Holmes was sitting with his back to me, and I had given him no sign of my occupation.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
I stood upon the hearth-rug and picked up the stick which our visitor had left behind him the night before.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
“Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone,” he told me, “just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
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Merriam-Webster
— past tense and past participle of HAVE
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— the past tense and past participle of have
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Other Word Forms
has
have
having
Usage
381 uses of ‘had’ in The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
506 uses of ‘had’ in The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Arthur Conan Doyle