Example sentences of "[pron] had [verb] me [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It was that sense which had brought me to Munding , which had set me hunting the Green Man in the woods . |
| 3 | She had nagged me to accept it , but now she behaved as though I had done her a disservice by doing so . |
| 4 | My mother had taught me that , just as she had taught me to change my underclothes daily and not blow my nose in public . |
| 5 | Mme Deloche became my mentor during this period , and for years after I left France , I used to send her Oxford Marmalade , Bath Olivers and Christmas puddings in exchange for the things she had taught me to make . |
| 6 | This she had made me promise when I was nine and she continued to insist that my refusal to live my life her way was selfishness and rank ingratitude . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | She had let me see a draft of it , and I fancied that she had been a little timid about the dénouement , which was death in a motor accident , and feared that her own terrible anxiety over her son in the past might have inhibited her . |
| 9 | In a typically Chinese way , when I was discharged , the doctor who had treated me escorted me to the car , and shook hands and asked if I had any complaints , as he knew the hospital left plenty of room for improvement . |
| 10 | In desperation , he might appeal to witnesses who had seen me sitting on the bench in the park while he was talking to my double outside . |
| 11 | The SS man who had told me to find him seemed to be particularly irritated by this information . |
| 12 | I had more or less finished when the copper who had pulled me appeared from the back office and lifted the flap in the desk to get by me . |
| 13 | In the camp canteen I looked for the woman who had encouraged me to come to what , by the minute , I was beginning to feel was a god-forsaken hole . |
| 14 | If you had asked me to describe one of the Whistler 's victims that 's exactly how I should have seen her . |
| 15 | I told her that you had sent me to try to trap her into making unwary and unguarded statements and unwittingly to betray herself . |
| 16 | The way Simon 's triumphantly smug statements of impending fatherhood and marriage with you had made me suffer . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Not so averse to the boy as you had led me to believe , eh ? ’ |
| 18 | I took it for granted I 'd just been lying there since I went out , and whoever had jumped me had made off and left me there . |
| 19 | They had let me slip through the net earlier ; they would n't exactly be fans of mine . |
| 20 | What they had told me put quite a different complexion on the ‘ mystery ’ . |
| 21 | And I was v the and my grandmother , they had got me hooked on horses then . |
| 22 | Did she not realize just how awful it had made me feel ? |
| 23 | It would have run the other way if it had heard me coming . |
| 24 | ( It had surprised me to find how fussy he was about some things ; dust , and scrappy meals really bothered him . ) |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ Oh , Tilly , it was a foolish thing … supposing he had seen me standing outside his house ? ’ |
| 27 | And he had seen me walking from my hotel apartment with Dana — Americano , he said disdainfully . |
| 28 | 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 . ’ |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | He had asked me to go and work with him when he opened The Chicago Rib Shack , but I told him I thought the location was wrong . ’ |