Example sentences of "he had [vb pp] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had kissed her on the nose , and they had strolled around their small domain , debating what else they should do to the garden . |
| 2 | If he had kissed her with passion or some brutal demand to impose his will on her then she could have found the strength to fight him , but there was no way she could resist this aching tenderness , this joining that made them one whole . |
| 3 | She snuggled down and began to drift to sleep , memories of Alain holding her here as she wept on that first day , memories of him bringing her up to bed after he had kissed her in the kitchen , fluttering like moths in the light , easing her into sleep . |
| 4 | He was not much older than Peter and he looked puzzled , as if wondering not only how to end this conversation but how he had begun it in the first place . |
| 5 | He was sorry that he had criticized her to himself , for hiding in the kitchen , for not being attractive . |
| 6 | The warmth that had come with his laughter faded , and she felt he had tricked her into saying more than she intended . |
| 7 | He had boxed her into a corner there had been no other way out of . |
| 8 | He felt very weak , however , and every so often he retched convulsively , though without vomiting for he had consumed nothing except a little water in the past twenty-four hours . |
| 9 | He had accosted her in a public place , and yet she had n't screamed , or run , or asked for help . |
| 10 | They had all learned from him ; she and Lisa still spoke , stylistically , as he had taught them to . |
| 11 | All the same , the theme is still national honour and personal loyalty , the lessons which Dick teaches to Anastasia as successfully as he had taught them to the weak but responsive Carol . |
| 12 | He would later swear that he had cautioned me about this the previous night . |
| 13 | He had cast himself as the Devil , and David Poole ( a couple of years older , although also a newcomer to dancing ) as the leading soldier . |
| 14 | Now the name was not a famous one , the cloth merchant having lived his life in the comparative obscurity common to most of us , and my patient had never before visited that part of the country — and yet the details he unearthed coincided perfectly with the facts he had given me during his regression . |
| 15 | Before they left , Gallardo shook Valenzuela 's hand and thanked him for the cigarettes he had given him in captivity . |
| 16 | Because er , he he he had given them of of how he had become a Christian , he had become a minister of Jesus Christ and so on , he says , for this reason I suffer these things , but I am not ashamed , for I know whom I have believed . |
| 17 | Several women friends of Waddell said that he had given them within days of the murder large sums of money ; and a barman to whom Waddell had given £1000 for safe keeping said Waddell had told him he had won a packet on the horses . |
| 18 | And what he was saying seemed to be in direct conflict to the hurtful reasons for their marriage he had given her on the drawbridge yesterday . |
| 19 | He snatched his furniture from the house and dumped it on a tip , then took the car which he had given her as a present away for scrap . |
| 20 | She recalled the swift bruising kiss he had given her in the restaurant . |
| 21 | Not a gentle kiss , nor yet as punishing as the last one he had given her in her room , but it was urgent and demanding and was all the encouragement she needed . |
| 22 | Remembering the kiss he had given her after breakfast it seemed as if their relationship might at long last have changed . |
| 23 | He had given it to his youngest daughter , Margaret , when she trained as a nurse at Benedict 's just after the last World War . |
| 24 | It was n't until almost his last breath that he told her of the board beneath his bed and what was under it , assuring her he had saved it for her . |
| 25 | Last night he had discovered something about himself , and , as it happened , something about Rose Hilaire . |
| 26 | Matilda later reported that as her father tore off her veil , he swore ‘ that he had destined me as a wife for Count Alan rather than for a community of nuns ’ . |
| 27 | John gave the leading part , of the woman whose husband is drowned , to a young dancer he had not previously created for , although he had partnered her in Khadra , Sheilah O'Reilly . |
| 28 | He had wanted her almost from the first moment , and he had loved her for nearly as long . |
| 29 | He thought he had loved her from the moment he set eyes on her . |
| 30 | He had written something on a scrap of paper and folded it over at the bottom . |