bespeak
verb (used with object)
to ask for in advance.
had bespoken
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past perfectof bespeak.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Strether in due course accompanied his friend to the room he had bespoken and had, before going out, scrupulously visited; where at the end of another half-hour he had no less discreetly left him.
From The Ambassadors by James, Henry
When he arrived everything had bespoken him a man aggressively positive with the habit of being sure.
From The Street Called Straight by Lowell, Orson
He had bespoken at Head Quarters W. Kitchener's co-operation in the quest and was relying on it; but a column commander on trek in partibus Boerum is hard to find, and no instructions reached Kitchener.
From A Handbook of the Boer War With General Map of South Africa and 18 Sketch Maps and Plans by
She was able to identity from her own experience a liquid called scream, of which Dave had bespoken a large jug full, to be taken to Dolly on his return home.
From When Ghost Meets Ghost by De Morgan, William Frend
H. was speedily transferred to their hotel, where they had bespoken rooms for us; and we sallied forth to the court church to hear the music of high mass.
From Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2 by Stowe, Harriet Beecher
