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Example sentences for "had looked"

  • He had looked at her consistently since he entered the room, and Henrietta was angrily aware that Mrs. Batty was trying to make herself insignificant in her corner of the sofa.

  • He had looked at Aunt Rose and she had seen him weaken, yet he had promised.

  • The clouds at which he had looked so hopefully were really growing a little heavier now.

  • It seemed to him in later days that he had looked upon it as it passed.

  • He had looked upon no light event in the harbor of Charleston that day.

  • It was rather more difficult than it had looked.

  • So the next morning at daylight Keith found himself sitting in the boot, enveloped in old Tim's greatcoat, enthroned in that high seat toward which he had looked in his childhood-dreams.

  • And he had looked at her with his deep eyes twinkling.

  • His school-days were over, and he was free; but the wild exultation to which he had looked forward at that moment was not there.

  • He had managed before this to get out of having tea with Dunsford, and, punctually at half past four (he had looked at his watch a dozen times), he went into the shop.

  • He had looked at her a moment--and he well knew how she had struck him, in respect to the beautiful world, as one of the beautiful, the most beautiful things.

  • I can't make head or tail of them," I said when I had looked carefully at each, and endeavoured to unravel its secret, for obviously it must possess some secret meaning.

  • How he had looked forward to the day when Arnoul should be a great prince, and requite him with love.

  • I had looked for a cut from thee, would have saved me all fighting henceforth.

  • Did this man who had sullenly avoided him for more than two years, whom he had looked on as a clod or a post in the field beneath his notice, since he could be of no use to him,--did this man still care for him?

  • For he went into the chamber, and there, upon the floor, lay the letter which he had looked for in vain.

  • He had looked on at his own drama as a piece which one does not understand.

  • Basque and Nicolette, all in a flutter, had looked only at their young master all covered with blood.

  • When I had exhausted the garden and a greenhouse with nothing in it but a fallen-down grape-vine and some bottles, I found myself in the dismal corner upon which I had looked out of the window.

  • But we had looked forward to my one-and-twentieth birthday, with a crowd of speculations and anticipations, for we had both considered that my guardian could hardly help saying something definite on that occasion.

  • I don't know what he had looked like, except a funeral; with the addition of a large Danish sun or star hanging round his neck by a blue ribbon, that had given him the appearance of being insured in some extraordinary Fire Office.

  • But if he had looked at me for an hour or for a day, I could not have remembered his face ever afterwards, as having been more attentive.

  • He had looked at his nephew from under brows which a constant need for rejecting petitions to the Home Office had drawn permanently down and in toward the nose, and made no answer.

  • How very small and rosy he had looked, his bright hair standing on end, and his little blue eyes staring up very hard from under a troubled frown.

  • When he had looked at it a little he slipped it down, and there was that other one--that old one of Irene.

  • He had looked forward to them, because his gifts had meant a semblance of gratitude, a certain attempt at warmth.

  • When he had looked around at everything, it being now evening, he went out to Bethany with the twelve.

  • When he had looked around at them with anger, being grieved at the hardening of their hearts, he said to the man, "Stretch out your hand.

  • In this instance, however, he did not regard Wapoos as he had looked on Umisk the beaver.

  • And this morning, before Baree ran upon them, he had looked at Nepeese more closely than ever before in his life.

  • Was it like this that the first woman had looked to Kazan?

  • This was the triumph he had looked forward to, the torture he had waited for.

  • She, too, had looked at Carmina--and had registered the result of her observation privately.

  • I had looked forward to seeing my clever son rise more nearly to a level with persons of rank, who are members of our family.

  • He had looked at his cousin, when he declared his change of plan--and he was looking at her still.

  • For years he had looked forward to that as the highest white mountain peak of his life.

  • He had ridden quickly away, not noting that some of the men standing by had looked sharply at the boys and then significantly at one another.

  • He had looked to be too intensely business-like.

  • And then, all in a day or in a night, though he had seen never a turn in the road, though he had gone a true and straight course, suddenly he had looked up to find he was headed the opposite way.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    had also; had asked; had done; had formed; had great; had learnt; had never been able; had never before seen; had once; had promised; had put; had rather; had received from the; had seemed; had she; had something; had started; had taken; had the; had tried; had yet; hundred and fifty yards; our ships; square miles; tell what; troubled look