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Example sentences for "had got"

  • I wanted to know about Miss Tita--how she was and where she was--but I asked him no more questions till we had got upstairs.

  • As soon as I had got my rooms arranged and could give the proper thought to the matter I surveyed the place with a clever expert and made terms for having it put in order.

  • I had got into a pickle for him--as if he needed it!

  • Heracleides insisted that this was all he had got by his trafficking.

  • He went and reported that he had seen no watchfires, but he had got a man, whom he brought back with him, carrying a Persian bow and quiver, and a sagaris or battleaxe like those worn by the Amazons.

  • This whole body he had got by request from Tissaphernes, and in return he undertook to deliver up the Hellenes to Tissaphernes.

  • It is hard to say what he did not do, he was so at his wit's end, sending us embassies and begging for a truce, and furnishing provisions the while, until he had got it.

  • Eric played warily, for he found his man was of right good mettle, and also he had no sweet memory of the blow that he had got; so this bout neither Little John nor the Lincoln man caught a stroke within his guard.

  • Let me see," and he touched his forefinger to his forehead in thought, humming to himself, and stopping ever and anon to fit what he had got to what he searched for in his mind.

  • Well, John was to come and see us act this evening, but just as we were starting he said he wouldn't; he had got an interesting book and a cigar.

  • They treated Cutler with a certain solemn attention, and pointed out that he had got a slight slash on the hand.

  • It is vain to say that he felt as if he had got into a dream; but this time he felt quite certain that he had got into a book.

  • I always feel when I have talked with a child as if I had got as near to the angels as one can get on earth.

  • When he came out he had a little bouquet of geranium leaves and lemon verbena which he had got.

  • However, luckily for the dealer, he had got a good start, and Cullingworth was persuaded to come back and wash his face.

  • It was at the time when the worst pinch was over, and when we had got back as far as butter and occasional tobacco, with a milkman calling daily; which gives you a great sense of swagger when you have not been used to it.

  • In fact, in this last letter he HAD got over it by his tale about the grate and the maid.

  • At the same time, from what David Hull said she had got an impression of a something different from the ordinary human being in this queer Victor Dorn.

  • He had got a good strong leash upon his vanity--and a muzzle, too.

  • Jane, moving about in the world with a good mind eager to improve, had got a horror of a woman's going to pieces--and that was what Martha was doing.

  • The old soldier or professional pillager laughed, and confessed he had got so used to her, that he forgot at times Ghysbrecht had a prior claim.

  • Giles parried this by promising to ride out of the town the opposite way, and not turn the mule's head towards Sevenbergen till he had got rid of the curious.

  • When he had got a fair bunch, they returned to the house.

  • At any rate, when he had got it, he would not want it--that he said himself; he would want the other thing that she could give him.

  • She was his conscience; and he felt, somehow, he had got a conscience that was too much for him.

  • He kissed the palm of his hand where she had touched it, and went home, happy in the sense that he had got nearer to the attainment of his aims that evening than during the last two months.

  • In Turkey he had got into a harem; in India he had hunted on an elephant, and now in Russia he wished to taste all the specially Russian forms of pleasure.

  • I'd noticed lately that Mary and I had got out of the habit of talking to each other--noticed it in a vague sort of way that irritated me (as vague things will irritate one) when I thought of it.

  • They said we went like windmills, and that nearly every one of the blows we made was enough to kill a bullock if it had got home.

  • Danglars alone was content and joyous--he had got rid of an enemy and made his own situation on the Pharaon secure.

  • Now I recollect," said the afflicted old father; "my poor boy told me yesterday he had got a small case of coffee, and another of tobacco for me!

  • Dantes turned and perceived that they had got out to sea.

  • XVII Except on Sundays, the father rarely ate with the rest of the family.

  • It was followed first by a single cry, and then by a hubbub of voices.

  • It happen now and then that a larger group was formed for some unusual exploit and that Keith became part of it by chance rather than choice.

  • These little events, coming one after the other, left me very jangled in my nerves, and I could see from my companion's petulant manner that his own patience had got to a low ebb.

  • I pushed him off, but we were glad when we had got clear of them and safe out of the park.

  • However, once we had got out of our narrow haven of refuge into the wider atmosphere of everyday life, our normal energy came gradually back to us once more.

  • He had got through an hour of the time, in the room with the dead man.

  • He had got rid of the Bride, and had acquired her fortune without endangering his life; but now, for a death by which he had gained nothing, he had evermore to live with a rope around his neck.

  • And he had got no compensation from her in Money, yet.

  • When he had got one of the matches, he waited before he struck it on the coarse wooden table, and listened intently again, without knowing why.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "had got" 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:
    always said; had become; had determined; had done; had ever been before; had expected; had for; had gone; had hoped; had killed; had meant; had met; had never heard before; had not been long; had picked; had plenty; had returned; had ridden; had some; had something; had spent; had time; had written; had yet; leaved clover; more years