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had

[ had ]

verb

  1. simple past tense and past participle of have.


had

/ æ /

verb

  1. the past tense and past participle of have
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And it's true that their dramatic reaction has had some success in tempering some of his worst impulses.

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O'Neill had cut short a family holiday so that plans could be made to attend the funeral.

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Police Scotland said it had a dedicated team gathering hundreds of pieces of evidence to build cases against those responsible for the attacks.

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The court heard Felton was distressed after finding out he was the father of a fellow teacher's child and had recently discovered Mr Pyke was in a relationship with the same teacher.

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Many Zamzam residents had been there for two decades, after escaping previous conflicts in Darfur.

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