Example sentences of "had [verb] me [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I took it for granted I 'd just been lying there since I went out , and whoever had jumped me had made off and left me there . |
| 2 | In a typically Chinese way , when I was discharged , the doctor who had treated me escorted me to the car , and shook hands and asked if I had any complaints , as he knew the hospital left plenty of room for improvement . |
| 3 | But we all went swimming on Tuesday nights at Hamilton baths , and I did better than some because my father had taught me to swim on holiday . |
| 4 | My father had taught me to do a proper somersault . |
| 5 | Mme Deloche became my mentor during this period , and for years after I left France , I used to send her Oxford Marmalade , Bath Olivers and Christmas puddings in exchange for the things she had taught me to make . |
| 6 | My mother had taught me that , just as she had taught me to change my underclothes daily and not blow my nose in public . |
| 7 | But the contract I agreed to sign on behalf of Jean-Claude was a very different one from the one M. Chaillot had intended me to sign . |
| 8 | It would have run the other way if it had heard me coming . |
| 9 | He had heard me talking to the Princess . |
| 10 | Their noise had stopped me sleeping : shouting , shattering glass , the word ‘ police ’ echoing here and there . |
| 11 | The crime of syphilis had made me ban sex from my mind for weeks ; now I was found not guilty half an hour with a textbook Conchis had given me to look at had convinced me his diagnosis was right — the libido rose strong . |
| 12 | ‘ All right , ’ I had said listlessly , disconcerting my mother considerably , since I was perfectly aware that she had expected me to turn down this preposterous proposal with as much intractability as I had turned down the others . |
| 13 | Was that why Benjamin had let me go ? |
| 14 | he could wander rou , if only Joey had let me do more |
| 15 | She had let me see a draft of it , and I fancied that she had been a little timid about the dénouement , which was death in a motor accident , and feared that her own terrible anxiety over her son in the past might have inhibited her . |
| 16 | Felipe had let me drive around the hacienda but I had never been on a road . ’ |
| 17 | They had let me slip through the net earlier ; they would n't exactly be fans of mine . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It was an hour later that they came back and by then the Jewish family had let me know exactly what was happening in Germany , and my game had become rather more serious . |
| 20 | As it was , I already knew of their resignation as both had phoned me to see if I would give them backing in a boardroom coup . |
| 21 | God knows what had possessed me to put my proper name on my real driving licence , but once it goes into the DVLC computer , it stays . |
| 22 | Half the racing world had seen me pick up Nolan and knew I could defend myself . |
| 23 | ‘ Oh , Tilly , it was a foolish thing … supposing he had seen me standing outside his house ? ’ |
| 24 | If anyone had seen me bent over a motorbike with my ear pressed to the back of a Transit van outside the Barbican that morning , probably nobody would have looked twice . |
| 25 | And he had seen me walking from my hotel apartment with Dana — Americano , he said disdainfully . |
| 26 | 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 . ’ |
| 27 | In desperation , he might appeal to witnesses who had seen me sitting on the bench in the park while he was talking to my double outside . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Then , a long-standing commitment had seen me jet off abroad … to disaster . |
| 30 | Once Nour had made me laugh , but then I had laughed — like the nuns — more from happiness than mirth . |