Example sentences of "he had [verb] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Living with him had made her feel middle-aged , yet she was still only twenty-two , and it was wonderful to be free again . |
| 2 | She remembered how she had ridiculously thought meeting him had left her tingling , and was then able to scoff at such a fanciful notion . |
| 3 | When he had begun she had been inclined to send him off or run away herself ; but his determination had kept her listening and she had watched him walk away with his plan — it was more of a plan than a proposal — well lodged in her mind and unexpectedly endearing . |
| 4 | Once he had begun he did n't feel nervous , he spoke slowly and levelly , and once his part was over he began to enjoy the rest of the proceedings . |
| 5 | If he had to go I think that was the way he would have wanted it |
| 6 | He had to go you see , but I mean er later in my lifetime when we lived in the in the village at I can remember very very well the the er the miners there er going to work and then coming home again , going to work and coming home again , nothing for them to do . |
| 7 | It was as though they had returned to the relationship there had been between them on Ridgery Butts when he had taught her to use the bow , and encouraged her with gentle praise . |
| 8 | Beyond the few meadows on this apron of land that girdled the house on the lochside , the hills rose again , hills as individual and familiar to her as people , whose slopes and habits she knew intimately , walking them year in , year out with her father , the gun he had taught her to use broken carefully in the crook of her arm . |
| 9 | She did n't answer , for the simple reason that she could n't think of anything to say because the smile he had given her had been so totally unlike any other he had turned in her direction , so warm , and devastating , crinkling his eyes … |
| 10 | She was amazed at his ambition ; he had given her to understand he wanted to give up the theatre . |
| 11 | After the events of the night she met his gaze self-consciously , grateful for the excuse he had given her to drop her eyes . |
| 12 | I remembered only too well Mrs Reed 's description of my character , and the promise he had given her to warn teachers at Lowood about my wickedness . |
| 13 | She hoped that if he said he had discovered she met Scott Fitzgerald she would be able to treat the suggestion with the seriousness Tim would think it deserved . |
| 14 | She did n't like the sound of the ‘ second skin' bit at all , and the way he had kidnapped her had been terrifying . |
| 15 | Looking again at the words he had written he realized that his face was once more tightening , his lips once again curling . |
| 16 | He had retired he 'd retired about ten years . |
| 17 | When Waterman finally got a glimpse of the superstar he had created he saw a Kylie unlike anything he had seen before . |
| 18 | After travelling to the Frankfurt Sports Fair he had wanted them to stock Adidas Forest Hills ( white leather , gold stripes ) . |
| 19 | In those early months he had wanted her to know the magnitude of what he had done and that he had done it for her . |
| 20 | Or , perhaps , it had the meaning he had wanted it to have from the beginning : the meaning that had kept him out of coups led by others . |
| 21 | He had made her suffer and further imprisoned himself by doing so . |
| 22 | It was that he had made her betray herself . |
| 23 | He had made her laugh . |
| 24 | In those moments he had made her want things that some feminine instinct knew only he could provide . |
| 25 | He had made her laugh several times , had laughed once at something she 'd said , she recalled , and the entire evening had gone by on winged feet . |
| 26 | He had an innocent manner about him too , and he had made her feel at ease despite her natural reserve . |
| 27 | Even after he had made them known , he had made it virtually impossible for voters to express their agreement with his views ( by refusing to patronize the Union Gaulliste or some equivalent ) . |
| 28 | I had not thought my friends dull , but he had made them seem so . |
| 29 | Ronald Chalmers 's term of office as vice-chairman had been a year only , he said , and he had made it know that he did not want to be considered for an office-bearer 's position . |
| 30 | First he 'd whisked her away without so much as a by-your-leave , and then he had blocked her meeting with Adam . |