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Example sentences for "that had"

  • It is my belief, however, that had I attempted a different order of composition, my faculties would not have been found so pointless and inefficacious.

  • She went up to him, kissed him, and smelt whisky and some scent that had geraniums in it.

  • It may be that once he had loved her; that had been in those days when she was not old enough to love him .

  • And he went out into all the coasts of Judea round about, and took vengeance upon the men that had revolted, and they ceased to go forth any more into the country.

  • Because they were afraid to be deprived of the law, and of their country, and of the holy temple: and that he would not suffer the people, that had of late taken breath for a little while, to be again in subjection to blasphemous nations.

  • Booth was hurried away into seclusion, and the next morning the city that had been so gay over night with bunting was draped with mourning.

  • What he sought was a perfectly uniform and homogeneous carbon, one like the "One-Hoss Shay," that had no weak spots to break down at inopportune times.

  • A vigorous and aggressive legal campaign was therefore inaugurated by the Edison Electric Light Company against the numerous infringing companies and individuals that had sprung up while the main suit was pending.

  • As yet they had suffered no scathe by the way, save the king's chaplain, that had to return to the Rhine afoot.

  • He did on his armour straightway, and ran where he found the stranger, that had made an end of binding the giant.

  • And what was it within me that had lured me away from these?

  • But even in the midst of these surges of passion I was conscious of the birth of a new force I did not understand, and which I resented, that had arisen to give battle to my passions and desires.

  • It was a risk, however, that had to be run.

  • Not that they mistook their aim, but their distance; for their arrows all fell a little short of us, but with so true an aim, that had we been about twenty yards nearer we must have had several men wounded, if not killed.

  • I shall bee much bound to you for't: I am one, that had rather go with sir Priest, then sir knight: I care not who knowes so much of my mettle.

  • She wondered if the man who had given her the beautiful bauble, that had meant so much more to him than the intrinsic value which he had not even known could ever have meant to him, was back in his savage forest.

  • It had been a letter to this girl, penned by the fair hand of Jane Porter, that had carried to him the first message from the woman he loved.

  • One tender leaf she could not resist taking between her teeth, that had had so little else of late to bite on; and as she did so coarse laughter broke upon her.

  • And he fell on his knees beside her, and took her in his arms, and put his hand over the rose on her heart, that had ceased to beat.

  • And they watched the fire together, and smelled its smoke, that had as many smells as there were sorts of wood.

  • Briefly they related the sudden accident that had occurred, and described its fatal result.

  • As it happened, she did nothing of the kind, only her expression softened and became more wistful and earnest, and when she spoke again her voice was mellow with a suave gentleness, that had something in it of compassion.

  • With full heart, and voice almost unmanageable, Mary prompted the few simple words that had come to her in that hour of sorrow.

  • Mr. Wright little knew the discretion, or the happy power of accommodation to circumstances, that had descended to Meta's firstborn.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "that 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:
    hand figure; talk business; that are; that church; that end; that for; that great; that hath; that island; that isn; that kingdom; that matter; that means; that men; that night; that nothing; that now; that respect; that seemed; that there; that they; that woman; that word; that you; that young; union movement