Example sentences of "it had be [prep] him " in BNC.
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1 | The England that Pound mourns the loss of is , as it had been for him from the first , an integral province of western Europe , sharing a common culture with France and always reaching out , through France , to the shores of the Mediterranean . |
2 | He thought back to how it had been for him last winter . |
3 | I 'm sure it was , Patrick grinned as he walked down the corridor and climbed the half-dozen steps from the servants ' quarters up to the hall ; he had seen the look on the butler 's face , and knew how uncomfortable it had been for him . |
4 | He had seen how entirely wrong it had been for him to have assumed that Beatrice Throgmorton would look twice at him . |
5 | He paused and gave her an intense look that revealed a little of how it had been for him . |
6 | He stressed first how important it had been to him to get to know Wagner 's philosophy of music and that his own " Dionysiac Philosophy " reflected that debt . |
7 | It had been with him a long time , long before McLuhanism had arrived to make a lot of people cry into their beer at El Vino 's and go haring after every tin-pot producer in the business . |