Example sentences of "had [verb] her at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had hated her at sight . |
| 2 | All the way up on the ferry from Vienna , Earth , Jezrael kept remembering how he had treated her at the briefing . |
| 3 | This was style , as they had taught her at school . |
| 4 | She chuckled at her romanticism : even most of the historians who had taught her at Cambridge sported tattered leather jackets and greasy jeans . |
| 5 | He reminded her of a mathematics mistress who had taught her at school . |
| 6 | Her mother had telephoned her at the nurses ' home where she had been living and had asked her if she could come home . |
| 7 | A kindly lorry driver on his way to North Wales , chatting of his own daughter and his home , had dropped her at the roundabout at the top of the Banbury Road at about lunch-time . |
| 8 | It had surrounded her at her progressive private school , it surrounded her still at her fashionable newish university , but she herself lacked economic grasp and was uncomfortably aware of having lost , of late , a few arguments with outsiders , of having been thrown back on arguments about personalities . |
| 9 | If the words had chilled her at first hearing it was more because of the cold light they cast on the woman 's most intimate life than for any reference to her own innocence . |
| 10 | He had phoned her at Milton Buildings , saying that he had a routine enquiry to make about the Datsun , would have asked for Mr Marius Steen but , owing to the recent regrettable happening , wondered if she could help . |
| 11 | Luke had met her at Euston . |
| 12 | I had met her at the England-USA match in Birmingham and she had offered to help me with my career . |
| 13 | The darkness that had possessed her at once scattered into light , and the joy that replaced it was too powerful to contain . |
| 14 | She knew Gwen Evans only slightly ; she had seen her at the funeral , and previous to that a couple of times , but the memory stuck . |
| 15 | Most of them had seen her at meetings or heard of her in connection with the ICO . |
| 16 | He had recognised her at once when he had seen her at the funeral , and even then her looks , though pale and wan , had surprised him with their purity . |
| 17 | It had soon passed , but it had alarmed her at the time . |
| 18 | She projected a kind of agelessness , which had made her at the same time an object of attention from both the Young Women 's Fitness Class and the Over-50s Club . |
| 19 | A close school friend , Paula Bolwell , 19 , said Sarah had been unhappy when she had visited her at college . |
| 20 | Somehow — it did not seem diplomatic to enquire too deeply just how — he had missed her at the arranged spot . |
| 21 | Sybille was an exception , but Laura liked to believe that she had persuaded her at least to cut down . |
| 22 | She alleged that the doctor had told her at a seminar that she desired Lozano . |
| 23 | She would find one , they had told her at the training depot , at most main-line stations . |
| 24 | They were constructing a series of weirs upstream , so they had told her at ‘ The Salmon 's Return ’ , which would eventually control this annual predator , but for this year , at least , it surged down irresistibly as ever , biting acres out of its banks as it cornered , like a ferocious animal frustrated . |
| 25 | ‘ Forgive me , ’ Alexandra said , feeling a recurring surge of the courage that had invaded her at Langley Dene , ‘ but I think — with respect , I think that everyone is making too much of my meeting Mr Swinton . |
| 26 | He had recognised her at once when he had seen her at the funeral , and even then her looks , though pale and wan , had surprised him with their purity . |
| 27 | That was how he had greeted her at Euston on her return from Ireland after the New Year . |
| 28 | She had no intention of dancing another record with him ; Callum 's hands were far too slippery — in fact she was beginning to regret having anything to do with him at all ; the pleasant , confident smile that had greeted her at the beginning of the evening had now turned into a quite definite leer . |
| 29 | It had to be a child , Coffin thought , and had n't Mrs Foster been Gilly Slee when he had known her at Hook Road School ? |
| 30 | The other occupants of the boat were a Marine sergeant and one of the soldiers who had found her at the village . |