Example sentences of "that [pers pn] had [verb] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | My driver was under the impression that I had instructed him to break the world land-speed record . |
| 2 | I told him that I had heard he was involved in a recording project with Mo Foster . |
| 3 | Perhaps I was sent to the chippie , or café up the street to fetch cigarettes , or lemonade , or to go at full haste and deliver a note to one of his girl-friends ; or maybe he simply wanted to chastise me for something I had done , as for instance when I inadvertently got him into hot water by mentioning to Mum that I had seen him with a girl ( an infamous young woman ) after he had faithfully promised not to see her again , ever . |
| 4 | A victory over an animal is a hollow one and I had the uncomfortable feeling that I had deprived him of his chief pleasure . |
| 5 | I asked Toby to do me a favour and tell the Fleet Street ‘ dirty mac brigade ’ , who covered crime and other seedy activities , that I had given him an exclusive . |
| 6 | It was true that I had given him life but I had not given him love . |
| 7 | And then he was very er well now I 'm sorry after he 'd put all the hard work with me , he was very very annoyed and disappointed that I had let him down so . |
| 8 | He was aware that I had disliked him the day before and seemed anxious to make me change my opinion . |
| 9 | I was happy in that I felt that I had paid him back a little for the thousands of hours he had spent at West London Stadium , stopwatch in hand , urging us all on to greater things . |
| 10 | ‘ Barney 's as thrilled as I am , ’ Cara replied , revealing that she had phoned him as soon as she 'd read her mail . |
| 11 | Deliberately , he refrained from remarking that she had called him by his Christian name for the first time . |
| 12 | Unaware that she had called him by name for the first time , she halted , still some feet away , gazing at him uncertainly . |
| 13 | She was determined that there would be no reconciliation , and even though she had found that the sound of his voice reminded her vividly and immediately that she had loved him and could do so again she lay smiling with pleasure at the sheer satisfaction of unforgivingness . |
| 14 | She directed her eyes to his , secretly willing him to see the truth that had nothing to do with her partner or Maria Luisa — the truth that she had loved him then and still did . |
| 15 | He was sure , too , that she had believed him and he knew that the reason for this was that the story he had concocted was so very unlikely that no liar could possibly have put his faith in it . |
| 16 | ‘ It looked all right , did it ? ’ she asked Morris again , perhaps forgetting that she had asked him once already . |
| 17 | A restless movement on his part betrayed that she had provoked him once more , but in a different fashion . |
| 18 | She wished suddenly that she had met him under different circumstances : not as Jenny 's boy friend ; not as her fellow beneficiary in Aunt Alicia 's will . |
| 19 | When Matey had returned on that fateful afternoon , Dr Neil had told her that he had proposed to McAllister , and that she had accepted him . |
| 20 | He shot a glance at Ellen , making sure that she had understood him as well as Thessy , then he looked at his watch and shouted for Bellybutton to start up one of the workboats . |
| 21 | She probably believed that she had converted him . |
| 22 | Somehow he felt that she had beaten him at his own game of keeping things on a cool level . |
| 23 | Angry that she had defied him and yet delighted at her little-girl behaviour , he reluctantly followed , then , holding her very close , walked her back up the stairs as they counted each step in unison . |
| 24 | It was a waste of time him going but he nagged so much that she had to let him go . |
| 25 | He remembered very clearly that she had made him look a fool . |
| 26 | Jodie Cooper from Australia told me that she had been out at Haleiwa when Johnny Boy got it into his head that she had robbed him of his wave . |
| 27 | Well , she had shrugged her shoulders metaphorically at that , and oh , how she wished that she had heeded him , instead of going on what she now saw clearly had been her wilful way . |
| 28 | One lady positively adored her little Chihuahua , Poco , for 15 years , but the time came when he was persistently ill and she knew that she had to save him from further suffering . |
| 29 | What was even more satisfying was knowing that she had given him that same lesson , not once but twice , this morning when she 'd stunned him by agreeing to see his grandmother on her own time , and last night , when she 'd turned away his advances , and never mind all that pretence about his not being interested . |
| 30 | But now she realized that she had seen him before . |