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Example sentences for "one had"

  • One had refused to tell the Marquis to leave the room, and the other had accompanied him to the door.

  • The terror he had inspired was so profound, that, until this moment, no one had dared to show his joy, or to speak, though the tyrant was gone.

  • In the whole of the time before this no one had ventured to raise seriously the question of the origin of species, which is the culminating point of phylogeny.

  • Hence, until the time of Darwin no one had a clear idea of the real nature and causes of embryonic development.

  • How--even if one had a logically brilliant mind--could one calculate on a male being, who seemed not exactly to belong to the race of men.

  • But as a friend, Keats seems to me almost above praise; and I can imagine that if one had been of his circle, and had won his regard, it would have been difficult not to have idealised him.

  • One had no time to look at the beautiful things that leaned and beckoned from the walls.

  • One had only to climb a hill in order to see everything!

  • One had in mind some vast factory plant where every unit was efficiently organized; but that comparison would not do.

  • Of the two nearest, one had a bandage around his head and one a bandage around his arm.

  • One had to watch out for such places; but that was easy to do in broad daylight, with the sun shining.

  • But no one had thought of the broken window-pane which was only stuffed with a rag.

  • But no one had such a contempt for tame geese as Akka and her flock, and gladly would he have shown them that he was their equal.

  • No one had dared to ask for mercy; no one had dared to bring any help.

  • In fact, no one had deigned to place a sentinel at M.

  • I had some breakfast in my night dress, and then I was all fixed up in my new clothes, and made to sit on a chair, and never move for fear I would soil my dress, for no one had time to do me over, and there was only one dress anyway.

  • When we finished, and it was time for her to give the signal to arise, no one had asked to be excused, she said: "Let us have a word with the Most High.

  • He had fixed things so no one had anything to guess at, and it would look much worse for the Pryors than it would for him, if he did come back.

  • There was no window, only a skylight, and as the snow still covered it one had to leave the door wide open in order that one might see.

  • One had to be very careful, and follow narrow pathways which had been left between the beds and the mattresses.

  • And then, too, one had to bow to practical necessities; the most obstinate ended by submitting.

  • I replied that no one had told me anything and that I had noticed the day before what Lao Tsu Tsung liked (according to the Manchu custom one must address a superior or one's parents in the third person).

  • She also hated anyone to pay her compliments at the wrong moment, so one had to be very careful even in paying her compliments.

  • One had a sense of reserve and taste pervading the place, and yet it was also inestimably prosperous, solid and assuring.

  • Instead, he was considering the matter of engaging in bill-brokering, a business which he had observed to be very profitable and which involved no risk as long as one had capital.

  • No one had taken up the remark about the general, and no one had recognized in the officer who betrayed the castle of Yanina the noble count in the House of Peers.

  • From the very commencement of the evening she had not once stirred from her seat; no one had thought of asking her to dance.

  • One had only to glance at her low brow, one needed only one glimpse of her lazy, careless smile, to feel certain at once of the scantiness of her intellectual endowments.

  • One had flown 1800 miles in a single journey.

  • It must be borne in mind that at the time Dunne first took up the study of aviation no one had flown in Europe, and he could therefore receive but little help from the results achieved by other pilots and constructors.

  • No one had thought of caring for my poor father's spiritual needs in this awful hour.

  • No one had thought of me at the last, though most of my friends had heard of my intended departure.

  • No one had whispered to me that my father's second wife was, by right, a stranger to the most sacred affections of my young soul, but I learned the truth by myself.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "one 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:
    noble fellow; one could; one day; one direction; one end; one form; one half; one has; one hundred thousand dollars; one hundred thousand men; one kind; one might; one moment; one night; one person; one piece; one place; one side; one thousand five hundred; one volume; one was; one which; one will; one word; one would; whole being