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Example sentences for "had one"

  • It looked like him enough to be his twin brother, if he had one.

  • His second wife was Susan Hammond, of Ostable, and by her he had one daughter, Ardelia.

  • When preparing to leave Seville he had one of those fiery quarrels, with which his life was to be studded.

  • Had one or other fallen to his lot, we might have had much literary work of a kind, but certainly not Lavengro.

  • A blister, I said, was all I could devise; and I had one accordingly, which cured the head, and set me at ease.

  • He had one son, Matthew, who seems, from what I can gather, to have been a wild sort of fellow in the early part of his career, and not to have been at any time on the best possible terms with the sanctimonious dad.

  • Well, yes; he had one son, Samuel, a kind of companion of mine.

  • The French, among the numerous projects for the moral improvement of civilised man, had one, which, had it not been polluted by a horrid faction, might have been directed to a noble end.

  • William de Fedrett, had one fourth of Caithness, which their son resigned to her sister's husband, Sir Reginald Chen III.

  • Sir Reginald Chen II, had one fourth of Caithness.

  • But I had one comfort--I had not waked Livy; I believed I could find that sock in silence if the night lasted long enough.

  • Slowly but surely I got on garment after garment--all down to one sock; I had one slipper on and the other in my hand.

  • The last of October, 1891, while doing my chores in the morning, I had one of those bad spells and upset my lantern, which resulted in my losing my buildings by fire.

  • We had one orator in the community--just one.

  • We had one man of means--Philo Sherman Bennett, the friend of Mr. Bryan.

  • In that house I had one of the most bitter experiences of my life.

  • Captain Starlight, I surrender my sword--or should do so if I had one.

  • I had one at him afterwards, though, with his hands tied, too.

  • As he went up he had one end of the coil of the rope round his wrist.

  • The troopers were civil enough, and gave me a glass of grog now and then when they had one themselves.

  • We had one bit of luck in having to be tried in an out-of-the-way place like Nomah.

  • He had one proof; she had a duplicate; the copy lay between them.

  • And she reflected: "I wonder if my daughter, supposing I had one, would be as different from me as I am from my mother!

  • Had one of those big houses high up on the hill behind the town!

  • I fairly prayed for the sight of a painted form, and time after time my fancy tricked me into the notion that I had one.

  • The young man, who wore claret silk and a sword, had one of those thin faces of dirty complexion which show the ravages of dissipation, and he was talking with a rapidity and vehemence of which only a Latin tongue will admit.

  • If I had one I should try to quiet it by reminding it that I am fulfilling a long-delayed promise--I am making a garden for Mrs. Larrabbee.

  • It was not the way Ephraim would have gone about a love affair, had he had one.

  • I had one of 'em after me once, when I was young and prosperin' some.

  • The Baron, who was not more than thirty-three years of age, had one of those energetic, handsome faces whose type seems to belong particularly to old military families.

  • Fortunately for him, he had one of those excellent Breton heads that break the sticks which beat them.

  • An observer might have perceived that she had one of those hearts, so finely strung, from which a clever hand might make incomparable harmonies of passion gush; but perhaps he would be mistaken.

  • He had a good wife, faithful servants, plenty of money; but he had one misfortune--a false friend.

  • I wish I had one of them," said the princess; "but if they are so nimble as you say they are, it is impossible to catch one.

  • By his first marriage he had one daughter, called Florina, or the little Flora, because she was so fresh and lovely; at the time of his second marriage she was quite fifteen years old.

  • On one such occasion he had one companion, a half-breed of uncertain character, but who was taken along as a guide, he being familiar with the route.

  • Then I had two horseshoes in each hand, but I wasn't four times as happy as when I had one.

  • I picked up the second horseshoe, and then I had one in each hand.

  • We understand that in some sections Chinese chestnuts are attacked by worms but I repeat we haven't had one to date.

  • In this last lot we had a cross of the filbert on the beak or horn hazel[5], and of a cluster of three, had one to grow, which in turn was promptly eaten off by a rabbit or rodent of some description.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    fifteen yards; had acquired; had always; had entered; had for; had found; had gone; had grown; had himself; had lost; had loved; had met; had never before seen; had received from the; had recourse; had risen; had seen; had she; had suffered; had time; had won; had written; indicative mood; narrow escape; square miles; wide area