Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] he in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I met Kirk and started to work with him , I sort of felt I 'd known him in some other life . |
| 2 | Not for the first time , Beth asked herself how she could so readily condemn David for being so weak as to love someone who had treated him in such a callous and despicable manner , when she herself was guilty of the very same weakness ! |
| 3 | Until top jockey Mark Dwyer was handed the plum ride on Jodami this season , the trainer 's daughter Anthea and her husband Patrick Farrell had partnered him in all his races . |
| 4 | This from eight-year-old Leslie who had let him in earlier . |
| 5 | The fat boy had mated him in four moves . |
| 6 | A witness had seen him in deep water , shouting and waving for help . |
| 7 | That long white robe I had seen him in that night was a sort of hospital gown . |
| 8 | To begin with , they thought that the Robemaker had injured him in some unimaginable way , for the crimson mask still had him in its grip and in the flickering light , it looked for a moment as if the lower part of his face was covered in blood . |
| 9 | George had told him in private the reason for Sarah Butler being packed off to Leeds , and he had realised then that her infatuation for George was an obsession . |
| 10 | He had been trained to recognise anybody who had served under him , or who had helped him in any way . |
| 11 | Sarah Fleming had unsettled him in more ways than one . |
| 12 | An administrative career , and after 1848 his Bonapartist background , had led him in 1852 to the important prefectorate of Bordeaux , where he had hosted the famous reception in November of that year at which Louis-Napoleon in the course of his official speech had virtually inaugurated the Empire . |
| 13 | He would have preferred , I knew , to keep them at home , but Ruth , his wife , had overruled him in that , as she did in quite a few other matters . |
| 14 | He was fretted by the thought of Kate , back at the scene of crime by now , and he felt a spurt of resentment against Dalgliesh who had involved him in this irrelevant mess . |
| 15 | I wondered if I had offended him in some way . |
| 16 | She had liked him in those days and some of that liking still remained , resented , only half-acknowledged , but bound up with memories of sunlit walks in Port Meadow , luncheon and laughter in Hugo 's rooms , with the years of hope and promise . |
| 17 | When he stood there was blood all over the white shirt his mother had dressed him in that morning . |
| 18 | These shoes had stood him in good stead . |
| 19 | His loyalty had stood him in good stead after the restoration , and he was now a commissioner of police for religious conformity — a post which did not prevent him from working in any other area which Horemheb , through the king , saw fit to appoint him to . |
| 20 | Captain Stephen Roskill , the official naval historian , had told me that Dönitz had informed him in 1959 that he had no reason to think that the German naval codes had been broken . |