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Example sentences for "had happened"

  • When they all fled precipitately, he himself also was carried away with the crowd, as had happened to Varro at the battle of Cannae, and to many other generals.

  • The maid represented to Sukra everything as it had happened.

  • On arriving with her at Hastinapura, he told Santanu everything as it had happened.

  • And she told him everything that had happened.

  • And summoned again by the Brahmana with the aid of his science, Kacha appearing before his preceptor and his daughter told everything as it had happened.

  • And returning in joy to his uncle and mother and touching their feet, he recounted to them everything as it had happened.

  • And, whatever the result might be, he would write to his rival as soon as he returned to the Springs, and inform him of it, and would also explain how he had happened to be here with Miss March.

  • He was very much annoyed, not only that this thing had happened to him, but that it had happened at such an inauspicious moment.

  • I was living in the house where it had happened, three years before, & I put it on paper at once while it was fresh in my mind, & its pathos still straining at my heartstrings.

  • He said that he had been taken ill at Gaganov's lodging, where he had happened to go early in the morning.

  • This is word for word what Stepan Trofimovitch said to me one night on returning home after he had happened to witness a fire and was still under the influence of the spectacle.

  • It had happened so often that he had grown to trust this profounder inspiration of his sleep.

  • She could not see that anything had happened, and Heaven forbid that he should let her see.

  • His first feeling was that it had happened to himself.

  • It had happened sometimes, as he knew, that these magnetizing tricks had led to infatuation on the part of the subjects of the wonderful influence.

  • Some said they were firing in the hope of raising the corpse; but many who heard the bells ringing their crazy peals guessed what had happened.

  • It had happened to him many times going home not to notice the road by which he was going, and he was accustomed to walk like that.

  • What was it had happened to work this revolution in him?

  • When he had happened to imagine all this beforehand, he had sometimes thought that he would be very much afraid.

  • His bitterness grew more and more intense, and if he had happened to meet Mr. Luzhin at the moment, he might have murdered him.

  • A new, pure happiness had come to them; they could almost forget all that had happened.

  • It showed how bad things were, that she dared not tell what had happened, not even to Inga!

  • No, he had only thought how beautifully everything had happened.

  • She divided the occurrences into two--what had happened and what had been said; what had been said and what had happened: she did not know which was the worst.

  • The two sitting in the other house saw them coming across the yard, hand in hand, walking so fast that they felt sure something had happened.

  • When the rich man's wife heard this, she ran back in haste and told her husband how it had happened.

  • They walked the whole night, until in the morning they arrived at the mill, and then the maiden told her father everything exactly as it had happened.

  • If I had even suspected that the idea in question was borrowed, I should have disclaimed originality, or mentioned the coincidence, as I once did in a case where I had happened to hit on an idea of Swift's.

  • They wondered how the great destruction had happened, with the city being so well guarded.

  • The duchess went back to her chambers and found Tirant there, and she told him everything that had happened.

  • The messenger told him everything that had happened in the camp, and how the princess had gone armed into the Moors' tents and had captured a black, and that she was holding him under guard.

  • What would you think if so and so had happened?

  • Then the king's son set out, and thus it happened as it had happened before, till he entered a thick wood near his father's house.

  • In time she told them all that had happened to her, and they didn't know what to advise her to do.

  • Marjory, too excited to act like a blushing bride, took up the story and told all that had happened.

  • The remainder of his posse deserted the red-hot stove and drew near with the instinctive feeling that something dreadful had happened.

  • And when the people realized what had happened, everybody roared.

  • That was now fourteen months ago, but Sherston, standing there, remembered as if it had happened yesterday, his first sight of the girl who was to become his wife to-morrow.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "had happened" 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:
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