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Example sentences for "had gone"

  • There was a minute or two of silence; for Peony, whose short legs were never weary, had gone on a pilgrimage again to the other side of the garden.

  • He had refused to see it, and when he had gone to look at it at last it had been, such a weak wretched thing that everyone had been sure it would die in a few days.

  • He had gone on rubbing his rust-red hair in a puzzled way, but a nice comforted look had begun to grow in his blue eyes.

  • Mary remembered what he had asked her the day she had gone to his room.

  • Mrs. Craven was a very lovely young lady," he had gone on rather hesitatingly.

  • When he had gone away Mr. Craven sat a few moments holding them in his hand and looking at the lake.

  • There was no dog at th' door to bite thee," he answered.

  • She had heard it twice now, and sometime she would find out.

  • It was the first time Mary had heard of them, either, but even at this stage she had begun to realize that, queer as he was, Colin had read about a great many singular things and was somehow a very convincing sort of boy.

  • I could have kissed her when she returned the lace to sight, very much as it had gone down.

  • I had gone out on the little porch and stood gazing over the expanse of forest and waters lighted by the afterglow.

  • But he had gone no distance at all before Polly Ann, with three springs, was at his shoulder.

  • Monsieur Vigo was no spy, hence he had gone first to St. Louis.

  • And ere Kentucky became a State, in 1792, I had gone as delegate to more than one of the Danville Conventions.

  • I'd left off thinking about going home--it had gone out o' my mind.

  • Mr. Irwine, after seating his sister Anne, had gone to the abbey gallery, as he had agreed with Arthur beforehand, to see how the merriment of the cottagers was prospering.

  • Lisbeth had cried so piteously at the thought of leaving Adam that he had gone to Hetty and asked her if, for the love of him, she would put up with his mother's ways and consent to live with her.

  • Not much remained to him now of the classifications and phraseology which he had gone to the trouble of memorizing, in that far-off time, but he still looked at buildings with a kind of professional consciousness.

  • The youngsters had planned all its routes and halts and details of time and connections, and he had gone along, with cheerful placidity, to look at the things they bade him observe, and to pay the bills.

  • With ready shrewdness he had gone out, and met the emergency, and made it the servant of his own purposes.

  • The formalities of this final transfer of shares had been dictated to the former, and he had gone off on the business, before the Broker arrived.

  • Upon reflection, he had gone to bed rather earlier the previous evening than usual.

  • William, who was a tall lad for his years, but very sensitive, had gone pale, and was looking in a sort of horror at his father.

  • When he had gone, Morel, left alone, felt savage.

  • Evidently the children had not been wakened, or had gone to sleep again.

  • But he had gone to pit to work, and to be sent home again spoilt his temper.

  • When he had gone, they sighed with relief.

  • Gaarge" Lunsden, having spent five years of his youth labouring heavily for sixteen shillings a week, had gone to "Meriker" and had earned there eight shillings a day.

  • If her ladyship had come and ordered it to be done, he would have thought the poor thing had gone mad.

  • He had gone out to the West with the intention of working hard and using his hands as well as his brains; he had not been squeamish; he had, in fact, laboured like a ploughman; and to be obliged to give in had been galling and bitter.

  • From the poor parsonage he had gone to a market gardener, and had evidently liked the work better, hard and unceasing as it had been, because he had been among flowers again.

  • The only reason why I can mind the man is that he came back here to the next year's fair, and told me quite private-like that if a woman ever asked for him I was to say he had gone to--where?

  • He had gone on thence into the court, and inquired of a man whom he saw unpacking china from a crate if Miss Le Sueur was living there.

  • Henchard it appeared, had gone a little way past the inn before he had noticed his acquaintance of the previous evening.

  • I looked in the study but, though he had been there, he had gone.

  • It was as if the blood, no longer needed for the working of the heart, had gone to make the harshness of death as little rude as might be.

  • When, an hour or two after, the Count came quietly into the room, his coming awakened me, for I had gone to sleep on the sofa.

  • When we had gone about a mile, I was tired with the heavy walking and sat down to rest.

  • But now, in this Valley of Humiliation, poor Christian was hard put to it; for he had gone but a little way, before he espied a foul fiend coming over the field to meet him; his name is Apollyon.

  • Only the little grim, gray, old man knew that he had gone, or why, or whither.

  • Behind the swarthy Mountain the sun had gone down in waveless gold.

  • He had gone to the barber's to be shaved, and his shaggy grey hair had been trimmed and smoothed.

  • When Charity, in response to Harney's message, had gone to meet him at the Creston pool her heart had been so full of mortification and anger that his first words might easily have estranged her.

  • The feverish exaltation of the night before had dropped, and she said to herself that he had gone away, indifferently, almost callously, and that now her life would lapse again into the narrow rut out of which he had lifted it.

  • The morning after her parting from Harney, when she came down from her room, Verena told her that her guardian had gone off to Worcester and Portland.

  • We have both remembered what we heard about his shutting himself up alone with his pictures and making people believe he had gone away.

  • He had gone to India, because a man he was obliged to speak to had gone there to hunt, and no one knew when he would return.

  • The Rat swung himself into the group and looked as if he had gone crazy.

  • Marco could wait until he had gone by, and then come out into the light and look up and down the road and the cross streets.

  • Did it very well, too, no doubt, and without thinking much about it either, except afterwards to brag of what he had gone through in his time, perhaps.

  • When the manager, escorted by the pilgrims, all of them armed to the teeth, had gone to the house, this chap came on board.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    damage caused; had been; had before; had but; had chosen; had done; had forgotten; had great; had heard; had hitherto; had killed; had looked; had meant; had nothing; had now; had once; had one; had picked; had sent; had spoken; had started; had suffered; had time; had told; had won; solemn tone