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Example sentences for "had said"

  • His feet were wet, and he was tired of walking, and sick of the smell of stuffy unaired theatres, and he had said he must really get back to write some letters--and so they had kept on to the hotel.

  • He had said to himself: "It will rain to-morrow," and the thought had made the air seem warmer and the sun more vivid on her hair.

  • In writing him my opinion of his book the year before, I had said, "In fact, I am in love with John Ermine.

  • He had said to himself, "When I am over this, when I have had sleep and return to the normal, I shall again be the foolish slave of all these months.

  • She hesitated a moment longer, as if weighing what he had said.

  • He thought it was because of what he had said.

  • All that I had heard and seen, and a great part of what he had said himself, led me to suppose that he was a wealthy man.

  • Many things he had said which I had been at a loss to understand, were quite reconcilable with the idea thus presented to me, and at length I concluded that beyond all doubt he was one of this unhappy race.

  • Clennam, however, finding him already beginning to be pacified, had said all he wanted to say, and more.

  • A prisoner, in a French gaol, on an accusation of murder,' repeated Mrs Clennam, steadily going over what her son had said.

  • And, the reply being in the negative, had said, 'Then I won't look at you.

  • It was as if he had said, 'I have a secret power in this quarter.

  • He repeated in a few words what he had said, and in a great many what she had answered.

  • You said then that you would tell me at another time what he had said to you.

  • And yet if I had said so, no one would have understood me; I don't mean simply to my family.

  • And the LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did unto Sarah as he had spoken.

  • Then their anger was abated toward him, when he had said that.

  • So Moses hearkened to the voice of his father in law, and did all that he had said.

  • And Ahab came into his house heavy and displeased because of the word which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him: for he had said, I will not give thee the inheritance of my fathers.

  • The instant I had said it I was convinced I had hit on the explanation, and that perhaps it was already too late.

  • I had said nothing to the two detectives.

  • What was it he had said to Louise, that had sent her up to Sunnyside, half wild with fear for him?

  • She took one of his cigarettes, and it was as good as he had said.

  • He had said that, whether for good or for evil, really to live one must be strong.

  • When Burlingham lapsed into silence, laughing at himself for having talked so far over the "kiddie's" head, she sat puzzling out what he had said.

  • I didn't believe it--not after what we had said to each other.

  • She was surprised that she understood so much of what he had said--childlike wonder at her wise old heart, made wise almost in a night--a wedding night.

  • And when he had said this, he looked around him, and there was a feeble titter of approbation from two or three of the craven crew, who were in the habit of currying favour with the coachmen.

  • He had said, as I have told you, that he should be my ruin, but I was the cause of his, and all owing to the misfortune of this here eye of mine.

  • Heath ought to have one," he had said to his father.

  • Do you defend your lover to me," he had said on one occasion, when she had entered a timid protest.

  • He had said that at the beginning of her delirium she had attacked and insulted his mother and himself but they had excused her because they realised afterwards what the cause of her excitement had been.

  • He had said this of intention for her enlightenment, and she was aware that he had done so.

  • The Americans, he had said to himself, were creatures of warmer blood than the English.

  • The ground of the grave had not been trampled down hard enough, and he had said so plainly at the time, but his prudent counsels had been overruled.

  • However, when we had said it was first-class ginger-beer, and paid for it, we found it not so easy to extract anything more from B.

  • The word volunteer cost the young Oswald a pang as soon as he had said it, but I hope he can bear pangs with any man living.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "had said" 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:
    full armour; had all; had been; had before; had bought; had brought from the; had chosen; had done; had ever been before; had given; had lost; had made; had much; had never been able; had now; had obtained; had resolved; had seemed; had set; had spoken; had the greatest difficulty; had tried; real objects; steps leading; three yards; your son