Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] had [verb] me [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ All right , ’ I had said listlessly , disconcerting my mother considerably , since I was perfectly aware that she had expected me to turn down this preposterous proposal with as much intractability as I had turned down the others . |
| 2 | I told her that you had sent me to try to trap her into making unwary and unguarded statements and unwittingly to betray herself . |
| 3 | My husband did n't like me talking about the theatre although he had encouraged me to do so when we were courting . |
| 4 | It fulfilled none of my expectations and seemed to be merely trying to make me laugh at the fact that it had left me standing there grasping at nothing . |
| 5 | I thought that he was already a man when I was born , that he had seen me growing up , and I thought of the strange , sad , frightening creatures who haunted the borders of the woods watching the children play . |
| 6 | Well the first crane I drove was a was only at that so I was stuck on one of them and I had to sling me grab all the time and this , this bridge come round and miss the bridge and go over it and rush it down to the hold . |
| 7 | If you had asked me to describe one of the Whistler 's victims that 's exactly how I should have seen her . |
| 8 | And he had seen me walking from my hotel apartment with Dana — Americano , he said disdainfully . |
| 9 | ‘ Oh , Tilly , it was a foolish thing … supposing he had seen me standing outside his house ? ’ |
| 10 | It would have run the other way if it had heard me coming . |
| 11 | There were moments when he took on too much ; and although I pursued the matter of our volume only because he had invited me to do so , I soon realized that I was asking more than I should have done , especially as I was uncertain at any moment whether my collaborators saw eye to eye with me about the scope of our project . |
| 12 | Whether he had been there by accident or whether he had spotted me arriving and slunk into position I shall never know , but from his point of view the result must have been eminently satisfactory because it was certainly the worst fright I have ever had . |
| 13 | ‘ Not so averse to the boy as you had led me to believe , eh ? ’ |
| 14 | My mother had taught me that , just as she had taught me to change my underclothes daily and not blow my nose in public . |
| 15 | And my magic wrought true — for it was into your time I came , to Starr Hills , where I had walked four hundred years before ; and coming to meet me was a man who asked me simply if I were a mermaid , for he had seen me walking out of the sea . ’ |