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Example sentences for "had observed"

  • He had observed a fort which we should have to pass close by on our starboard hand on going out.

  • He said that he met with Todd, and told him as a friend what he had observed.

  • While the boats were going backwards and forwards between the ships, I had observed in one of them a man whose countenance bore, I thought, a remarkable resemblance to that of Charles Iffley.

  • I pointed out what I had observed to La Motte.

  • She must have recognised him before he had observed her.

  • Coningsby had sat very near the stage; he had observed, with great advantage and attention, the countenance and movements of Flora from the beginning.

  • Just as the youth, mounted on a chair, was adjusting the portrait of the Duke, which he had observed to be awry, the gentleman for whom he had been all this time waiting entered the room.

  • When I first entered the cabin, I thought I had observed an object moving in the corner, but I took no notice of it.

  • The captain said that he had come to trade with the natives in those parts; that he had just got out of harbour, and he had seen no vessel during the day till he had observed us rounding the point.

  • While we had been speaking I had observed a young Malay lad pass constantly, and put his head in to look at us.

  • We had made an observation that rendered us uneasy: we had observed a weak point in our defence.

  • Up to this time, he had observed a profound silence; but for all that, I fancied he was not disinclined to a little causerie.

  • It was not that, however, nor yet his fine personal appearance, that interested me; but rather something I had observed in his bearing and manner.

  • He had observed signs of a change of weather.

  • While chafing Voules's chest he had observed a locket hanging to a riband.

  • But more remarkable still, Le Monnier, of Paris, had observed it eight times in one month, cataloguing it each time as a different star.

  • The finite velocity of light explained the major part of the irregularities he had observed, but not the whole.

  • With imperfect optical means and his own eyesight to guide him, he considered and pondered over the proper motion of the stars as he had observed it, till he discovered a kind of uniformity running through it all.

  • But this immediately suggested a cause for what he had observed in the heavens.

  • It was very small, only of the eighth magnitude; and he wrote to two astronomers (one of them Bode himself) saying what he had observed.

  • The ice we had observed earlier in the mouth of the most westerly channel had by this time completely blocked the opening.

  • As we had no meat, I went to see if I could not kill some geese (Chloephaga magellanica), which I had observed upon a neck of land, that stretched out into the river.

  • I was thinking of the ostriches I had observed when I saw over a ridge to the left the ears of a guanaco.

  • As there were no guanaco in the neighbourhood, he took the Paradox and I my 12-bore, and we confined ourselves to following some flocks of upland geese which we had observed in the valley.

  • He had seen Mary Standish frequently aboard the Nome; a number of times he had observed her in Alan's company, and he knew of the hours they had spent together in Skagway.

  • Mary Standish's eyes were shining, and she clapped her hands when she saw that he had observed her.

  • There was wonderment in her voice, and then, if he had observed it, understanding.

  • None of the current which we had observed above, and which had nearly baffled my protecting care of the candle during the descent, came from this gallery; but I find it written in my notes that the gallery was very cold.

  • Georges in the spring of 1852 affords valuable information, for at that time the coating of ice on the wall, evidently newly formed, did not present the structure aréolaire which he had observed in his summer visit to the cave.

  • It was natural to examine the structure of the ice in this glacière, after what we had observed on La Genollière.

  • In most parts of the valley I found a great deal of alluvium, but I saw none of the fine clay which is characteristic of the purely lacustrine strata above the village of Bilergu, where I had observed it in April.

  • At first the igneous rock was dark and resembling greenstone, but it soon changed to granite, which, as I had observed in April, occurs everywhere in the valley of Dras, below Karbu.

  • The occurrence of great accumulations of boulders, of a rock different from that which occurs in situ on the very summit of the pass, was quite conformable to what I had observed on some of the passes between Kunawar and Hangarang.

  • I had observed it, and had often wondered whether she had too.

  • Traddles rose from his chair, and, with a triumphant smile, put his hand upon the white cloth I had observed.

  • On more than one occasion I had observed one or two figures hovering on the brow of some hill, or appearing from behind trees, bushes, or rocks.

  • My preserver, Manco, had observed him; the recognition was mutual, and they soon approached the spot where I lay.

  • I mentioned that at some distance from me I had observed a few of my friends, among whom I had no doubt was my father, hard pressed by a number of the robbers, who seemed intent on their destruction.

  • I told our host that I had observed this, and inquired where the people came from.

  • They were not wanting in the forest, where I had observed an abundance of fallen branches and leaves.

  • Mr Henley had warned me, when some days before I had observed that I hoped the captain had improved, that before long he would break out as bad as ever.

  • Curiously enough, there was the same speck in the horizon which we had observed in the morning.

  • Here we had observed a dozen or more little pavilions, with windows opening nearly all the way round, so that from whatever direction the wind came, it could find a passage through them.

  • The town or mound of Santuru's mother was shown to me; this was the first symptom of an altered state of feeling with regard to the female sex that I had observed.

  • This I had observed repeatedly in other parts before.

  • The water was discolored--a circumstance which we had observed in no river in Londa or in the Makololo country.

  • But the changes in my psychical state which I had observed a year ago have become sensibly accentuated.

  • He had observed in Echinoderma that, during the transformation of their larvae, the parts becoming atrophied were englobed by mesodermic mobile cells.

  • He connected these new facts with that which he had observed in 1865 in one of the lower worms, the earth planarian Geodesmus bilineatus.

  • When, if at all, did you first report what you had observed in the Texas School Book Depository Building about the man with the rifle to anyone in an official position?

  • He had no photographs from which to work, and had to work under our description, verbal description, of what we had observed.

  • In attempting to relate findings within the President's body to this wound which we had observed low in his neck, we then opened his chest cavity, and we very carefully examined the lining of his chest cavity and both of his lungs.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    good friend; great nobleman; had before; had better; had felt; had for; had formerly; had gained; had himself; had hitherto; had just; had met; had never; had never heard before; had often; had promised; had received from the; had risen; had sent; had set; had some; had such; had suffered; had taken from the; obey orders; shedding tears