Had in a sentence
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He had another drink.
Nothing had happened.
That was a way she had.
We had a good trip together.
He had been hit in the spine.
I had a row with Dick Boulton.
Someone had the bull by the tail.
He had to stop and wash his hands.
Dick had three axes under his arm.
His throat had been cut from ear to ear.
She had to have it but it frightened her.
He had changed since his New Haven years.
Horthy’s men had done some bad things to him.
She had been trying to have her baby for two days.
The prisoners had been brought in for the hanging.
All the old women in the camp had been helping her.
The guards who had been holding him up dropped him.
She did not know what had become of the baby or anything.
Jim had her dress up and was trying to do something to her.
The last I heard of him the Swiss had him in jail near Sion.
He had cut his foot very badly with an ax three days before.
He had been like that since about four o’clock in the morning.
He had been in many towns, walked much, and seen many pictures.
And I had the high intention of reading many other books besides.
He had casually conferred on me the freedom of the neighbourhood.
The blood had flowed down into a pool where his body sagged the bunk.
If Kerensky had shot a few men things might have been altogether different.
He had no money, and they fed him behind the counter in railway eating houses.
It occurred to me now that I had seen her, or a picture of her, somewhere before.
He did not understand English but he had sweat all the time the row was going on.
The doctor came running from the corral, where he had been sewing up picador horses.
Ag would not come home until he had a good job and could come to New York to meet her.
We were frightfully put out when we heard the flank had gone, and we had to fall back.
He had so much equipment on and looked awfully surprised and fell down into the garden.
He had to polish it from morning till night, until finally it began to affect his nose—
Eddy and Billy Tabeshaw had rocked the log out of the wet sand and rolled it toward the water.
The men had moved off up the road to sit in the dark and smoke out of range of the noise she made.
Liz was terribly frightened, no one had ever touched her, but she thought, “He’s come to me finally.”
Tom Buchanan, who had been hovering restlessly about the room, stopped and rested his hand on my shoulder.
Liz had good legs and always wore clean gingham aprons and Jim noticed that her hair was always neat behind.
The logs had been lost from the big log booms that were towed down the lake to the mill by the steamer Magic.
The hemlock planks of the dock were hard and splintery and cold and Jim was heavy on her and he had hurt her.
When they operated on him she prepared him for the operating table; and they had a joke about friend or enema.
Jim had his arm around her and every little way they stopped and pressed against each other and Jim kissed her.
Nick sat against the wall of the church where they had dragged him to be clear of machine gun fire in the street.
When they had to say goodbye, in the station at Milan, they kissed goodbye, but were not finished with the quarrel.
They wanted to get married, but there was not enough time for the banns, and neither of them had birth certificates.
The pink wall of the house opposite had fallen out from the roof, and an iron bedstead hung twisted toward the street.
I told her how I had stopped off in Chicago for a day on my way East, and how a dozen people had sent their love through me.
There was a touch of paternal contempt in it, even toward people he liked—and there were men at New Haven who had hated his guts.
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