lui avait

Qui le lui avait annoncé ?

Who had told him/her?

— Le Ruban blanc (2009)

Mon père lui avait dit ça.

My father told him that.

— Terminator 2 : Le Jugement dernier (1991)

Tom remarqua que Mary ne portait pas la bague qu'il lui avait donnée.

Tom noticed that Mary wasn't wearing the ring he had given her.

On lui avait envoyé un câble.

They had sent him a telegram.

— Voyage à Tokyo (1953)

Tom a trouvé le livre que Mary lui avait donné plutôt ennuyeux.

Tom found the book Mary gave him rather boring.

Il lui avait promis la lune, sans la décrocher.

He had promised her the moon, without getting it.

Tom ne voulait pas porter la chemise que sa mère lui avait offerte pour Noël.

Tom didn’t want to wear the shirt his mother had given him for Christmas.

Tom coupa le gâteau avec le nouveau couteau que Mary lui avait offert.

Tom cut the cake with the new knife Mary had given him.

Elle cherchait peut-être ce qui lui avait manqué toute sa vie.

Perhaps she was looking for what she had been missing all her life.

— Vacances à Venise (1955)

Il lui avait laissé de l'argent.

He had left him some money.

— Psychose (1960)