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Example sentences for "had chosen"

  • She was his, he had chosen her, she had taken her place in the long line of Lansing women who had been loved, honoured, and probably deceived, by bygone Lansing men.

  • And Josue called twelve men, whom he had chosen out of the children of Israel, one out of every tribe, 4:5.

  • Until the day on which, giving commandments by the Holy Ghost to the apostles whom he had chosen, he was taken up.

  • He sent Moses his servant: Aaron the man whom he had chosen.

  • Hast thou not seen what this people hath spoken, saying: The two families which the Lord had chosen, are cast off: and they have despised my people, so that it is no more a nation before them?

  • He added, that his argument was chiefly an argument ad invidiam, and that all the applause he could hope for from clubs was scarcely worth the sacrifice which he had chosen to make.

  • Pettingill was no imitator, but he created an effect which was superbly in keeping with the period he had chosen.

  • He had chosen a seat beside an English duchess whose practice it was to appropriate the winnings of the more inexperienced players, and he was aware that many of his gold pieces were being deliberately stolen.

  • And there was little reluctance to help him in the wild career he had chosen.

  • He did not find the creek in the direction he had chosen, and returned to the beach, after a search of about an hour.

  • As Captain Walmsley had indicated this state-room for the use of Pillgrim, it was probable that he had chosen it on account of this means of egress.

  • Then the tears broke out afresh, and Somers continued to perform the holy office he had chosen.

  • Had it just occurred to him that the pretty doll whom he had chosen to be the partner of his life was a little wanting in the departments of head and heart?

  • I think, Mother," he said at length, "that I had chosen to go through with it.

  • He was heir of England under Henry's will, and might, if he had chosen it, have been a very formidable opponent of King James.

  • The ridge I had chosen seemed to sink after a mile or two to a moor which lay like a pocket in the uplands.

  • I did not like this espionage from the air, and I began to think less well of the countryside I had chosen for a refuge.

  • And I wondered if teachers like Atmananda were increasingly exploiting such a need in millions who, for whatever reasons, had chosen a path apart from conventional religion.

  • The rig was the vehicle I had chosen to exercise and exorcise my body and mind.

  • He had chosen a house on Cliffridge Avenue where, in the name of the Guru, we would fight evil forces and make millions happy.

  • And so, assuming that all was not destined and man had choice about all matters, he had chosen to check into this guest house in the center of Nongkai instead of going straight into Vientiane.

  • Blind herself as she would, she could not help perceiving that her father was not satisfied with the wife he had chosen.

  • Molly muttered something, as if to herself, but the squire might have heard it if he had chosen.

  • Mr Gibson had been compelled to face and acknowledge the fact that the wife he had chosen had a very different standard of conduct to that which he had upheld all his life, and had hoped to have seen inculcated in his daughter.

  • I thought it possible Fresnoy might be right, and if so, and the bay's manners were tolerable, it might do for mademoiselle better than the horse I had chosen.

  • For that seemed to be my only chance of evading the dangers I had chosen to encounter.

  • I could, if I had chosen, have torn you to pieces with bitter reproaches.

  • Oscar was much interested and asked me if I had chosen a place for his tomb.

  • I wanted a figurehead for my petition, and the figurehead I had chosen I could not get.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "had chosen" 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:
    fare thee; had asked; had been fixed since; had before; had bought; had come; had committed; had died; had given; had got; had his; had hitherto; had intended; had killed; had looked; had met; had never before seen; had none; had read; had risen from the; had seemed; had such; had told; had tried; had used; had you