It was long since I had known him so pleased with himself, and only too long since he had had such reason.
The man he dreaded was the officer he had known in old days; there were ever so many of him at the Front; and it was to minimize this risk that we went out second-class at the beginning of February.
My only fear was lest I might run up against one or other whom I had known of old.
On the doorstep he met a youth he had known by sight at the university: it was the minister's son--the worst-behaved of all the students.
If I had known my poor wife was going to die, I would have done whatever she wanted.
Donal told him that Davie, of all the boys he had known, was far the quickest, and that just because he was morally the most teachable.
O'Connell he had known in young Dublin days;--and surely no man could well venerate another less!
Dunsford attached himself to Philip merely because he was the first person he had known at St. Luke's.
He thought that Clutton was the most interesting of all the people he had known in Paris.
CVI Philip avoided the places he had known in happier times.
He walked along the Boulevard du Montparnasse as though he had known it all his life, and by virtuous perseverance he had learnt to drink absinthe without distaste.
He was quite excited at the thought of talking his fill with someone, and he was wretched when Hayward wrote to say that the spring was lovelier than ever he had known it in Italy, and he could not bear to tear himself away.
In the course of my rambles I met sundry natives whom I had known in the old days, some of them a long while ago.
Even at that distance it was impossible to mistake his figure, which was like no other that I had known in the world.
With one man whom I had known in past days and who recognized me, I did manage to have a short talk.
It thinned by degrees, and through the veil of smoke I perceived something else, namely, a woman very like one whom once I had known.
Willy went away, to join them; but if he had known how I should miss him in our little bed at night, he never would have left me, I am sure.
Kit was thankful for this indulgence, and sat reading the church catechism very attentively (though he had known it by heart from a little child), until he heard the key in the lock, and the man entered again.
He had knownher do that, before now, though in the deepest sleep the while.
As for the lady, we did not then know whether she was his long-lost grandmother that he had known in India or not, though we thought she seemed youngish for the part.
But at once he caught up the other wet jacket and put it on another place, and of course it did the trick as he had known it would do.
Yet if he had known of the other things that were in the bottom of that moat he would have kept his boots on.
And filled with this agreeable thought, the weary beavers (or explorers, Polar or otherwise) fell asleep.
Oswald, as the pig got on to a bed of yellow pansies close against the red house wall.
Often Amory met wives whom he had known as debutantes, and looking intently at them imagined that he found something in their faces which said: "Oh, if I could only have gotten you!
Scurrying back to Minneapolis to see a girl he had known as a child seemed the interesting and romantic thing to do, so without compunction he wired his mother not to expect him.
It was some one hehad known at Princeton; he had no idea of the name.
All that remained of the charm and personality of the Dick Humbird he had known--oh, it was all so horrible and unaristocratic and close to the earth.
I had known a little, but not to the very deep, of the man's pride and purpose in this trust.
For he had known Steve, and he had covered Shorty with earth.
And Scipio talked away about the mines he had known.
If hehad known I would be detained I don't believe he would have asked it of me.
I wouldn't have done that if I had known what I was doing.
I didn't know that, and I wouldn't have shown it to you purposely if I had known it; but it doesn't alter the fact that you should know it.
She found it a great improvement over that which she had known on Phinney's Hill at Ostable.
He had known of Mary's presence in the house; after the affair was settled John Keith told his family what he had done, facing with serene philosophy his wife's displeasure and prophecies of certain regrets.
Captain Palliser felt this curiously, though he could not have said what he would have expected from him if he had known it would be his whim to appear.
I wish I had knownher a little--if she really loved Jem.
His father had more than once said he was a "common American lad," and he had known he was.
He had known that he had been resented and looked down upon as a characteristically American product.
Here loomed vivid and vital on the walls those women of Rossetti whom I had known but as shades.
It was so like something I had known, so recognisable and, oh, recognising, that I was lost in wonder.
When he spoke with reverence of this and that great man whom he had known, he did not thus waft and plump me; for I, too, revered those names.
Ernest could not deny this, and admitted that Paul would almost certainly have condemned tobacco in good round terms if he had known of its existence.
He had more liberty now than he had known heretofore.
If he had known, he would perhaps have played his part less successfully.
Vogelstein had time to wonder whether she could be one of the girls he had known at Dresden; but he presently reflected that they would now be much older than that.
Pandora apparently had not hitherto examined this monument, and our young man wished he had known, the evening before, of her omission, so that he might have offered to be her initiator.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "had known" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
