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Example sentences for "had caught"

  • But, to own the truth, I was little better than an icicle, and began to be suspicious that I had caught a fearful cold.

  • He had caught them in this newly formed rapid, the salmon being close by the side.

  • He had caught a trout on the previous Monday.

  • He had caught hundreds--thousands--and had sold them well.

  • In a few weeks it brought out its five or six young from the hole he had caught it in, and for several years it returned each season to breed in the same hole until the tree was blown down, after which the bird was seen no more.

  • At first I used to go to any bush where I had caught sight of a bird and sit down within a few yards of it and wait until the little hideling's shyness wore off, and he would come out and start reeling.

  • He, the dying sinner, had caught, clearly and positively for one awful second in that sky, the flashing impression of a cross.

  • So she went on alone, while Follett stopped to clean the dozen trout he had caught.

  • In the second that she halted to turn and discover his trick he had caught her by the arm.

  • Directly he had caught a codgo fish, he threw it over his shoulder and went off home and asked whether the fish had arrived, but he only got laughed at for his folly.

  • The next day he went to see them and the otter came out of the tank and gave him a fish which it had caught, and the cat brought him some milk it had stolen, and that was the last he saw of them.

  • But that night when they had all gone to bed, Ledha's sister-in-law began to worry him to tell her what the leopard had said to him, when it had caught him.

  • One day when he came home with a fine basket of fish which he had caught he found that his father-in-law had come to pay them a visit.

  • Then he took the pieces to his master and explained that it had caught on the stump of a tree and got broken.

  • Although disheveled and very pale, Tarzan recognized her as the young woman whom he had caught staring at him on deck earlier in the day.

  • Tarzan saw nothing further of any of the actors in the little drama that he had caught a fleeting glimpse of until late in the afternoon of the last day of the voyage.

  • Up to that time, I think, I had caught nothing in all our pilgrimages.

  • I had caught sight of him once on Broadway as I was riding up town in an omnibus.

  • He had caught only an instantaneous glimpse of her face, but he had seen it with strange distinctness, as one sees an object by a flash of lightning; and he still saw it, as one seems still to see the object in the after-darkness.

  • It was a lovely morning, and the sunshine, as if it had caught a glitter from the floating points of ice on the river, poured in through a rear window and flooded the room with gold.

  • He had caught a glimpse of black-silk stocking above a white buckskin pump that somehow disturbed his poise.

  • All he had caught was a flicker of her eyes, as though she had thought to recognize him and then had changed her mind.

  • Well, he had caught up with himself; he would have to snap out of it.

  • And then in a flash I saw how they would sneer one and all, and how they would think that I had caught avidly at this opportunity of freeing myself from an undertaking into which a boastful mood had lured me.

  • Apparently, too, he was on very intimate terms with the Count, for in raising my glance I had caught him in the act of leaning over to whisper familiarly in Chatellerault's ear.

  • But in moving I had caught up by one of its legs the stool on which I had been sitting.

  • It was a "horrid dull town," she thought and with the consciousness of the angry white harbour which she had caught sight of on her arrival, her heart sank within her; but she bravely determined to put a good face on her sorrow.

  • He had caught a glimpse of her in the afternoon as he returned from Abersethin, the path to which led him through Essec Powell's fields.

  • It was Cardo, who, as he walked along the drive towards the house, had caught sight of a gleam of scarlet between the fir trees.

  • He had caught a glimpse of the back of a lady, who was just disappearing through one doorway as he was entering by another, and had taken her to be Madame Robine.

  • When Lacaille went off he had caught sight of a carrot lying on the ground, and having picked it up he was holding it tightly in his right hand.

  • When the cart had passed the end of the Rue du Roule he had caught a glimpse of the side entrance of Saint Eustache under the giant roofing of one of the market covered-ways.

  • When I opened my basket and showed him what I had caught, Peter looked surprised, and, taking up the trout, examined it.

  • This was a much larger fish than any I had caught, and I determined to try for him.

  • I opened my basket, and with great pride showed them the big trout I had caught.

  • There not being enough of water in the nulla to drown the buffalo, the Mugger soon found he had caught a Tartar; and after being well mauled by the buffalo's horns, he was fain to scuttle off and hide himself among the mud.

  • As she supposed, she found he had caught up the trick from example, and had not the knowledge whereby to remedy it.

  • It was as if he had caught a glimpse of the monster gibing at his elbow, goading him, goading them, both.

  • Before the thunder crashed above them he had caught her to him.

  • His eyes, travelling downwards, had caught sight of a cup pushed close to the blaze, and a plate of crumpets beside it.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "had caught" 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 arrived; had asked; had been; had but; had called; had determined; had ever; had formed; had formerly; had had; had learned; had managed; had never seen her; had not; had only; had passed; had reached; had risen; had risen from the; had spent; had thought; had you; last obliged; little master; quite clean; special delivery