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Example sentences of "[pron] had [verb] [pron] [vb infin] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	‘ I had seen them live and thought that they had an energy .
2	I repeated what I had seen him do .
3	One was my convict , and the other was the man who had run away when I had seen him near the shelter .
4	I had seen him turn human with Margaret , but that glimpse had not been enough to tell me now whether he had stopped on recognizing me for her sake or because I was a Benedict 's nurse .
5	In fact , it was one of the few times I had seen him act in a civil way towards his stepmother .
6	This was the first time I had seen him surf in the flesh , but for an entire month I had contemplated him pulling fearlessly into a vicious Pipeline tube when I should have been writing lectures .
7	It was the first time I had seen him reveal any emotion in his face , and it had something of the intensity of grief .
8	I had seen it happen at close quarters because I am his caddie .
9	" Some dogs do get over it , Wes. i did n't tell him that I had seen it happen only once .
10	But I was n't that clever , Alice , because I had to let him do it to me before , instead of after .
11	When they started dancing I did n't try and stop them because I had to let them do what they felt was right . ’
12	It was the first time I had heard him play great music , and I was moved as I had been by the Bonnards ; moved in a different way , but still moved .
13	Much later , searching my memory , I thought I had heard it say in deep and melancholy tones , ‘ Here , fellow outcast from society , if thou canst survive this night , draw strength from one who did not ! ’
14	I had to make him believe there was a good reason for my being constantly in the club . ’
15	And then I made a mistake , I felt it had all been a sacrifice in vain , I felt I had to make him appreciate what I 'd done , that he ought to let me go — so I tried to tell him .
16	But I had to make him keep you on .
17	What was unforgivable was that he had systematically lied to me — and I had let him do it .
18	If I had let him go to hospital the cost to the country would have been about £500 a week .
19	‘ Father Poole became very excited when I mentioned your name , and very annoyed when I told him I had let you go .
20	The Hibs manager , Alex Miller , was also disappointed , because leading scorer , Darren Jackson , had failed to shake off the stomach injury which had seen him miss the Scottish Cup victory over Cowdenbeath earlier in the week .
21	years which had seen him play in 62 Tests and make 189 dismissals , at the time the West Indian record by a street .
22	It had been the amount of blood flowing which had made him think that they were worse .
23	She had seen one like it before — well , almost like it .
24	She had seen people die , she had seen them give birth , she had chopped them into little pieces : more significantly , with Charles she had achieved orgasm , which she had never managed with Edgar .
25	They had noticed and she had seen them notice .
26	Karen , very tired and possibly a little drunk , realised slowly that she had seen him deploy this technique before , at an earlier dinner in the house , and that somehow it was probably quite offensive .
27	He was the biggest man in Polruan was Uncle Harry , a real giant of a man and once she had seen him knock a child over by mistake when all he had meant to do was cuff him playfully on the ear .
28	He looked like an old man suddenly and she realised how he had aged since she had seen him last .
29	At first she did n't recognise him , he was so much taller , so much gawkier than when she had seen him last .
30	He was sitting in the bar with a drink and the evening paper when she came down , and though he appeared not to notice her quiet descent until she was at the foot of the stairs , she had seen him shift his weight some seconds before he looked up , ready to spring to his feet and intercept her .