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Example sentences for "had made"

  • Long before we had completed the tour of inspection I had made up my mind that this young lady should come to live in my house.

  • What a dreadful mistake I had made in selecting such a man for my house-agent.

  • The hold was mostly filled with empty barrels, for we was just beginning our v'yage, and when he had made kindling-wood of these there was room enough for him.

  • And for Aaron's sons thou shalt make coats, and thou shalt make for them girdles, and bonnets shalt thou make for them, for glory and for beauty.

  • And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was filled with them.

  • His mind was crazed with dwelling upon the wonderful discovery he had made, and if he wronged them he contemplated a still more terrible wrong to be inflicted upon me, his daughter.

  • At the shot the prahu slowed up, and a volley of musketry from her crew satisfied Sing that he had made no mistake in classifying her.

  • That mysterious individual referred to in the first chapter as an object of terror among the inhabitants of our little cabin, under the ominous title of "old master," was really a man of some consequence.

  • I had made a motion which the viper understood; and now, partly disengaging itself from my bosom, where it had lain perdu, it raised its head to a level with my face, and stared upon my enemy with its glittering eyes.

  • Our own party was chased half-way up the hill, where I was struck to the ground by the baker, after having been foiled in an attempt which I had made to fling a handful of earth into his eyes.

  • I have already spoken of my brother's taste for painting, and the progress he had made in that beautiful art.

  • Two friends alone of all I had made stood by me without qualification--Miss Foot and Clara Osborn, the latter my "chum" at Big Rapids and a dweller in my heart to this day.

  • Probably he regretted as earnestly as we did that he had made it.

  • You will hear from me later," he said, when he had made a note of it.

  • He had made an appointment at a house not far from the Hotel de Langeais; and the business over, he went thither as if to his own home.

  • And already he had made enemies; others were jealous, and envied him his position.

  • The wrecks lie thick on the shore, but their broken sides and gaunt skeletons are not warnings sufficient to keep a thousand other ships from steering right on to the shoals.

  • A present Christ will never fail His servants, and will make the furnace cool even when its fire is fiercest.

  • Down into the glowing mass, like chips of wood into Vesuvius, they sank.

  • Or, what right had Darius to expect that any god would interfere to stop the consequences of his act, which he thus himself condemned?

  • Now when I had mastered the language of this water and had come to know every trifling feature that bordered the great river as familiarly as I knew the letters of the alphabet, I had made a valuable acquisition.

  • I declined, because I wasn't well enough or strong enough; but I kept still, and kept the reputation I had made.

  • In fact, I had made an appointment, though not with her, and she was precise to both time and place.

  • Mr. Clarke began to read over the account for the tenth time, glancing now and then at the pencil notes he had made when it was told him by his friend.

  • When he looked again the doctor was binding up the wound he had made.

  • The very sight of Torrance brings in my head a little droll matter of some years ago, when I had made a tryst with the poor oaf at the cross of Edinburgh.

  • Indeed, he bore some grudge against the family and friends of Ardshiel, and before he was drunk he read me a lampoon, in very good Latin, but with a very ill meaning, which he had made in elegiac verses upon a person of that house.

  • There followed on that a council of the officers, and some decision which I did not rightly understand, seeing only the result: that we had made a fair wind of a foul one and were running south.

  • When we had made an end of our meal, my uncle Ebenezer unlocked a drawer, and drew out of it a clay pipe and a lump of tobacco, from which he cut one fill before he locked it up again.

  • He had made up his mind to the course as a duty, and was strenuously bent upon following it out.

  • But what had interested me most was the sight that the half-turned section had presented through the opening that it had made.

  • Instantly with the shock of impact I reversed my engine, but my prow was wedged in the hole it had made in the battleship's stern.

  • He had made up his mind to waste no time in arranging this matter.

  • And so I ceased to repine for the wound I had made in the heart of Semiramis Wilcox.

  • That afternoon I realized that I must face the state of afairs, and I added up the Checks I had made out.

  • He would know at once that I had made him up, or rather he did not know me and therefore could not possibly be in Love with me.

  • I had made my own Fate, and must lie in it.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    ancient science; changed voice; had always; had been fixed since; had caught; had chosen; had died; had enough; had entered; had for; had forgotten; had long; had lost; had much; had obtained; had passed; had picked; had promised; had recourse; had scarcely; had set; had started; had yet; had you; met the; take things