had suborned
- past perfect of suborn.
Example Sentences
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This was in response to charges that the CIA had suborned an officer in Germany’s intelligence service.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 12, 2014
When she narrated the repeated failures of the champions she had suborned and Almo's uniform success, Commodus was in ecstasy.
From The Unwilling Vestal by White, Edward Lucas
He has acquiesced in Macbeth's accession, and in the official theory that Duncan's sons had suborned the chamberlains to murder him.
From Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by Bradley, A. C. (Andrew Cecil)
One Étienne Barthélemy was next arrested: he admitted that he had ‘financed’ Mirabel during the trial, but denied that he had suborned any witnesses.
From Cock Lane and Common-Sense by Lang, Andrew
No one rejoiced at the death of the hero save the traitors who had lured him to his doom and the Poitevins who had suborned them.
From The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377) by Hunt, William
