Example sentences of "had [vb pp] me " in BNC.

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1 I put up with all their talk , and I did what I had to do according to the state in which the Lord had placed me .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 Anyway , I 'd been very busy the day before and Doreen had irritated me for other reasons .
5 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 .
6 Fortunately for Conran , he had attended the sort of public school ‘ which had taught me a lot of practical skills ’ .
7 Leslie had taught me how to live , and the war how to endure .
8 A year actually on the job had taught me that it was n't quite so simple !
9 I would recite some of the lines Grandad had taught me and sometimes sing songs like ‘ Who Will Buy My Pretty Flowers ’ .
10 My father had taught me to do a proper somersault .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 He had taught me ( at a tender age ) how , to a partner who can accept his peculiar sexual tastes and low libido uncritically , a man may communicate his other most intimate secrets exhaustively. Émile was , in many ways , more frank with me than Jean-Claude .
15 But my father had taught me how to make them on my arm , fox-bites .
16 My mother had taught me that , just as she had taught me to change my underclothes daily and not blow my nose in public .
17 My mother had taught me that , just as she had taught me to change my underclothes daily and not blow my nose in public .
18 I am older because I have learnt , I am younger because a lot of me consisted of things older people had taught me .
19 ( At that time nobody had taught me how to preserve them to keep as specimens .
20 My father , a policeman , had taught me how to do this years before .
21 By this time , however , my gallery experience had taught me that you need money to start up properly , much more money than I had originally thought .
22 I tried to recall all the lessons Tata had taught me when I was a child .
23 It was the Officer who had turfed me out of the church yesterday when I was playing the bagpipes .
24 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 .
25 As I have described , she had consulted me many years back over a libel matter which I had discouraged her — unsuccessfully — from pursuing , with calamitous financial results ; but I was able to give her a little assistance in another matter which to some small extent repaired the damage arising from the first disaster .
26 Sapt had hidden me in a room in the old castle , and he and Fritz brought her to me there .
27 Certainly his terse telephone technique had annoyed me last night , but not enough to make me want to spit at the sight of him .
28 He was quite near , jostling among the spectators , and I had my first close look at the wild-eyed little goblin who had plagued me .
29 It would have run the other way if it had heard me coming .
30 But Flora had heard me .
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