Example sentences of "i had [vb pp] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way , because I had misunderstood him a bit . |
| 2 | When I had made him as comfortable as I could — a relative term , since he was in pain with each new spasm — I cut the two blankets into strips , each one two feet or so wide . |
| 3 | I had kept him waiting for over an hour , though he was n't too annoyed as he had been able to retrieve three brand new titanium ice screws and a rope , left , we presumed , after an incident the night before when we had a helicopter hovering above the face . |
| 4 | As we talked , I felt that if I had pressed him he would have loaned it to me anyway , but the Land Rover was necessary for the research programme and it would have been irresponsible to put John 's work at risk . |
| 5 | He looked taller than I had imagined him : it was said that the platforms on which he stood always had an elevated section in the middle to raise him up . |
| 6 | Would n't speak to me for six months , but then his natural goodness of heart , as well perhaps as his gradual realization that I might have been right , that perhaps I had saved him from a fate worse than death , made it impossible for him to keep it up . |
| 7 | Within ten minutes he was on the move again but came towards me very fast and swam into the weeds that formed the roof over the hole where I had hooked him in the first place . |
| 8 | Maybe you only get one chance at a fish like that — a particular fish anyway — and I blew my chance through not planning what I was going to do after I had hooked him . |
| 9 | I was told that I would have to take a strange aircraft that night , I learnt that my aircraft had been damaged by flak — and Italian flak to boot — and one of my lads was in hiding as he claimed I had threatened him with dire punishment if he damaged my aircraft . |
| 10 | Before he had time to realize that I was there , I had killed him . |
| 11 | And I had killed him ! |
| 12 | My driver was under the impression that I had instructed him to break the world land-speed record . |
| 13 | I thought that Ben had n't had anything left when I had beaten him in the second round the previous day . |
| 14 | I had built him up to play it right to the heart of the green but he played it like a nervous three handicapper . |
| 15 | I had lost him . |
| 16 | ‘ You had deliberately led me to believe that you 'd picked up a stranger in Bruges , and naturally I had assumed him to be a Belgian . ’ |
| 17 | This was the first time I had seen him since the landings . |
| 18 | I remembered the last time I had seen him , on the half-landing on the stairs , and how we looked at one another — as if he had sensed it would be our last encounter — and had shaken hands and said goodbye . |
| 19 | One afternoon I had seen him painfully sewing on a shirt-button . |
| 20 | This was the first time I had seen him surf in the flesh , but for an entire month I had contemplated him pulling fearlessly into a vicious Pipeline tube when I should have been writing lectures . |
| 21 | He looked happier than I had seen him for weeks and there was colour in his cheeks . |
| 22 | Perhaps I was sent to the chippie , or café up the street to fetch cigarettes , or lemonade , or to go at full haste and deliver a note to one of his girl-friends ; or maybe he simply wanted to chastise me for something I had done , as for instance when I inadvertently got him into hot water by mentioning to Mum that I had seen him with a girl ( an infamous young woman ) after he had faithfully promised not to see her again , ever . |
| 23 | In fact , it was one of the few times I had seen him act in a civil way towards his stepmother . |
| 24 | I had never met the head of governors , Dr Arnold Barton , though I had seen him at several functions , a thin , tall , stern-faced , lantern-jawed streak of a man who rarely seemed to smile . |
| 25 | I had seen him around , frequently . |
| 26 | I had seen him turn human with Margaret , but that glimpse had not been enough to tell me now whether he had stopped on recognizing me for her sake or because I was a Benedict 's nurse . |
| 27 | It was the first time I had seen him reveal any emotion in his face , and it had something of the intensity of grief . |
| 28 | One was my convict , and the other was the man who had run away when I had seen him near the shelter . |
| 29 | Magwitch seemed quieter and more likeable than the last time I had seen him . |
| 30 | The last time I had seen him , on the night of the fire , he had held my hands , told me I had saved his life , and looked at me as if he loved me . |