Example sentences of "he had [vb pp] me [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Oh , Tilly , it was a foolish thing … supposing he had seen me standing outside his house ? ’ |
| 2 | And he had seen me walking from my hotel apartment with Dana — Americano , he said disdainfully . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | I could n't believe he had asked me minutes after first meeting him . |
| 7 | He had heard me talking to the Princess . |
| 8 | There were moments when he took on too much ; and although I pursued the matter of our volume only because he had invited me to do so , I soon realized that I was asking more than I should have done , especially as I was uncertain at any moment whether my collaborators saw eye to eye with me about the scope of our project . |
| 9 | He was killed in the war , but by then he had got me made a member . |
| 10 | Whether he had been there by accident or whether he had spotted me arriving and slunk into position I shall never know , but from his point of view the result must have been eminently satisfactory because it was certainly the worst fright I have ever had . |
| 11 | My husband did n't like me talking about the theatre although he had encouraged me to do so when we were courting . |
| 12 | Without realizing it he had let me know that using French words , however few and halting , has a bewitching effect upon everything in London , animate and inanimate alike . |