Example sentences of "that [pron] loved him " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could have held him tight and told him I was proud of him and that I loved him just for being there , but he would have struggled free . |
| 2 | I told you that I loved him , that 's God 's truth , I love him and I tell you they might have made such a place just for him . ’ |
| 3 | They were to tell him that I loved him … |
| 4 | I knew then that I loved him and I would do anything for him , no matter what . |
| 5 | Yes , I could see by the way she grumbled about Wilson that she loved him and , although he was over eighty at the time , still saw him in a romantic light . |
| 6 | Elisabeth returned Daniel 's caresses and murmured that she loved him . |
| 7 | An undemonstrative woman , the mother was quite incapable of putting her arms around her son and telling him that she was proud of him or that she loved him . |
| 8 | Was it that she loved him ? |
| 9 | Yet he was her father , and she was aware , in this instant , that she loved him more than she had ever loved anyone on earth except herself ; more than husband , far more than children . |
| 10 | There was always something comforting about Ben : she felt that she loved him as much as she did Mrs Aggie . |
| 11 | He blushed to think of how shamelessly he 'd paraded himself when he 'd had Judith on his arm ; how he 'd joked that she loved him for his cleanliness , and for his taste in bidets . |
| 12 | Even if Madeleine were able to convince Aubrey that she loved him and was willing to wait for him , had he the moral right to ask her to do so ? |
| 13 | She wondered how she could ever have thought that she loved him , and why she had stayed with him for so long after she 'd realised that if she ever had , she did not love him now . |
| 14 | And even crazier to have told him that she loved him . |
| 15 | And again she recognised what she 'd known then instantly : that she loved him and that he would make a perfect father for her daughter . |
| 16 | And could it only be two days since she had realised fully that she loved him ? |
| 17 | Oh , the benison of it , she thought , for she seemed to need comfort now , not only because she was tired after the journey and far away from John , but because she had admitted to herself that she loved him , had let her love sweep over her like a kind of illness , ‘ giving in ’ to flu , conscious only of the present moment . |
| 18 | She wanted to tell him that she loved him , but they were words she had never spoken to anyone . |
| 19 | Imagine his face if she told him the truth : that , far from not liking him , she was labouring under this absurd fantasy that she loved him — for how else could she explain the turmoil that heaved inside her mind and body ? |
| 20 | Once more they could reveal themselves to each other — not just physically , because with every gesture she made she knew she would reveal the one thing he must never know — the fact that she loved him . |
| 21 | Oh , this could not be happening — that she loved him so , and yet could not bear him to caress her ! |
| 22 | Still she could not bring herself to touch him , until , turning his head , she saw the scar , and without thinking leaned forward to kiss that , a butterfly kiss like his , to show him that she loved him — and his scar . |
| 23 | Never must she put herself in a position where she might be tempted to betray the fact that she loved him . |
| 24 | ‘ He was at her , trying to make her say that she loved him better than she did me . |
| 25 | There was no laughter now , no mockery , and she went still , wondering how to answer the question , how to explain that the reason was that she loved him . |
| 26 | She might despise him for the methods he used in business , but the fact remained that she loved him , and if there was anything she could do to protect him she would do it . |
| 27 | This was the first time she had seen Naylor since her discovery that she loved him . |
| 28 | It was only that now , having finally admitted that she loved him , that she 'd loved him almost from the moment they 'd met , she was able to admit that it was those very same qualities that made him the man he was . |
| 29 | She knew now that she loved him , yet , at times , she seemed to hate him . |
| 30 | ‘ I knew that you loved him . |