Had this happened?
Vronsky had never had a real home life.
She had had servants, and food and clothes, but no one had taken any notice of her.
While Niyah had hardly had a privileged upbringing, these boys had had it tougher.
She had not had any children’s books when she was growing up.
She had bought a tin of spaghetti that had a very slight dent in it.
At first, just 511 of them had high antibody levels; 42 had low levels; and 71 had none.
The other had been on the second floor of a temple, and had had books, but they were kept locked in glass-fronted cabinets.
She had always been proud of her son’s intelligence, which he had inherited, she had to admit, from his father.
One by one, they had disappeared from Scientology, and it had never occurred to Haggis to ask where they had gone.
The crucial tenth game had been a draw, and although I had lost the fifteenth, even Kubrick admitted that he had had an amazingly close call.
He had had no title or formal position with the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee; he had tried to get one, I had learned from other files, but had been rebuffed.
She told him how much she had had to bear in seeing the house filled with a crowd of wicked suitors who had killed so many sheep and oxen on her account, and had drunk so many casks of wine.
Only 1.4 per cent had exclusively had kissing-only partners, but the proportion of these men testing positive for throat gonorrhoea was higher than for those who had had only sex without kissing.
Weiner said that he had had inappropriate internet communications with six women, some of which had happened after he had married Huma Abedin, a close aide to the secretary of state Hillary Clinton.
She felt as if she had been on a long journey, and at any rate she had had something to amuse her all the time, and she had played with the ivory elephants and had seen the gray mouse and its babies in their nest in the velvet cushion.
For many years of her life she had had two sons; but the crime and annihilation of Edward a few weeks ago, had robbed her of one; the similar annihilation of Robert had left her for a fortnight without any; and now, by the resuscitation of Edward, she had one again.
By the end of “Voyage,” several things had happened: a human-size ginger cat had made an enigmatic cameo, Alexander Pushkin had been shot, Herzen had been exiled to Siberia, the sun had set in Russia, and Mark and Glover had exchanged numbers.
She had felt as if she had understood a robin and that he had understood her; she had run in the wind until her blood had grown warm; she had been healthily hungry for the first time in her life; and she had found out what it was to be sorry for some one.
A large stone had served as a wedge; flints and pebbles had been inserted around it, so as to conceal the orifice; this species of masonry had been covered with earth, and grass and weeds had grown there, moss had clung to the stones, myrtle-bushes had taken root, and the old rock seemed fixed to the earth.
had
noun person
- a person who possesses great material wealth
verb possession
- have or possess, either in a concrete or an abstract sense
verb stative
- have as a feature
verb perception
- go through (mental or physical states or experiences)
verb possession
- have ownership or possession of
verb change
- cause to move; cause to be in a certain position or condition
verb consumption
- serve oneself to, or consume regularly
verb social
- have a personal or business relationship with someone
verb creation
- organize or be responsible for
verb possession
- have left
verb stative
- be confronted with
verb change
- undergo
Example: The stocks had a fast run-up
verb body
- suffer from; be ill with
verb communication
- cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner
verb possession
- receive willingly something given or offered
verb possession
- get something; come into possession of
verb body
- undergo (as of injuries and illnesses)
verb possession
- achieve a point or goal
Example: Nicklaus had a 70
verb body
- cause to be born
Example: My wife had twins yesterday!
verb contact
- have sex with; archaic use
Example: He had taken this woman when she was most vulnerable
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A large stone had served as a wedge flints and pebbles had been inserted around it so as to conceal the orifice this species of masonry had been covered with earth and grass and weeds had grown there moss had clung to the stones myrtle-bushes had taken root and the old rock seemed fixed to the earth