Example sentences of "had [verb] me [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My interests , after making a lifelong detour through the natural sciences , medicine and psychotherapy , returned to the cultural problems which had fascinated me long before , when I was a youth scarcely old enough for thinking . |
| 2 | Leslie had taught me how to live , and the war how to endure . |
| 3 | I decided to work with the market women 's organization , ASUTRAMES , because my mother had a market stall and I would help her , and because the community had taught me how important it was to claim our rights . |
| 4 | But my father had taught me how to make them on my arm , fox-bites . |
| 5 | ( At that time nobody had taught me how to preserve them to keep as specimens . |
| 6 | My father , a policeman , had taught me how to do this years before . |
| 7 | It was the Officer who had turfed me out of the church yesterday when I was playing the bagpipes . |
| 8 | Below , on the terrace , Marie Claire had heard me open the windows . |
| 9 | They found the picture of Jill that Sayeed had given me more than eighteen months before . |
| 10 | I was uncomfortable talking about the poems and Rory 's papers ; the bag lost on the train coming back from Lochgair at the start of the year had stayed lost , and — stuck with just the memory of the half-finished stuff that Janice had given me originally — I 'd given up on any idea I 'd ever had of trying to rescue Uncle Rory 's name from artistic oblivion , or discovering some great revelation in the texts . |
| 11 | I do n't know what the drink was — brandy or whisky — I had that much , I had it twice , so that the lads had to see me home because I was more or less drunk . |
| 12 | I caught it with the jet of flame and it zipped off out of range , heading for the water by the side of the hill the savage buck had attacked me on . |
| 13 | Later , the knowledge filtered through to me that the two ruffians — escaped prisoners like myself , without a doubt — had attacked me solely on account of my fire . |
| 14 | I had this idea they had booked me in for a Caesarean because I 'm small , but had n't told me . |
| 15 | I was by then realizing something that had eluded me before , about the fleeing nymphs . |
| 16 | Harvey and Signe had hustled me out of there too quickly . |
| 17 | But readers can appreciate my reason for feeling that brother Louis had let me down badly . |
| 18 | had let me down I 'd have gone over everyone 's head and rung Matron 's flat . |
| 19 | If someone had sat me down when I was young and said , ‘ All right , tell us your problems , ’ I do n't think I would have got into the trouble I did . |
| 20 | The wraith had caught me up . |
| 21 | The white frilly aprons and mob caps clearly labelled those who had elected to become servants for the afternoon ; less easily identifiable were the spiv I 'd spotted earlier — with his slicked-back , Brylcreemed hair and sneer of a moustache — and the vampish creature dressed in black taffeta adorned with diamanté who had looked me up and down disdainfully . |
| 22 | I was frightened to go back to the place that had torn me apart . ’ |
| 23 | We tried one yesterday in and Vicki had to pull me out did n't you ? |
| 24 | I went totally mad because there was an officer there that I knew — an officer that had picked me up and everything — he had arrested me before , but had also done business with me . |
| 25 | We 'd been on the bit of fast dual carriageway between Dumbarton and Alexandria , not long after Verity and Lewis had picked me up . |
| 26 | Once , when very drunk , Simon had phoned me late one night to try out a new concept , the ‘ Uzi-O-Gram ’ , which had the catchline ‘ Shoot up your girlfriend 's wedding , just for fun ! |
| 27 | A few weeks earlier he had phoned me out of the blue — I think he was checking to see how many of his cronies were still alive ! |
| 28 | ‘ What happened was Chester Thompson brought them all down , because he had met me about a year prior to that and we just corresponded . |
| 29 | Slowly , trying to ration the pain into manageable portions , I slid my hand out again , and then after a while , hardly believing it , I bent my arm and felt round my back and came to the rod there also , and faced the grim certainty that someone had shot me not with a bullet but an arrow . |
| 30 | I would remember , against my will , the fragrance of coffee and hot bread , the energy that had possessed me so short a time ago , when I had felt supple as an eel , as powerful as a salmon , as sure and quiet and graceful as an owl . |