Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] he [adv] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was the first time she had addressed him directly since take off . |
| 2 | It would not be simple at all , because nothing she had told him so far had been trusted . |
| 3 | Maria Filippa understood his lassitude , condoned his inertia ; and for that he felt an overwhelming gratitude , because he knew other wives who would have grown impatient with such a husband , who had begun so promising , so full of the future and then … what with headaches , lack of nerve , had found he no longer had the energy , the stomach for getting on . |
| 4 | Despite her indulgence of him , she had kept him very much tied to her apron strings and had had great difficulty in relinquishing him to a wife . |
| 5 | The thought that she had failed him so awkwardly added to the weight of her pain . |