his youth he had brought in reform bills.

  • There was Thenardier; there was the unknown man who had brought him, Marius, back to M.

  • Combeferre distributed the cartridges from the basket which he had brought in.

  • I had brought letters of introduction, and who lived about seven miles off.

  • At this he seemed somewhat disturbed, and asked if we had brought a letter from the Anak Agong (Son of Heaven) which is the title of the Rajah of Lombock.

  • Reaching Palembang on the 8th of November, I was lodged by the Doctor, to whom I had brought a letter of introduction, and endeavoured to ascertain where I could find a good locality for collecting.

  • She wouldn't understand the hint, but followed me to a sideboard, where I went to lay my bonnet, and importuned me in a whisper to give her directly what I had brought.

  • I had brought some of my nicest books for him: he asked me to read a little of one, and I was about to comply, when Earnshaw burst the door open: having gathered venom with reflection.

  • He also, we are told, built another city, and called it after the name of a favorite dog, Peritas, which he had brought up himself.

  • And when he had brought him to a high place, upon the top of mount Phasga, Balaam built seven altars, and laying on every one a calf and a ram, 23:15.

  • And when he had eaten and drunk, he saddled his ass for the prophet, whom he had brought back.

  • And David leaving the vessels which he had brought, under the care of the keeper of the baggage, ran to the place of the battle, and asked if all things went well with his brethren.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "had brought" 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:
    catch hold; central office; had already; had always; had asked; had called; had chosen; had determined; had enough; had finished; had found; had given; had gone; had intended; had known; had left; had made; had never been able; had never before seen; had not; had received from the; had returned; had seemed; had succeeded; had thought; other sects