Example sentences of "[vb past] he 'd [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Police saw him go into a flat in West London but by the time they entered he 'd gone . |
| 2 | My father was a Gemini , and I knew your mother was a Sagittarian as soon as I found he 'd given her half the clip . |
| 3 | Chatted with him and found he 'd missed breakfast . |
| 4 | ' … so that the end of the week he found he 'd lost two stone . |
| 5 | ‘ She found he 'd drawn out quite a lot of money on Friday , from two building society accounts they 've got . |
| 6 | I expect he found he 'd sold his working-class birthright for a mess of Bloomsbury pottage . |
| 7 | ‘ Steve ! ’ she cried in amazement as he let himself into the apartment , grinning all over his silly face as if he 'd just popped out for a paper that morning and found he 'd won the state lottery . |
| 8 | The inquest into his death found he 'd taken nine times the usual dose of LSD … but recorded an open verdict . |
| 9 | As he smiled Lisa sensed he believed he 'd won her over . |
| 10 | The local doc — the guy who 'd helped save Andy after he almost died under the ice all those years earlier — was on holiday at the time and there was a locum , a deputising doctor in charge of the practice , except from what the locals muttered later it seemed he 'd treated his stay in Strathspeld as a holiday , too , and spent more time on river banks with a rod in his hands than at bedsides toting a stethoscope . |
| 11 | Patterson was one of the last out , but it seemed he 'd got the message about his visitor as he hurried towards his office without a sideways glance . |
| 12 | Now , abruptly , she could see that he imagined he 'd chalked up yet another small victory . |
| 13 | During the first war he 'd he 'd lost a ship and so finally he decided to buy a ship and he bought two little schooners in f in Porthmadog . |
| 14 | I mean , I can remember seeing an interview with er , John Geilgud and he 'd he 'd done Hamlet many years ago and er but he said he 'd it was in a totally different way you know , different |
| 15 | He 'd he 'd done it all , he was happy enough then . |
| 16 | And then they sent me a questionnaire saying they understood that he 'd he 'd given my address , and was he res , was he still resident ? |
| 17 | I 've actually seen erm er been in a workshop as a participant where a chap who was excellent at this had what he did was while while the participants were doing some sort of an exercise he was actually making these tiny notes up in the top corner for himself so that when he when he came to the next sort of section that he wanted he 'd he 'd got he 'd got the odd notes just up there in the corner . |
| 18 | and he said he 'd he 'd got ! |
| 19 | I 'd feel differently if she 'd made my father really happy , but , believe me , he soon learnt he 'd made a mistake in marrying Bertha . ’ |
| 20 | Juliet noticed he 'd said ‘ we ’ . |
| 21 | KATE was left sitting alone once more as Ace stormed off , but she hardly noticed he 'd gone because all she could think about was how the fuel blend had let them down . |
| 22 | But he walked very purposefully erm straight up there and then I noticed he 'd got a hook |
| 23 | ‘ She were doing his room one evening and she noticed he 'd left his cupboard open . |
| 24 | She noticed he 'd showered and changed , as he came out to meet her , grabbing his bags from her limp grasp . |
| 25 | Lucy noticed he 'd quickened his steps , and she found herself almost running to keep up with him . |
| 26 | and erm in came he 'd had a a little tiny switch out of his black and white telly |
| 27 | I assumed he 'd made a mistake , but suppose he had n't ? |
| 28 | I assumed he 'd found us somewhere else to live while it was being rebuilt . |
| 29 | The Sergeant 's deepening frown showed he 'd reached his limit of forbearance . |
| 30 | At Bristol Crown Court Kelly claimed he 'd forgotten the knife was still in his hand and had only meant to punch . |