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Example sentences for "had his"

  • He held out his hand, but Jethro did not appear to see it,--he had his in his pockets.

  • He had his cargo on in a jiffy, clucked to his horses, and they turned into the familiar road to Coniston just as the sun was dipping behind the south end of the mountain.

  • He had his dinner in the big walnut dining room all alone, and after it he smoked his father's cigars and paced up and down the big hall, watching the clock.

  • She said nothing as she raised her face to his and kissed him and clung to him in the little parlor, but he knew, and he had his reward.

  • Years and philosophy, of which he had his share, had dimmed the recollection of his defeat at the 'Hotch Potch'; and now in his thoughts it was enshrined as the Queen of Clubs.

  • Imbued with patriarchal instincts, he had his eye on everybody and everything.

  • He had his representatives in each parish of his district, and through them he supervised the police, the preservation of order, and the recruiting of the army.

  • We had not heard Fred sing since he tried to charm cholera victims in the Bundesrath's fo'castle, and, like the rest of us, he had his rights.

  • I stood there telling him things about Germany and Germans, and what I'd do to help his personal reputation with the home folks, until I guessed he had his craw as near full as he could stand it without having me arrested.

  • But we would not tell him that tale until we had his own.

  • He had his latchkey, so he went in without making any noise, delighted at the idea of the surprise he was going to give her.

  • He washed down his cheese with a small bottle of burgundy, had his after-dinner cup of coffee, a thing which he rarely took, and finally a little pony of brandy.

  • As betrothed husband of Lucilla, he had his right of entry, during her residence in her aunt's house.

  • He had his reply to it ready, for all that.

  • He had his "alibi" to appeal to, and his character to appeal to; and nobody doubted the result.

  • Trafford had not quite that, but he had his profession of the law.

  • He had his fiddle to his chin, and the bow hoverin' above it.

  • In 1407 and the following years, he had his father's murder uppermost in his mind.

  • He had his face so perfectly under control, that few could say more, in distinct terms, of its expression, than that it smiled or that it pondered.

  • Oh, how much better than this that he had loved her as he had his boy, and lost her as he had his boy, and laid them in their early grave together!

  • He had got himself in hand by this time; every faculty was alert; he had his chance to ask for pardon!

  • Still, none the less, he had his point to make--for which he took another instant.

  • The more I learn of his brief term of rule, the more I learn to admire him, and to wish we had his like.

  • All day he had his liberty, went to the Baptist Mission, and walked about viewing the negroes, who were "like the sand on the seashore" for number.

  • Mind I don't apologise for Isaac; he had his faults.

  • I assure you, we lived better than those that were born to 2OOO pounds a year as long as he had his liberty.

  • So, in fine, he had his will of me in this particular.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    had already; had asked; had been; had begun; had come; had determined; had enough; had expected; had formerly; had gone; had his; had intended; had learned; had long; had managed; had never seen her; had one; had reason; had returned; had shown; had spent; had used; had wherever books are; had written; otherwise known; then proceeds