Example sentences of "had [vb pp] him [prep] her " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was fluent , learned , a man of books , and yet , she had heard him with her father on small points , as sharp as a tinker … too many false trails , too many different scents … as if he , too , were puzzling over his path … |
| 2 | She had written to him while he was in prison but had received no reply , but then she had excused him in her own mind , telling herself he would be free soon , then he would come home to her and make her his bride . |
| 3 | She had startled him with her headlong flight . |
| 4 | Her last words to him had been a curse yet she had felt him at her side on the day she had marched to York with Richard Oastler . |
| 5 | But for some reason , Tina had adopted him in her rough , kindly way , and for the last few months school life had been bearable . |
| 6 | But more importantly she had buried him in her heart . |
| 7 | Lucy had told him about her desperate moment when the car refused to start outside the clinic . |
| 8 | She had told him about her broken engagement and how deeply hurt and wary she had felt after it . |
| 9 | From her own questioning she had made sure that Mr Miller bought only the best puppies from reliable breeders and , in turn , she had told him of her own circumstances . |
| 10 | One incident in particular had convinced him of her genuineness . |
| 11 | His generosity had got her out of gaol , and she had misled him about her sailing ability . |
| 12 | Edith was already up , and had awoken him with her cries of woe when she drew back the heavy plush curtains to discover grey skies and drizzle . |
| 13 | Buffy the pug was dead long ago ; between them the family had replaced him in her affections . |
| 14 | Only Anthea 's insistence had brought him to her room , where matters had taken their own turn . |
| 15 | He had started to move forward but Maggie had fixed him with her clear grey eyes and he knew what she knew herself — break into this now and Ana would refuse to stay here . |
| 16 | Within a day a portrait of the deceased as he might have looked in life had been produced , and by Wednesday a woman living on a council estate south of the river had identified him as her next-door neighbour , Mr Chant . |
| 17 | His instinct for self preservation had warned him of her move long before she had made it . |