I had promised to write to her, and I had never kept my word.
The doctor came in the evening, as he had promised, and found an improvement in Philip's health.
Just write her a note, and tell her that you find I had promised to preach at Chaldicotes next Sunday.
But he had promised Mr. Sowerby before he heard that you were coming.
Expecting the elections to be over in five days, he had promised to be back on Friday.
At first she thought about the children, about whom she was uneasy, although the princess and Kitty (she reckoned more upon her) had promised to look after them.
But he had promised Bryansky to come, and so he decided to drive on, telling the coachman not to spare the horses.
It was a view that Margaret the night before had promisedto show Henderson, that he might see what to her was the loveliest landscape in the world.
Mr. Meigs tried to mend matters by saying that hehad promised Mrs. Benson, you know, to look after her.
Well, I should lose that final fight I had promised myself, and that mound of slain for my funeral bed.
It began to come to my mind, however, that the infernal uproar of the earth tremor was beginning to slacken somewhat, as though Zaemon knew he had done the work that he had promised, and was minded to give the wretched city a breathing space.
A minute ago, before you came, I had promised myself a pretty enough fight to signalise my changing of abode.
We had no hope of contriving another meeting, for I had promised to bring her brother in the afternoon.
Scarcely a quarter of an hour had elapsed after his arrival when I received an intimation to give up, in twenty-four hours, the apartments in the Tuileries, which he had promised my wife should retain till after her confinement.
At Erfurt Bonaparte attained the principal object he had promised himself by the meeting.
I retired to a house which Bonaparte had advised me to purchase at St. Cloud, and for the fitting up and furnishing of which he had promised to pay.
I was very sure of doing what I had promised, for within an hour before I had seen M.
Chamillart, although then by no means rich, scraped together all the money he had, borrowing the rest, and paid the man as he had promised, only demanding that the matter should be kept a secret.
After waiting some time she spoke to the King, reminding him what he had promised to do.
As the grand organ pealed sonorously through the fragrant air, I remembered the ever youthful and gracious Spirits of Music, one of whom, Aeon, had promised to be my friend.
I had promised to witness this work of destruction, and witness it I did, but it was with pain and regret.
During that strange interview in the chapel, Heliobas had said that in eight days more I should be strong enough to undergo the transmigration he had promised to effect upon me.
And the Lord visited Sara, as he had promised: and fulfilled what he had spoken.
But the Lord would not destroy Juda, for David his servant's sake, as he had promised him, to give him a light, and to his children always.
Not so much as one word, which he had promised to perform unto them, was made void, but all came to pass.
So Menelaus got the principality: but as for the money he had promised to the king, he took no care, when Sostratus, the governor of the castle, called for it.
But the Lord would not destroy the house of David: because of the covenant which he had made with him: and because he had promised to give a lamp to him, and to his sons for ever.
Moreover, Jean held Polyte and his mother completely under his control by the wealth which he had promised them if they served him docilely.
But the old physician had not given his word lightly, and everything took place as he had promised.
Cesarine confided her anxiety to her uncle Pillerault, and he had promised to pay the bill.
The celebrated and dilatory binder, Thouvenin, had promised to deliver the volumes at twelve o'clock in the morning of the 16th.
Ralph checked off on his fingers the list of things he had promised Claude to attend to.
II Claude set off to find the Grand Hotel, where he had promised to dine with Victor Morse.
He and Enid were going to Denver and Colorado Springs for their wedding trip, but Ralph would be at home then, and he had promised to come over and water the flowers and shrubs if the weather was dry.
So, filled with good resolves, the young man went the next day to his creditors and paid his debts; he bought back the house which his father had left him, and there began to lead a new life as he had promised.
As for the soldier, he knew no more how to do what he had promised to do than my grandmother's cat; for where was he to get clothes fine enough for the King of the Wind to wear?
Moreover, he had promised to show the queen the hidden treasure the next day.
He did as he had promised, but in such a manner, that the nobles, who appreciated the joke, continued their devastations as before.
In the mean time the Count of Vermandois was sent upon an embassy to the Emperor Alexius at Constantinople, to reproach him for his base desertion of the cause, and urge him to send the reinforcements he had promised.
My men, and all those with whom I had been connected, had been accustomed to rely most implicitly upon all that I had promised, and the punishment of this man had been an expressed determination.
I had promisedto make an example of this fellow; I therefore had him arrested and brought before the divan.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "had promised" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
