had
simple past tense and past participle of have.
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How to use had in a sentence
And why do they feel such a need to commit Jen-icide or declare Angie-had on behalf of celebrities they will never meet?
She had-208- gone away to Heidelberg to do obeisance to Gubaryov, and was returning with instructions.
Smoke | Turgenev Ivan SergeevichIf hadde is emphatic, meaning 'he possessed,' it is usually dissyllabic; we even find had-d he (A 298, 386).
Chaucer's Works, Volume 6 (of 7) -- Introduction, Glossary, and Indexes | Geoffrey ChaucerThe central part of it, where we have long-had an acquaintance with the natives, is called by them "Mai."
Life of John Coleridge Patteson | Charlotte M. YongeI was on the seafaring-man-who-had-lost-his-clothes-and-money tack, and they all condoled with me and gave me much sound advice.
The People of the Abyss | Jack London
And Bills used to say ef it hadn't a-be'n fer Ezry he'd a-never a-had no house, ner nothin' to putt in it, nuther!
Neghborly Poems and Dialect Sketches | James Whitcomb Riley
British Dictionary definitions for had
/ (hæd) /
the past tense and past participle of have
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Other Idioms and Phrases with had
In addition to the idioms beginning with had
- had better
- had enough
- had it
- had its day, has
- had one's fill
- had rather
, also see under
- have
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