Example sentences of "had [vb pp] he more " in BNC.
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| 1 | He believed if only his parents had given him more confidence and the right backing , he would have made a very good male model . |
| 2 | The Colonel , the Honourable , the Member of Parliament had given him more access to what nearly approached aristocratic companionship than he had ever enjoyed . |
| 3 | Still , Dottie Banks had given him more than most of the others . |
| 4 | Earlier he had heard that a young clerk from the Post Office had shot himself while lying in bed … he had left a young widow , to whom he had been married in Calcutta during the previous cold season ; this act of despair had moved him more than any other of the many deaths he had witnessed since the beginning of the siege ; it was perhaps the fact that the young man had been lying in bed when he had shot himself that the Collector found so sad . |
| 5 | She wondered how he 'd be if his father had not driven off or if his mother had shown him more affection . |
| 6 | He had heard about Louise 's move and the thought of losing Constance had affected him more than he had imagined possible . |
| 7 | The sight of Dalziel and Pascoe had disconcerted him more than he had cared to show . |
| 8 | First he 'd been crazy enough to subdue her with a kiss which , though it had begun in anger , had aroused a need for her so hot and instant that it had stunned him more than her slap , and now this . |
| 9 | He 'd thought of her constantly , hoping she still worked for the Bradford family , and the invitation to Christmas dinner with them had caused him more elation than Maud , his wife , though he had n't dared show it . |