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Example sentences for "what had been done"

  • Lady Anna, though she had been told nothing of what had happened, except that her lover was hurt, at once surmised something of what had been done.

  • And he told with absolute truth the whole story, as far as he knew it, of what had been done in London during the last nine months.

  • The little Powell who had escaped from the savages, being forced to go a direction opposite to the house, proceeded to a station about eight miles off, & communicated intelligence of what had been done at Brain's.

  • The finding of his body, thus cruelly mangled, had given them the alarm, and they were already on their guard, before the two men from Hacker's creek arrived with the intelligence of what had been done there.

  • The people of the fort were quickly apprised of what had been done, and immediately turned out in pursuit; but could not trace the course taken by the savages.

  • Mrs. Jones and Captain De Baron did really grieve at what had been done, but to others, the tragedy coming after the comedy had not been painful.

  • Lord George, when he got out of the lawyer's office with his father-in-law, expressed himself as being very angry at what had been done.

  • The Dean said much more than this, urging the propriety of what had been done, but he did not succeed in quieting Lord George's mind.

  • Now, by Warden's evidence, but more still by the manner of Warden's death, he was forced to believe that there had been something unknown to him and terrible in what had been done then.

  • When I found that Warden had made me his executor and I went west and took charge of his affairs, their difficulties were intensified, for they did not dare to let suspicion of what had been done reach me.

  • Clearly there seemed to have been purpose in what had been done, and purpose which had not been confided to herself either by her father or Avery.

  • The three men were thus doomed to death, without trial, without hearing, without knowledge of what was going on against them; and without a hint of what had been done.

  • But that letter, was for Buncombe: it was for home consumption: it was to justify to the American people on the 24th of May, what had been done on the 12th of March.

  • After delivering the preceding speech in the senate, Cicero proceeded to the forum, where he delivered the following speech to the people, to give them information of what had been done.

  • At that time Gregory had received no intimation of what had been done in London, his brother's note not reaching him till the following morning.

  • That he should take joy in what had been done on his behalf was only natural; but as he stood with Gregory, waiting for his father to come to them, he showed no sign of joy.

  • And that the Deity might appear to participate in what had been done, public processions were made and solemn services performed, to thank him for the recovery of the government.

  • They then left the bishop, and in great wrath, informed their associates in the government, and all the families of the nobility, of what had been done.

  • What had been done therefore at his statue in the Place des Victoires, was done over again in the Place Vendome on the 13th August, after midday.

  • I represented to him that people would say I went on purpose to triumph over her at what had been done, and that she herself would look upon my presence as a kind of insult.

  • I fancy that Cardinal Dubois was much annoyed at what had been done, and that he would have liked to postpone the declaration yet a little longer.

  • It was arranged that Mr Arabin should know nothing of what had been done till he received the minister's letter from the hands of his embryo father-in-law.

  • What had been done at that scriptural banquet, of which Mrs Greenacre so often read the account to her family?

  • For days to come he positively felt the sting upon his cheek, whenever he thought of what had been done to him.

  • Lescure soon took Foret apart, and learnt from him the details of what had been done, while the father and son, and the two girls, endeavoured to put the postillion at his ease in his new position.

  • The rumour of what had been done at St. Florent, was also soon known in Coron, in Torfou, and in Clisson.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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