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Example sentences for "had fallen"

  • When we had done the mass disentangled itself and I was able to raise my head from the shoulder of someone on whom I had fallen, lifting him, or her--which was it?

  • It gave me quite a start to recognise him there, for it showed I was in a new land, and since he was going so cheerfully about his business, whatever it might chance to be, there must be some way out of this accursed pit in which I had fallen.

  • This strange news of his lost father soon roused the prince from the stupid fit into which he had fallen.

  • Having said this much, I need hardly say that I had fallen in love with her.

  • And yet, engrossed as I was with my extremely difficult and doubtful position, I could not help feeling deeply interested in the people among whom I had fallen.

  • On hearing this he saw the trap he had fallen into; saw and trembled.

  • Captain Dodd, as he understood, had fallen down in the street in a sudden fit: "but as for the mania, that is to be attributed to an insufficient evacuation of blood while under the apoplectic coma.

  • Human nature is made thus; the other tender emotions of his youth, if he had ever had any, had fallen into an abyss.

  • This professor, when he was a young man, had one day seen a chambermaid's gown catch on a fender; he had fallen in love in consequence of this accident.

  • Nevertheless, athwart this revery into which he had fallen he had heard for some time a peculiar noise.

  • Thought was arrested by utter bewilderment, now its old narrow pathway was closed, and affection seemed to have died under the bruise that had fallen on its keenest nerves.

  • The Christmas carol, with its hammer-like rhythm, had fallen on his ears as strange music, quite unlike a hymn, and could have none of the effect Dolly contemplated.

  • He sank into silence so profound that Aunt Hester began to be afraid he had fallen into a trance.

  • Mr. Pendyce tripped; his bucket rolled out of his hand; he lay where he had fallen, too exhausted to move.

  • He had done wrong; had startled her, had fallen short of chivalry!

  • A feeling of its being too dangerous to take a step in any direction, or hazard any remark, had fallen on them all.

  • So that it would have been nothing new to me the other night to fall into an architectural dream if that were all, and yet I have to tell of things strange and new that befell me after I had fallen asleep.

  • He had been a young man fair and comely, with hair flaxen almost to whiteness; he lay there in his clothes as he had fallen, the hands crossed over his breast and holding a rush cross.

  • The Archduke Leopold, brother to the Emperor, assumed the command, in order to repair the errors of his predecessor Gallas, and to raise the army from the low ebb to which it had fallen.

  • Banner now saw that he had fallen into a dangerous snare, from which escape appeared impossible.

  • His eyes were closed; and his limbs, which had once been those of a powerful man, had fallen away, making the joints stand out.

  • He examined it carefully by the firelight to see how much it held: then he took a small draught, and examined it again to see how much it had fallen; and put it back in his breast pocket.

  • There was one small wound just under the left bosom; and one on the crown of the head; which must have been made after he had fallen down.

  • But I bethought me that my father was an austere man, whom I had vexed beyond bearing with my late wicked follies, into which, since the death of my mother, I had fallen.

  • At first my mind was benumbed, like my body; but the pain of my face, smarting with switch and scratch of the boughs through which I had fallen, awoke me to thought and fear.

  • Then I knew that he had fallen into my trap, and, weak as I was, I could have laughed to think of his face, when the words I had written came out in place of the words he had bidden me write.

  • Crassus was killed by a Parthian, called Pomaxathres; others say, by a different man, and that Pomaxathres only cut off his head and right hand after he had fallen.

  • But it happened, that Eurotas at that time was swollen to a great height with the snow that had fallen, and made the passage very difficult to the Thebans, not only by its depth, but much more by its extreme coldness.

  • For Antiochus, it appears, had fallen passionately in love with Stratonice, the young queen, who had already made Seleucus the father of a son.

  • Extremely fatigued, his body swollen, and his face scorched and weatherbeaten, he had fallen down, and a deep sleep had overpowered him.

  • The plaster covering the houses, soaked by the rain, had fallen away in many places from their walls, which from white had become streaked and spotted, whilst old reeds served to thatch them.

  • Yes, he was lying in bed, and in precisely the position in which he had fallen asleep.

  • They described the elephant as perfectly helpless from his wound, and they imagined that he had fallen in the thick bushes on the opposite bank of the river.

  • In a few minutes the shower cleared off, and on examining the place where the elephant had fallen, we found a large pool of clotted blood.

  • As I before mentioned, we could not cross the river on account of the torrent, but in a few days it subsided, and the elephant was found lying dead in the spot where they supposed he had fallen.

  • This land, of present mournful interest, had fallen back, owing to the negligence or abandonment of its owners, into the wild character of primitive nature.

  • I was seated in the room which precedes the Salon des Ambassadeurs, and, tired of being jostled by so many noble personages, I had fallen into a vague reverie, when I scented near me the perfume of the lady in black.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "had fallen" 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 acquired; had already; had been fixed since; had ever; had fallen; had felt; had formerly; had given; had heard; had learned; had lost; had loved; had never; had none; had one; had picked; had reason; had returned; had ridden; had seemed; had spent; had suffered; had yet; living body; shall marry; sodium carbonate