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Example sentences for "had received"

  • It was Mary's hope and belief that he had received a positive dismissal from Henrietta, and her husband lived under the constant dependence of seeing him to-morrow.

  • The Kellynch estate should be transmitted whole and entire, as he had received it.

  • At Lyme, he had received lessons of more than one sort.

  • Notwithstanding the rebuff I had received from my immediate chief, I therefore, on the 28th of January, renewed the suggestion by telegraph that "if permitted, I could take and hold Fort Henry on the Tennessee.

  • General Smith was delighted to see me and was unhesitating in his denunciation of the treatment I had received.

  • There was no time for delay; I reported by telegraph to the department commander the information I had received, and added that I was taking steps to get off that night to be in advance of the enemy in securing that important point.

  • By this time I had received authority to relieve McClernand, or to assign any person else to the command of the river expedition, or to assume command in person.

  • He had received a note asking him to call on Mascarin at eleven o'clock, and twelve had struck some time before he made his appearance.

  • About a fortnight since he had received a letter from her informing him that she had found a suitable place of residence in a village near Glasgow.

  • He had received, in return, her promise to be guided by his advice.

  • In a few moments I was standing at the foot of the tree manipulating myself all over with a view of ascertaining the extent of the injuries I had received.

  • Urged on by their fearful outcries, and heedless of the injury I had received--though the blood flowing from the wound trickled over into my eyes and almost blinded me--I rushed down the mountain side with the speed of the wind.

  • As long as I was in danger I scarcely felt the wound I had received; but when the chase was over I began to suffer from it.

  • It is evident, therefore, that an official man would have been well paid if he had received a fourth or fifth part of what would now be an adequate stipend.

  • The appearance of Dangerfield's body, which had been frightfully lacerated by the whip, inclined many to believe that his death was chiefly, if not wholly, caused by the stripes which he had received.

  • Another still wore a patch over the scar which he had received at Naseby.

  • As he went out, Raskolnikov had time to put his hand into his pocket, to snatch up the coppers he had received in exchange for his rouble in the tavern and to lay them unnoticed on the window.

  • From his conversation I gather he is going to marry his sister, and that he had received a letter about it just before his illness.

  • And even the curve of his spine was expressive of the horrible insult he had received.

  • It was a long while since he had received a letter, but another feeling also suddenly stabbed his heart.

  • Bagration replied that he was not authorized either to accept or refuse a truce and sent his adjutant to Kutuzov to report the offer he had received.

  • By impetus gained, the French army was still able to roll forward to Moscow, but there, without further effort on the part of the Russians, it had to perish, bleeding from the mortal wound it had received at Borodino.

  • But he did not render again according to the benefits which he had received, for his heart was lifted up: and wrath was enkindled against him, and against Juda and Jerusalem.

  • And when he had received them, he fashioned them by founders' work, and made of them a molten calf.

  • And he had received an answer from the Holy Ghost, that he should not see death before he had seen the Christ of the Lord.

  • When he strove to do so, his mind recoiled from the attempt, and in lieu of forgiving, ran off in a double spirit of vindictiveness, dwelling on the extent of the injury he had received.

  • He had received an invitation to spend a couple of days with the archbishop.

  • At Nairobi he had received news of the World War that had already started, and, anticipating an immediate invasion of British East Africa by the Germans, was hurrying homeward to fetch his wife to a place of greater security.

  • Rolling from beneath the two battling lions Tarzan regained his feet, though he was half dazed and staggering from the impact of the terrible blow he had received.

  • Only Otobu remained to face the enemy, for the Englishman, already weak from his wounds and from the latest mauling he had received at the claws of the lion, had lost consciousness as he sank to the ground with this new hurt.

  • Besides that, the treatment he was having now was but of a piece with what he had received at all times.

  • The Sultan had come in answer to his summons, the Reefians had been routed, their villages burnt, and that morning at daybreak he had received a message saying that Abd er-Rahman intended to keep the feast of the Moolood at Tetuan.

  • Sometimes the Governor had pretended that he had received an order from the Sultan to impose a gross and wicked tax, but Israel's answer had been the same.

  • He took leave of his friends and admirers with emotion, and, notwithstanding the praises and acclamations he had received at Bordeaux, he quietly turned to pursue his humble occupation at Agen.

  • He was not buoyed up by the praises he had received.

  • Jasmin valued his bit of parchment more highly than all the other gifts he had received.

  • He had received a personal insult; he was of the house of Waverley; and he bore a commission.

  • In the meanwhile, Waverley turned the instructions he had received while in Gardiner's dragoons to some account, and assisted the Baron in his command as a sort of adjutant.

  • They rowed right for the mouth of the cave, and then, shipping their oars, permitted the boat to enter in obedience to the impulse which it had received.

  • It was the first billet he had received; it was the first rendezvous that had been granted him.

  • Musketeer, as if he had received a ball in his heart.

  • Preoccupied as Monsieur was with the letter he had received, he did not observe that; but I, whom the strange fashion in which that letter came into the house had placed on my guard--I did not lose a movement of his features.

  • He strictly followed the instructions he had received.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "had received" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    black ground; had any; had before; had better; had brought from the; had caught; had determined; had enough; had found; had heard; had hitherto; had little; had long; had never seen her; had not been long; had now; had only; had reached; had recourse; had seen; had succeeded; had such; had the good fortune; had told; right noble; sweet sounds