Example sentences of "i had [verb] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way , because I had misunderstood him a bit . |
| 2 | When I had made him as comfortable as I could — a relative term , since he was in pain with each new spasm — I cut the two blankets into strips , each one two feet or so wide . |
| 3 | I had kept him waiting for over an hour , though he was n't too annoyed as he had been able to retrieve three brand new titanium ice screws and a rope , left , we presumed , after an incident the night before when we had a helicopter hovering above the face . |
| 4 | As we talked , I felt that if I had pressed him he would have loaned it to me anyway , but the Land Rover was necessary for the research programme and it would have been irresponsible to put John 's work at risk . |
| 5 | What a job I had getting him pulled out . |
| 6 | He looked taller than I had imagined him : it was said that the platforms on which he stood always had an elevated section in the middle to raise him up . |
| 7 | I had to tag him on to group deals as a makeweight — you know , like the contract I did for twelve of my players with UK Airlines . |
| 8 | He fell sideways , but I knew he was n't knocked out , he still kept hold of me , I suddenly felt I had to kill him or he would kill me . |
| 9 | I could not bear losing you any longer , I had to kill him . |
| 10 | Would n't speak to me for six months , but then his natural goodness of heart , as well perhaps as his gradual realization that I might have been right , that perhaps I had saved him from a fate worse than death , made it impossible for him to keep it up . |
| 11 | Within ten minutes he was on the move again but came towards me very fast and swam into the weeds that formed the roof over the hole where I had hooked him in the first place . |
| 12 | Maybe you only get one chance at a fish like that — a particular fish anyway — and I blew my chance through not planning what I was going to do after I had hooked him . |
| 13 | I was told that I would have to take a strange aircraft that night , I learnt that my aircraft had been damaged by flak — and Italian flak to boot — and one of my lads was in hiding as he claimed I had threatened him with dire punishment if he damaged my aircraft . |
| 14 | And yet again he let the silence come , as if the silence would answer my questions better than he could himself ; but just when I had decided he would not answer , he spoke . |
| 15 | Before he had time to realize that I was there , I had killed him . |
| 16 | And I had killed him ! |
| 17 | I had to leave him . |
| 18 | My driver was under the impression that I had instructed him to break the world land-speed record . |
| 19 | I had to explain him a bit first , because from meeting me you would n't necessarily be able to tell what my best friend was like , and Oliver can get up people 's nostrils . |
| 20 | I thought that Ben had n't had anything left when I had beaten him in the second round the previous day . |
| 21 | I had built him up to play it right to the heart of the green but he played it like a nervous three handicapper . |
| 22 | I had lost him . |
| 23 | to put his coat on , I picked him up and tried to carry him , and he just flung himself around so hard I had to put him down and he immediately flung himself on the floor again ! |
| 24 | And anyway I carried him half way along and I had to put him down |
| 25 | ‘ You had deliberately led me to believe that you 'd picked up a stranger in Bruges , and naturally I had assumed him to be a Belgian . ’ |
| 26 | I had assumed he would still want me to be his wife , and wondered why he did not ask me . |
| 27 | This was the first time I had seen him since the landings . |
| 28 | I remembered the last time I had seen him , on the half-landing on the stairs , and how we looked at one another — as if he had sensed it would be our last encounter — and had shaken hands and said goodbye . |
| 29 | One afternoon I had seen him painfully sewing on a shirt-button . |
| 30 | This was the first time I had seen him surf in the flesh , but for an entire month I had contemplated him pulling fearlessly into a vicious Pipeline tube when I should have been writing lectures . |