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I suddenly saw that all the time it was not I who had been seeking God, but God who had been seeking... BEDE GRIFFITHS Peter had been feeling lately that perhaps he and Jenny had come to the end of their story,
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They were talking more distantly than if they were strangers who had just met, for if they had been ... W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM And his brightness was as the light; he had horns coming out of his hand: and there was the hiding o...
BIBLE It's our fault. We should have given him better parts.
, ON HEARING THAT RONALD REAGAN HAD BEEN ELECTED GOVERNOR OF CALIFORNIA He felt light, lighter than ever in all his years. He had severed all relationships. It occurred to ...
JOSEPH ROTH He had been hit by Betsy when it came through, and had rebuilt. Now he had a solid house, one of the...
DON HALVORSEN
He had the confidence of a man who had never been wounded. VICTOR HUGO I was clinging to all that had been and, in an ideal world, all that we had hoped for. He, he wanted...
FREYA NORTH Speculation was now news. News had been confused with fact. Fact had been replaced by expert opinion...
JOHN M. KELLER
He knew now, and the knowledge was hard, that his task had never been to undo what he had done, but ... URSULA K. LE GUIN
Harry had been picturing his parents’ deaths over and over again for three years now, ever since h... J.K. ROWLING
No one could ever be for me what [he] had been because he had known me when, and that had kept me aw... ELIZABETH BERG
He had suffered, and he had learnt to think, two advantages that he had never known before… JANE AUSTEN
He really had been through death, but he had returned because he could not bear the solitude. GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ
He had no longer any need for home, for he carried his Gormenghast within him. All that he sought wa... MERVYN PEAKE It came to him that he had turned away from the buffalo not because of a womanish nausea at blood an...
JOHN WILLIAMS
He rolled onto his back and tried to remember the dream he had been having. It had been a good one. ... J.K. ROWLING
He had delusions of adequacy. WALTER KERR
The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because ... BILLY GRAHAM
He had the feeling that everything he saw was a broken-off piece of some giant blank thing that he h... FLANNERY O'CONNOR
And not only of even mainly because of the protection it had given him - it was thanks to his own st... MICHAEL ENDE The family said he had a kidney and liver transplant in 2004 and he had been to a doctor Monday. He ...
JASON MARKLE
She had said he had been driven away from her by a dream... JOSEPH CONRAD Other people had had access to the vehicle before the accident. Doctors who treated Jones said they ...
DANA KEETON
She loved him because he had brought her back to life. She had been like a caterpillar in a cocoon, ... KEN FOLLETT Keith had it a little better than most kids here because he had two parents in the same household wh...
JEFF HILL
Tommy had completely forgotten that he was horny. He had always been horny, and had accepted that he... CHRISTOPHER MOORE
His form had yet not lost / All her original brightness, nor appeared / Less than archangel ruined, ... JOHN MILTON This was a young man who had a very rough time growing up, but he never showed that, never complaine...
EDWARD ROMERO
Who did leave His Father's throne,
To assume thy flesh and bone?
Had He life, or had He none?
... GEORGE HERBERT
This was the way he had to go; he had no choice. He had never had any choice. He was only a dreamer. URSULA K. LE GUIN He said that the man that they had been questioning admitted what he had done and he took my daughte...
ANGELA BRYANT
And for all these people alike, the key to healing turned out to be the same. Each had a hurt he had... CORRIE TEN BOOM
I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. ... MARY HARRIS JONES
He felt as if he had been shipwrecked on the Titanic, but in the nick of time had been rescued. By t... TERRY PRATCHETT There was a demon named 'Vala' whom Indra had killed. Indra was able to kill this dreaded demon only...
SAM VEDA
The country he had left thirty years ago had been a realistic place. There were political realities ... DAVE EGGERS I think Shannon should look at my granny and tell her that he's sorry, because he kept calling and a...
LISA PARKER
She had been born for this man, and she had spent so many years trying to accept the fact that he ha... JULIA QUINN
He was about to go home, about to return to the place where he had had a family. It was in Godric’... J.K. ROWLING He had even read Pride and Prejudice--although he had thought that many of the heroine's problems wo...
LYNN VIEHL Ferranti's thoughts had been his. As before he had understood his remorse so now he understood the m...
ELIZABETH GOUDGE
He remembered Tessa weeping in his arms in Paris, and thinking that he had never known the loss she ... CASSANDRA CLARE
He [Cato] used to say that in all his life he never repented but
of three things. The first was th... PLUTARCH
Ever since he had been a kid, he had wished and waited, and there had been no change except for the ... JAMES T. FARRELL
I had a group of Hispanic Americans come into my office in 1976 who worked in a Denver packing plant... RICHARD LAMM He had to have screamed. People had to have heard that.
TINA BORICH
And then their voices stopped and their souls stood still and they ceased being who they had been. B... MELINA MARCHETTA
His form had yet not lost
All his original brightness, not appear'd
Less than arch-angel ruine... JOHN MILTON I think Marty was really surprised. He had been complaining all day that nobody had called about his...
SHIRLEY JONES
The lights were off so that his heads could avoid looking at each other because neither of them was ... DOUGLAS ADAMS Lovely phrases had lit candles in her mind, one after the other, till she felt intoxicated with the ...
ELIZABETH GOUDGE We had eight on the side that he had withdrawn from his life in the Mafia. Four felt he was still in...
GREG ROSENBLUM
Like all real heroes, Charley had a fatal flaw. He refused to believe that he had gonorrhea, whereas... KURT VONNEGUT There had been a computer he had also built himself on the farthest corner of the room, but he had s...
NATALIE VALDES They joined because they wanted to serve their country, and deployment meets their expectations of s...
JAMES HOSEK They joined because they wanted to serve their country, and deployment meets their expectations of s...
JAMES HOSEK
When Luke had descended into the River Styx, he would've had to focus on something important that wo... RICK RIORDAN He had felt that some sort of justice had prevailed.
ALAN RICHARDSON Man's nature, he postulated, was to be a "free conscious producer," but so far he had not been able ...
ROBERT C. TUCKER
But she had known, better than anyone else, what demons he had faced, had known how hard he had foug... DONNA WOOLFOLK CROSS
The available worlds looked pretty grim. They had little to offer him because he had little to offer... DOUGLAS ADAMS
I recognized him then; that is, I finally comprehended what I had known but had never been able to f... ALEKSANDAR HEMON [That, says Larry Mullen, is what led his brother, Michael, to kill two men he didn't know, both reg...
LARRY MULLEN
It had been her mercy, her refusal to kill a known enemy, that had made me realize the Order was wro... JULIE KAGAWA He had to keep thinking of them because if he forgot them and did not think of them they might forge...
GARY PAULSEN If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang.
CHARLEY REESE The humiliation that Jane had felt turned to something else--grief perhaps, or regret. Regret that s...
BEVERLY CLEARY I had all the provocation in the world to kill... I had no malice or spleen against him... It was no...
WILLIAM KIDD Before he had come to the town he had known about nothing but death: here he had learnt to live, to ...
ANNE HOLM They determined that he had had his stroke while he was napping.
AMY DAVIS started to tell his friends that he had not been the inventor of the ideas about infinity that he ha...
GEORG CANTOR
Evening had turned the sky a deep persimmon. The remaining sunlight enriched the colors of the ubiqu... G.S. JENNSEN
There had been a time in Godfrey's life when, had she stood before him in all her splendor, he would... GEORGE MACDONALD
He was a tubby little chap who looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and had forgotten to... P. G. [SIR PELHAM GRENVILLE] WODEHOUSE
But he had been in love once, that he knew. Once and only once, and a long time ago. And it had chan... NICHOLAS SPARKS
She left feeling dirty, and on the bus ride home she knew that what her uncles told her had come tru... DAVID BERGEN I hope that he's been able to address whatever issues he had with whomever he had. I am surprised th...
LARRY RODRIGUEZ And they, when they had heard that he was alive, and had been seen of her, believed not.
BIBLE We found a number of hacking software that had been loaded onto the computer. He had used that to ga...
GEORGE WORTHINGTON
After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity. GEORGE ADE During the years of struggling to make partner, he had sometimes entertained the comical notion that...
REECE HIRSCH He fully confessed to all these thefts and said it was because he had a crack cocaine habit. In fact...
CRYSTAL CANDY
He was inspired, and yet he wants books!He had been preaching for thirty years, and yet he wan...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON And it came to pass, after he had eaten bread, and after he had drunk, that he saddled for him the a...
BIBLE
Friend of mine, a smart journalist, had his iPad stolen. He couldn't help that - the thief broke... BARTON GELLMAN Because Jerone thought that we were going to go in with masks. And then Troy was like, nope, leave n...
BRANDON GRAHAM There was a war crimes trial because an American prisoner had been shot trying to escape. He had obv...
CHARLES GUGGENHEIM She was a creature of the deep, and there she must return, or perish. Toby understood that, but it h...
JULIET MARILLIER He had to go behind bars; he had a felony.
TERRY SMITH
Although he had always been a gentleman till then, he had 'caught his century', a disease impossible... RACHILDE And, like the prodigal son, he had returned broken in body and also in mind to the house where he ha...
CATHERINE COOKSON He just had that something, that intangible. You don't know who has it, but he had it. To do whateve...
BOB MCDONALD I had a home; I had a big, successful business, a little piece of the land of Israel n all that was ...
ANITA TUCKER
Elf Envy...they all had it. ORLANDO BLOOM
She had no need to ask why he had come. She knew as certainly as if he had told her that he was here... LEO TOLSTOY
