Example sentences of "him and [pron] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could do nothing to persuade them to join him and they had left it too late . |
| 2 | Fortunately , Viktor valued him and they had a long association before he ever worked with Irina . |
| 3 | Beating drums and sticks and piping , with dancers and tumblers leaping ahead of them , the grave band of three old men and four younger ones in cloaks of feathers and aprons of leaves had approached him and they had parleyed , as far as their inability to communicate in language allowed . |
| 4 | He joined her to say he would not be in the office that morning , a contact in the city had an exclusive story for him and they had arranged a meeting . |
| 5 | From the letter Brian had received from the newspaper last November , we knew that his sisters and friends were working for him and we had also heard that Jill , Nick Toksvig and other friends were active on my behalf . |
| 6 | I found it curious that when everyone had finished Robert still had a plateful of food before him and we had to wait as he ate it and Lili talked and smoked her endless cigarettes . |
| 7 | Your mother divorced him and we had many interests in common . ’ |
| 8 | He was and because he was getting on in years and er did n't get out as much as usual , my husband said we 'd get a television for him and we had a black and white television |
| 9 | I was pleased when he asked me to do the test-flying programme for him and I had no qualms in agreeing , as I knew him to be a meticulous engineer . |
| 10 | But you knew exactly where you were with him and I had the utmost respect for his judgement and management of the cutters . |
| 11 | I knew I should not miss that appointment with him and I had to succeed in the match , ’ he said . |
| 12 | You know given that life is as it is are you okay and he said yes so I went round the gardens and I came back to him and I had a friend coming for lunch and I thought this is ridiculous , I 'm going to have something to drink and I 'm going to have a meal so I made him an enormous great wad of cheese sandwiches and some apples and a piece of cake and some biscuits and a cup of tea and I went downstairs with the milk and the sugar and cup of tea and all this stuff and I went into the gardens and this poor child he looked very defensively a second time and I said well I thought you might like some breakfast and I wrapped the second lot up so if you 've nothing later on , why not put it in your pocket and eat later in the day and I did n't know whether you took milk or sugar , so I thought I 'd better just ask you and do you know I thought he was going to cry . |
| 13 | She had thought it would be a pity not to have him around any longer : Rachel and Maggie both liked him and she had not told either of them about his wife . |
| 14 | His hand had reached for her and a sigh of relief at finding her had come from him and she had turned deeply into his arms to let him hold her there . |
| 15 | He gave her so much pleasure when she was with him and she had been lonely for so long . |
| 16 | She was beside him and she had taken his arm as they waited on the pavement across the road . |
| 17 | Chief Inspector Salter was anxious to see him and she had made an appointment for him to see the Chief Superintendent later that day . |
| 18 | She continued to stand there , eyes closed tightly , long after the front door had closed behind him and she had heard his car disappear down the drive . |
| 19 | He told me that his wife had left him and she had told him that the baby she was carrying was not his . ’ |
| 20 | I mean , if she had a marriage with him and she had the relationship and now you 're a good friend to him , and you 're a friend to her , she 's probably very jealous of the fact that you 're |
| 21 | Since his arrest in England , he had married a 16 year old girl who was pregnant by him and who had now had a child . |
| 22 | The ground and the weight seemed too much for him and he had retired from contention before the penultimate fence . |
| 23 | She had given him no answer but had stared at him and he had come back quickly , saying , ‘ That was a daft thing to say ; you always manage . ’ |
| 24 | He had been able to moisten his throat at the clear streams of water which crossed the track but the sustenance of ale or wine to which his great frame was accustomed was denied him and he had taken no food since he had shared bread , cheese , and ham with Marian and Allen after the fight with the sturdy beggars . |
| 25 | Hers was not a type of female beauty which attracted him and he had always assumed that she was physically cold . |
| 26 | The dinghy had floated right down to him and he had used his last reserves of energy to clamber into it . |
| 27 | But by then his wife had left him and he had lost his factory job . |
| 28 | Niels Bohr pointed it out to him and he had to add a note in proof to deal with the question . |
| 29 | According to Ben , she had waited for him and he had failed her ; never mind that the real fault was not his , or that he had lain at death 's door , or that he had been loath to go to her as a cripple , with nothing to offer but a life of struggle . |
| 30 | He suddenly felt horribly drunk , but his wits had not altogether left him and he had a nasty inkling that his speech was not to the point . |