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Example sentences for "had returned"

  • We must return for a moment to the fact that Hugh and Archie had returned to town before Harry Clavering.

  • On the next morning a note was brought to her, in which Sir Hugh told her that he had returned to London.

  • He went, and probably found that his taste for the Eldon and for whist had returned to him.

  • Then the father went out, and before he had returned to the house the child was dead.

  • Derues received him with the utmost astonishment, appearing convinced that the young man had returned home.

  • Then at the end of three days, being healed, he had returned to his duty, and soon everyone except he had forgotten the punishment.

  • He had returned to France in the lifetime of Henry IV, and had married the daughter of Sully, and after Henri's death had commanded the Swiss and the Grison regiments--at the siege of Juliers.

  • The morning of the 25th opened clear and bright, and the whole field was in full view from the top of Orchard Knob.

  • General Sherman, leaving a force to hold Atlanta, with the remainder of his army fell upon him and drove him to Gadsden, Alabama.

  • At which high eulogium Mr. Verdant Green blushed, and made an inward resolution that, as soon as he had returned home, he would subscribe to the Warwickshire hounds, and make his appearance in the field.

  • The meeting was at an end, and on reaching home Pierre felt as if he had returned from a long journey on which he had spent dozens of years, had become completely changed, and had quite left behind his former habits and way of life.

  • After he had returned, voices were heard outside the shed.

  • He involuntarily remembered how Dolokhov, who had fully recovered his former position after the campaign, had returned to Petersburg and come to him.

  • Pierre with the unconscious coquetry that had returned to her with her better spirits.

  • At the last exhibition he himself feared the words of Crispus; and when he had returned to the Palatine, he could not sleep from rage and shame, but also from fear.

  • Petronius, when he had returned home, was gloomy as a storm, and did not even try to console Vinicius.

  • Chapter XXX Cæsar, on returning to Rome, was angry because he had returned, and after some days was filled anew with a wish to visit Achæa.

  • The people who, filled by the feast and gladsome, had returned to the Circus with shouts, became silent, not knowing on which body to rest their eyes, or what to think of the spectacle.

  • Pizarro's emissary had orders to send the offending captain to Lima; but Benalcazar, after pushing his victorious career far into the north, had returned to Castile to solicit his guerdon from the emperor.

  • Mr. Ratray, though he had returned to Europe, gave the most cheering accounts of the B.

  • Mrs. Laura, as soon as I had returned to my own apartments.

  • Domini noticed that the tortured expression, which had come into his face when she met him in the street and he stared into the bag, had returned to it.

  • The sense of her womanhood, lost for a moment in the ecstasy of worship, had returned to her, but with a new and tremendous meaning which seemed to change her nature.

  • To-day he had returned to his worst self, to the man who had twice treated her with brutal rudeness.

  • In them the girls said that the session at the seminary was over, and that the day previous they had returned to their home on the outskirts of Cedarville.

  • Tom had rested for several months, and then, declaring that he felt as good as ever, had returned to Brill.

  • Since he had returned to Brill, she had asked that he either call on her or write to her at least once a week.

  • That was a letter that epitomized many others written me in those days to Madrid from the Escurial, whither he had returned.

  • He returned the answer that already he had returned to many questions of the sort.

  • I endured it stoutly, but inwardly I was shaken, as I wrote to Philip, giving him full details of what had been said and what answers I had returned, what bitter draughts I had been forced to swallow.

  • Those who had either not revolted or had returned to the alliance before the capture of Syracuse, were received and honoured as faithful allies.

  • But he had returned, saying that he could not live without the girl.

  • He had returned to America in 1844, urging that a railroad across the continent would bring the trade of China to the United States and enable American merchants to control it.

  • In a sense Clay was the center of attraction, both because he had returned after a long absence and because he was expected to use his conciliatory power toward a settlement which would satisfy both the North and the South.

  • Major McDowell did not put in an appearance until after I had returned from my morning ride.

  • Smith, the teamster who brought me across, had returned to the mainland with the horses, and then swam back to the island.

  • The charge of Stanley's brigade had not occupied to exceed thirty minutes, and as soon as it was ended I had returned to find him gone.

  • He was telling himself for the hundredth time that he had never hated anybody so much before, when he became aware that he had returned to the neighbourhood of the Piazza Navona.

  • He had returned to the bright side of the piazza when the lights seemed to be wiped out as though by an invisible wing, and the whole city was plunged in darkness.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    had become; had been fixed since; had better; had brought from the; had ceased; had ever been before; had felt; had finished; had gained; had great; had had; had hitherto; had just; had lost; had never seen her; had observed; had picked; had rather; had received from the; had sent; had such; had suffered; had taken; had taken from the; had the good fortune; these mountains