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Example sentences for "man had"

  • Beyond eating and working a man had little to do, but just to wait till he died.

  • She will not be happy when she accepts him; but by the time the day fixed for the wedding comes round, she will have reconciled herself to it, and then she will be as loving a wife as ever a man had.

  • Was it ever known that a man had died, or become irretrievably broken and destroyed by disappointed love?

  • Such a man had no right even to think of women so exalted.

  • The Truth of it is, a Man had better be a Gally-Slave than a Wit, were one to gain that Title by those Elaborate Trifles which have been the Inventions of such Authors as were often Masters of great Learning but no Genius.

  • The step came nearer and paused, and peering out, my face nearer the glass, I saw a man had come to a stand before the door.

  • I saw a man had come to a stand before the door.

  • He was waiting excitedly until the old man had finished, so that he might drink brotherhood with him.

  • In the city the poor were living from hand to mouth; if a man had a bad day it was visible on his plate the next morning.

  • Pelle shouted with them; and when they had finished the man had disappeared.

  • He remembered how in his youth a man had tried to keep wild foxes on this same island, for breeding purposes, but they had whisked their brushes in his face and swum ashore.

  • Some weeks after the loss of the "Speedwell," it came to my ears that a man had a tale worth hearing.

  • When I made the remark in a meeting once that a man had to reap more than he sowed, a man in front of me dropped his head and sobbed aloud.

  • If ever a man had an opportunity to cover his sins, David had.

  • Morrel paid the expenses of his funeral, and a few small debts the poor old man had contracted.

  • Ages before the time which the limitations of our knowledge force us to speak of as the dawn of history, man had reached a high stage of development.

  • As long as a man had so much of his journey to accomplish, he would not sit down in his advancement, he would not compare with others, and exalt himself above others.

  • If a man had never so great ability to plead in the law, yet, except he be licentiate and graduate, he may not take upon him to plead a cause.

  • Now, then, all the little reason that poor man had is useless.

  • Then she sang a queer song over and over again until the young-man had learned it well.

  • It was a monstrous raft that OLD-man had built, as he sang his song in the darkness.

  • The Unlucky-one told the Owl-chief just what he had told the old woman and the Beaver and the Coyote and OLD-man, and showed the stick that the white Beaver had given him and the arrow that OLD-man had given to him to prove it.

  • It was not long to wait, for all the OLD-man had to do was to make mischief, and only those who have work to do measure time.

  • He never came back--no, the OLD-man had made it so big that the Wolf died of old age before he got back to the raft.

  • To be a voter in those days a man had to have an estate worth a certain sum of money, [2] or a specified annual income, or own a certain number of acres.

  • To be a freeman in Massachusetts and Connecticut a man had to own a certain amount of property and be a member of a recognized church.

  • Moreover, to be eligible as governor or a member of a state legislature a man had to own more property than was needed to qualify him to vote.

  • One of the others, with a grin that was almost a leer, also rose and reached for another log at a neighboring table from which a man had risen.

  • It had been made by a mushrooming bullet, and the wonder was that the man had lived at all after receiving it.

  • There might be a practicable way through, but to search for it would take more time than the man had to spare.

  • Sakovich, to hide the prince's deed from the people, spread the report that the old man had gone to Tyltsa.

  • The greater coward a man had been, the greater his daring now in urging Kordetski not to expose to destruction the sacred place, the capital of the Most Holy Lady.

  • They struck into the smoke before all could turn front to them, and a terrible hewing began; only sabres and rapiers were used, for no man had time to fire.

  • No man had a keener sense of honour, no man was more ready to help a fellow-student, none worked harder in the mission of the college, none lived a simpler life.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "man had" 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:
    case where; man has; manner aforesaid; manufactured articles; many causes; many cells; many children; many difficulties; many families; many fields; many friends; many generations; many hundred; many islands; many men; many parts; many passages; many physicians; many prisoners; many quarters; many species; many stamens; many states; many subjects; many wives; situated about