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Example sentences for "had called"

  • According to the well-known story, he ordered the nobles whom he had called to him in his last moments to be executed immediately after his decease, that so at least his death might be attended by universal mourning.

  • Such was the illuminating instruction combined with burning denunciation that these men had called forth by their futile attempt to convict Jesus on the charge of Sabbath desecration.

  • The Count caught the popular contagion, and after exchanging tears and kisses with patriots whom a week before he had called canaille, he swore eternal fidelity to the Republic.

  • He had called frequently at The Poplars to talk over business matters, which seemed of late to require a deal of talking.

  • The approach of the young girl and the dread that she was about to lay her hand upon me had called up the same train of effects which the moment of terror and pain had already occasioned.

  • But he had called just at the lucky moment for Mr. Peckham's object.

  • And so the simple confession he meant to make would at length evolve itself logically, and hold by a natural connection to the first agreeable train of thought which he had called up.

  • He had invaded a stage-box at the theatre where she happened to be sitting; he had made an invitation to call upon her at home impossible to withhold, and he had called.

  • He had called her "Mademoiselle" too; could anything be more charming?

  • He had called at the house once or twice--that vast florid pile, which had always looked lackadaisical rather than cruel; but it had refused to admit him.

  • Touched by Wurzelmann’s devoted efforts, he had called him servule, or the “little slave.

  • She was playing motifs from his quartette, his “Eleanore Quartette” as he had called it.

  • He laid his slouch hat on a chair, and said he would like to beg their pardon if he had called at an inopportune hour.

  • Why had she not gone with him and attempted the shorter way the quick way, he had called it?

  • He had called on me immediately on my arrival, and I learned that he held a very poor appointment as censor of German newspapers.

  • He had called on me a few months ago to offer his co-operation in the translation, of my operas, on the introduction of Ollivier, his colleague at the Paris bar.

  • Full of the favourable impression he had made upon me when we met in London in 1855, which was strengthened by a friendly correspondence he had kept up for a time, I had called at his house as soon as I arrived in Paris.

  • Several trees were now seen, each one festooned with what Sue had called "whiskers.

  • One of the business men, on whom he had called, had brought him back in the car.

  • For madame, my wife, had called to me more or less often in the twin of that voice with its slurring deliberateness and its insolent disregard of the pitfall accents of a foreign tongue.

  • It was this that I meant when I had called Pierre, dull of wit as he seemed, the most useful of my men.

  • Onanguissé had called me daughter, and I knew that if I could find his people I was safe.

  • To this sage observation of the grocer, I replied, by making to him a full disclosure of my object in visiting Sydney; and that I had called on himself to learn, if possible, something concerning my own mother.

  • He had called to see Captain Nowell on business; and the latter, not being at home, the old steward had asked to see his wife.

  • More than that, I had called at the house itself--on that occasion, when Captain Nowell accompanied me to the Bank.

  • And then, as he had called her by her Christian name, as he had exacted the promise, there had been a tone of affection in his voice that she had almost felt to be too warm.

  • He had called her "dainty," meaning to imply by the epithet that she was one of the butterflies of the day, caring for nothing but sunshine and an opportunity of fluttering her silly wings.

  • At this moment he began to regret that he had called in the assistance of his friend, and that he had not left the affair altogether in the hands of that much more satisfactory, but still more painful, agent, Mr. Bozzle.

  • Absence too had done more really to touch Tom's heart with respect to Winny Cavana than to wean him from the "saucy slut," as he had called her in pique on his departure.

  • It was the first time I had called him by his name.

  • Apparently, however, Kennedy and I were bad subjects, for after some minutes of this he gave it up, saying that the spirits had no revelation to make to- night in the matter in which we had called.

  • He bowed politely to us, but it was evident why he had called, as his eye followed Alma about the room.

  • The upshot had been that he had called up Chicago and talked for a long time with Professor Clark, a former classmate of ours who was now in the technology school of the university out there.

  • He had called twice at the side door of Johnson's, but they had told him that she was not in; and, hampered as he was with the children, he had not had time to call again.

  • Violet, since they had to call the Baby something, had called it Dorothy.

  • The recollections that the old man had called up found their way tenderly to Sarah's heart.

  • Cairns' mind moved swiftly from one to another of the five women he had called together to meet his friend.

  • Wheeling, they found that the man had seen the end--as he had called out in that horrible echoing voice.

  • Her highest thinking it had called, as his words had done.

  • What he had said about the pictures, especially before the one he had called The Race Mother, had revealed his processes of mind, and made her feel very small for a while.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "had called" 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:
    had anticipated; had asked; had been fixed since; had bought; had ceased; had chosen; had determined; had enough; had fallen; had given; had got; had himself; had killed; had little; had lived; had often; had only; had reached; had recourse; had said; had time; had tried; had used; heart tells; next election; yards north