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Example sentences for "had left"

  • I had left my latch-key at home, and my servant had to let me in.

  • As soon as he had left, he rushed to the screen and drew it back.

  • The surface seemed to be quite undisturbed and as he had left it.

  • It was just as he had left it, and in all seeming it might well be the very day he had left.

  • Returning that night to his camp at the mouth of Klondike, he found in it Kama, the Indian he had left at Dyea.

  • The ceremony was over, and he had left Dede to go inside and change into her riding-habit while he brought the horses.

  • The doctor hailed them and told them of the stores we had left, and where they were to find them.

  • He lay as we had left him, on his back, with his eyes open and one arm stretched out.

  • Hands lay as I had left him, all fallen together in a bundle and with his eyelids lowered as though he were too weak to bear the light.

  • He was lying very much as we had left him, only a little higher, and he seemed both weak and excited.

  • The isle was uninhabited; my shipmates I had left behind, and nothing lived in front of me but dumb brutes and fowls.

  • It was evident from his allusions that he meant to be away for some time, and he presently asked her if she would give instructions about packing and sending after him some winter clothes he had left at Givre.

  • He told himself that he could have borne an equal amount of pain, if only it had left Mrs. Leath's image untouched; but he could not bear to think of her as trivial or insincere.

  • I knew there to be none--but there was my rope, which would still be hanging where I had left it.

  • The ground was hard, and we had left no traces.

  • That is remotely true," I observed, very well pleased to find that I had left my mark on the fellow.

  • For more than a minute we stood there together; and I, even with my arm about her, summoned up what honour and conscience her beauty and the toils that I was in had left me.

  • The pain had been allayed for Dorothea, but it had left in her an awakened conjecture as to what Lydgate's marriage might be to him, a susceptibility to the slightest hint about Mrs. Lydgate.

  • I remained standing on the spot where he had left me, unwilling to depart, and yet unknowing why I should loiter there.

  • Not finding what he had left there, he returned with distracted looks to the room in which they were assembled.

  • Afterwards we wished for a time that we had left one of them at home.

  • He was in flannels, and his shirt had no stud in at the neck, and his hair was all rumpled up and his hands were inky, and we knew he had left off in the middle of a chapter by the wildness of his eye.

  • And we had left it,a smouldering flat heap.

  • There I found the pedestal just as I had left it, with the faint glimmer as of white feet still resting on the dead black.

  • Ere he came up to me, however, I remembered the legend of Sir Percival in the rusty armour, which I had left unfinished in the old book in the cottage: it was of Sir Percival that he reminded me.

  • I opened the door; and there in the cottage sat the old woman as I had left her, at her spinning-wheel.

  • No rock lifted up a sheltering severity above the dreariness around; even that from which I had myself emerged rose scarcely a foot above the opening by which I had reached the dismal day, more dismal even than the tomb I had left.

  • He was not absent more than ten minutes, and found Grace where he had left her.

  • Her mother was a very dear wife to me, but she was taken away from us when the child was young, and the child became precious as the apple of my eye to me, for she was all I had left to love.

  • He entered the door quietly, and went straight up-stairs to the drawing-room extemporized for their use by Melbury in his and his bride's absence, expecting to find her there as he had left her.

  • After I had left you," she went on, "I regretted something I had said.

  • Her own bedroom wore at once a look more familiar than when she had left it, and yet a face estranged.

  • Before she looked at Walter she looked at the knocker, and then, measuring him with her eyes from head to foot, said she wondered he had left any of it.

  • It was not gone, it never had been there, yet what a startling horror it had left behind.

  • The lady lay upon her bed as he had left her, clasping her little daughter to her breast.

  • Florence thought of this good creature, long after he had left her, with mingled emotions of pain and pleasure.

  • Aegeon, seeing his son, concluded this was the son who had left him to go in search of his mother and his brother; and he felt secure that his dear son would readily pay the money demanded for his ransom.

  • He then gave orders what further he would have him do; and away went Ariel, first to where he had left Ferdinand, and found him still sitting on the grass in the same melancholy posture.

  • There was a long-drawn silence in the room when he had left it, which was to Flambeau's fierce wits one long agony of interrogation.

  • For various private reasons I had permission to see the documents he had left; he was a Catholic, of course, and I had been with him towards the end.

  • A small figure with a foolishly large head drew waveringly near them in the moonlit haze; looked for an instant like a goblin, but turned out to be the harmless little priest whom they had left in the drawing-room.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "had left" 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:
    had begun; had but; had ever been before; had fallen; had finished; had formed; had grown; had his; had just; had known; had lost; had never; had never before seen; had not been able; had previously; had rather; had seemed; had set; had the good fortune; had time; had told; had yet; reciprocal action; then heated; whatsoever things are lovely; woman suffrage