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Example sentences for "had died"

  • The Emperor, Maria Theresa's husband, had died in 1764; his son, Joseph II.

  • Young Colonel Pickering, there mentioned, had died in Dec.

  • Here he learned that his coadjutor, Alphonso de Paiva, had died in that city.

  • The wife of Nicholas, whom he had left pregnant, had died, in giving birth to a son, who had been named Marco.

  • Day by day and night by night I grew to hate her-- Would to God that she or I had died!

  • But his interest in the woman was dead, had died out in the Rains, and, mentally, he was abusing her for her amazing indiscretion.

  • The physician declared that he had died at about midnight.

  • The men buried the horse at the place where he had died of hunger.

  • I did not attempt to make him understand that it could easily happen that the famished animals had eaten their master, after he had died suddenly in his hut.

  • If he had died, I should only have been concerned for that the world had lost a light; but the man that I am concerned for now was one that never was good, therefore such an one who is not dead only, but damned.

  • Briggs, the medical officer attached to the expedition, had died in February; and only three or four of the original crew of the vessel survived.

  • To add to Park's difficulties, all the carpenters whom he had brought with him from England had died, before their services were needed.

  • If he had died I should have thrown myself into the water below the mill.

  • The clatter of the hoofs of horses had ceased, the rumble of drays carrying their night freights, the shouts of the newsboys making sensation out of rumours made in a newspaper office, had died away.

  • He had died, probably, soon after I left him, and had dismissed me from some growing instinct which informed him that his last agonies were at hand.

  • He had died by strangulation, and the cord was still tightened about his neck.

  • By causes as natural as ever extinguished life's spark in the frail lamp of clay, he had died out of sight--under the black veil.

  • No; he had died apparently by a more horrid death--by that of crucifixion.

  • Milne fall, but months later we heard that he had died of wounds in a Turkish hospital.

  • That night we learned that our commanding officer, Colonel Morrison, had died in hospital at Alexandria.

  • A report was circulated, emanating from the château, that he had died of grief caused by Mme.

  • If at that time you had not repented, and I had died in the meanwhile, my soul would have gone to hell without fail, because of my foolish conduct towards you.

  • When the Regent of the Shogun was murdered, some years since, outside the castle of Yedo, by a legal fiction it was given out that he had died in his own palace, in order that his son might succeed to his estates.

  • The dead man had murdered his employer, and, having been condemned to death by crucifixion, had died in prison before the sentence could be carried out.

  • I had died--I had died, in my innocent girlhood!

  • It was sufficient that he had died satisfied in seeing her married to a great noble, and that she had been able, in his last days, to relieve him from the distress of debt and embarrassment which had doubtless contributed to shorten his life.

  • She entered the room where he had died, and a cold shudder passed over her.

  • The poor old dandy, in his paint and his wig and his padding, had died at his wife's feet, protesting his love for her to the last.

  • He saw at once that some grievous thing had happened; and presently with sobs and tears she told him that her grandmother had died a few days before, that she had been that day buried, and that she knew not what she was to do.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    had already; had arrived; had been; had brought from the; had committed; had done; had ever; had forgotten; had formed; had found; had learned; had left; had loved; had made; had managed; had not; had not been able; had observed; had ridden; had shown; had spoken; had the good fortune; had thought; had wherever books are; still remains; under which