Example sentences of "[prep] him had be " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Ari and Nathan went through the shop , Roirbak remembered with mixed feelings that Zambia and Tammuz might still be in there , and then wondered if some evil part of him had been aware of that all along . |
| 2 | It was obvious that the sight of him had been a shock to Tamar 's brother , but Davis was convinced that he had never encountered George before . |
| 3 | In fact , she knew it , for a picture of him had been smuggled to her . |
| 4 | This view of him had been built up gradually , partly as a result of that interview with Rodriguez back in Mexico City , and partly from the bits and pieces of information Ward had let fall . |
| 5 | She was amazed to realise now just how detailed her dream of him had been and annoyed that he could make her feel so uncomfortable by his veiled allusion to last night . |
| 6 | So powerful had these embattled minorities become , that decent chaps like him had been forced upon the defensive . |
| 7 | ( Although Billy had undoubtedly been guilty as charged , the evidence against him had been largely manufactured , and none of his family had ever recovered from the injustice of this . ) |
| 8 | He showed her a letter from the CPS saying proceedings against him had been discontinued because of lack of evidence . |
| 9 | He said the case against him had been adjourned after he said he believed he owed less than £12 . |
| 10 | And I think behind him had been one of the older woodchucks and João the electrician , except they 'd made themselves scarce commodities . |
| 11 | My father had gone off up to bed and she suddenly began to tell me what her life with him had been , the bribery and the humiliation and so on . |
| 12 | He wanted to blurt out that she looked beautiful in blue , that he 'd like to kill the man who 'd been in her flat the previous evening , that he hoped her date with him had been a miserable failure , that he had hardly slept a wink all night , beside himself with jealousy . |
| 13 | Spending even this short amount of time with him had been a big mistake . |
| 14 | The journey with him had been tense , the atmosphere between them like standing on the edge of a volcano , waiting to be flung into the fire when it exploded . |
| 15 | And if the only deep emotion she had ever seen in him had been on the day of Ben Braithwaite 's engagement to Magda Tannenbaum , then she felt no right and no reason to be astonished at that . |
| 16 | Her trust in him had been absolute . |
| 17 | The middle-aged married couple who had been caretakers before him had been dismissed on the spot for gross drunkenness . |
| 18 | Despite protests from all sides he did n't halt his labours until the body before him had been opened from navel to throat , and Dowd 's thrashings had ceased . |
| 19 | She began to wonder if all those other stories about him had been not a little exaggerated . |
| 20 | With a rush of emotion she could n't put a name to Luce realised that her first instinctive feeling about him had been absolutely right . |
| 21 | He had left her and gone to live with an upper-class woman , had soared to the opposite end of the scale from Josie , whose attraction for him had been that of a splenetic victim from the lower depths of the goyim : but Josie had refused a divorce and the ordeal had dragged on . |
| 22 | Patrick had been company , tending him had been a solace , hoping for him had been a hope . |
| 23 | Since Christmas day her feelings for him had been in such a chaotic state she did n't know whether she loved or hated him . |
| 24 | Her feelings for him had been a pallid thing beside what she now felt for Fen . |
| 25 | She had always suspected that he 'd had little time for any brain power that she might possess — just as she had always known that her chief value for him had been the almost instantaneous sexual desire they had felt for each other . |
| 26 | In doing so , he had to jettison most of what those close to him had been telling him for the past 16 months . |
| 27 | Was it because everything that had been precious to him had been torn from him that he had to find someone to blame for his losses , someone to take advantage of , someone from whom he could derive consolation ? |
| 28 | Her last words to him had been a curse yet she had felt him at her side on the day she had marched to York with Richard Oastler . |
| 29 | The desire to make love to him had been irresistible , but that temporary blindness had gone , and what she saw made her shudder . |
| 30 | Her response to him had been totally instinctive , nothing to do with anything she had read or seen . |