Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [adv] [vb pp] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had also angered him , though his anger seemed directed at himself . |
| 2 | This was untrue , but I had already lent him the money . ’ |
| 3 | I had already recognised him , but fifteen years or so , boy to man , is a big change , and I doubt if he got it . |
| 4 | I had already sent him a book , examples of my work , a letter about why and how I was doing the book , all for the sake of just one short interview . |
| 5 | He realised I had finally caught him … |
| 6 | I had just told him that on my arrival in South Africa I received a pressing invitation to Rhodesia , where I am now writing . |
| 7 | Now he was starting to cry , and I had never seen him cry before . |
| 8 | I had never seen him before in my life . |
| 9 | I had never seen him before . |
| 10 | I had never seen him actually smoking it . |
| 11 | I had never seen him before , but I had heard of him . |
| 12 | I had never done him any harm , yet I seemed to be the object of a deliberate campaign . |
| 13 | I had never met him before . |
| 14 | I had n't wanted him before he was born , and , though I had never neglected him physically , I had n't loved him in the way most mothers love their children . |
| 15 | The press were trying to build up a great rivalry between Ben and me , especially as I had never raced him . |
| 16 | I had never heard him talk so much . |
| 17 | ( 109 ) I had never known him ask a favour of this kind before . |
| 18 | There are numerous examples of the operative sense construed with to in British English as well : ( 112 ) I had never known him to pass the garden-gate before . |
| 19 | I had never had him down as a kerb-crawler either , but from the state of the car it looked as if it had had a good kicking . |
| 20 | I wanted to shout after him that I had made a mistake and that I had really understood him very well . |
| 21 | I had always suspected him of being rather more solid than the average person and this collision provided complete confirmation . |
| 22 | He had made many attempts to put his arms around me , but I had always evaded him . |
| 23 | I had always considered him , and still did in the absence of any other evidence , to be a sincere person , one who would do anything to fulfil his promises . |
| 24 | The Shah did no like Bakhtir - " I had always considered him an Anglophile and an agent of British Petroleum . " |
| 25 | I had always thought him to be egotistical and attention-seeking ; but apart from mentioning his invitation to the Dukakis Inaugural , he answered modestly , even humbly : praising his friend 's work and disparaging his own . |
| 26 | I had always admired him , ever since as a small boy I had seen him in his State robes in India . |
| 27 | He became angry , as though I had personally betrayed him by not giving him a boy . ’ |
| 28 | I had half expected him to begin raving about cursed women and sending Melinda to Asyut . |
| 29 | Frustrated but secretly delighted that I had maybe caught him out with shoddy workmanship until an old fellow from Bernera stopped to give me a lift on the way past Carlaway and showed me the right ones , just before the main stones of Callanish . |
| 30 | He took vulgar public revenge on me by mocking in the pages of Madame Bovary a seal I had once given him as a token of love . |