Example sentences of "[subord] he 'd seen " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd walked round the engine sheds , he said , where he 'd looked long and lovingly at the old locomotives , and where he 'd seen schoolboys and middle-aged men carefully recording numbers and wheel-arrangements in their note-books . |
| 2 | Although she had never said so , his instinct had told him immediately he 'd seen her with Harry that she was in love with the young man — a devastatingly handsome young man — whose manner towards Alice had been affectionate but certainly not lover-like . |
| 3 | She considered taking off all her clothes and diving into the pool , but rejected the option instantly ; he 'd never want to fuck her once he 'd seen her naked in full sunlight . |
| 4 | After seeing him , because he thought that once he 'd seen the consultant it would then take some time to get the treatment started , but they must have got themselves over that . |
| 5 | He would not leave until he 'd seen her . |
| 6 | He tried very hard not to cough like he 'd seen people cough in westerns when they tried whisky for the first time , and got away with just clearing his throat rather loudly ( he looked round at the curtains , afraid somebody might have heard ) . |
| 7 | ‘ Seems reasonable , ’ said Dod , like he 'd seen Richard Widmark say it in a film once , really chill . |
| 8 | They 'd most likely be asking him if he 'd seen him . |
| 9 | No , not some fanatical carp angler frightened of someone looking in his bait box , but carp that mouthed a bait and spat it out before the angler could strike — if he 'd seen the bite , that is . |
| 10 | He had a microphone in his hand and his eyes were set way back in his head , as if he 'd seen the Lord once too often . |
| 11 | Then I saw a light aircraft orbiting overhead and started waving to it , but he disappeared and I did n't know if he 'd seen me . |
| 12 | All the time he 's writing as if he 'd seen her undressing , but there 's something just a bit more theatrical about the last two . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Then I ran into Matthew and I asked him if he 'd seen his uncle . |
| 14 | It is n't as if he 'd seen all that much of it , really . " |
| 15 | He asked the old man if he knew Miss Lavant , if he 'd seen her at the fete , in clothes with buttercups on them . |
| 16 | As I got out I caught the enigmatic Mr Goodson sneaking in through the front door , but if he 'd seen me pull up , he did n't wait to say Hello . |
| 17 | ‘ Yes , ’ she agreed thoughtfully , ‘ and Ryan kissed me because he 'd seen you . ’ |
| 18 | And this astonished him , because he 'd seen this kind of thing at home . |
| 19 | It had been eleven months since he 'd seen or spoken to Chester , but he was greeted as effusively as ever , and ushered in . |
| 20 | Not since he 'd seen him off from Nanking back in November ‘ 03 . |
| 21 | Peter thought Susie was having an affair , ever since he 'd seen her leave work with a colleague . |
| 22 | Moore 's start in athletics came relatively late when he was 14 : ‘ One of the PE teachers at school had a son at Birchfield and , after he 'd seen me jumping well at school , he said , ‘ Why do n't you come down ? ’ |
| 23 | They wanted to surprise him by jumping out and saying ‘ Happy birthday ! ’ after he 'd seen the presents . |
| 24 | I ducked so fast I was n't sure whether he 'd seen me or not , but it gave me a prickly feeling just to imagine it , so I scuttled for the door and legged it up the spiral stairway three steps at a time , just in case . |
| 25 | Because , when he 'd seen Olivier , just after 1945 , had n't he said there was a man after his own heart ? |
| 26 | Nocenzi had been conscious when he 'd seen him . |
| 27 | Cormack had been swinging on the bar stool , fingering his wallet because Amanda 's appetite for food and drink had made his credit cards nervous , when he 'd seen the man in the raincoat in reception and the beer had spilled over his hand and left wet stains on the varnish for the boy to polish away . |
| 28 | With her thoughts going dreamily round and round , it was about seven-thirty that , as she was again thinking of how he had that morning cradled her so gently when he 'd seen her hurt , Leith suddenly became horror-struck . |
| 29 | But , as she all at once realised that he thought , actually thought , that she had been pumping his secretary about him , so a tide of pink warmed her cheeks , and , ‘ Nothing ! ’ she exclaimed hotly , more startlement hitting her as it dawned on her that this then was the reason for his fury when he 'd seen them together . |
| 30 | The slightly fatherly attendant said he was sure she was safely asleep , as he 'd seen her returning from the washroom at the end of the car and climbing up to her bunk . |