Example sentences of "he 'd [vb pp] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd seen a bit of that kind of thing going on in the last hospital he was in . |
| 2 | He 'd seen a film about it and he could remember it very well . |
| 3 | You 'd have thought he 'd seen a ghost ! — He hopped it , then . |
| 4 | He 'd seen a kid walking excitedly away from Coffin Corner with a fragment of the Bradshaw cradled in his arms . |
| 5 | ‘ He told me he 'd seen a UFO himself in 1967 … ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Streuer was behind us and he thought he 'd seen a gap , but Steve cut across . |
| 7 | Cardiff fumbled to where he 'd seen a light switch , began to reach for it … and then stopped . |
| 8 | Another neighbour told the inquest he 'd seen a car with two occupants drive away from the farm just before the barn caught fire . |
| 9 | ‘ I think it would have been brilliant if they 'd given him more of a chance and if he 'd given a bit more . |
| 10 | She got an answering machine and was pretty certain that she recognized his voice from the times he 'd given a television reporter a few words at the scene of crime . |
| 11 | The first time , he 'd been virtually on their tail as he 'd rounded a bend . |
| 12 | Maybe he 'd joined a ship , he 'd done his national service in the navy . |
| 13 | Lumberjack had started barking and then , just as abruptly , stopped again , and in the silence he 'd heard a tree come down . |
| 14 | He thought he 'd heard a sound , there towards the end of the parapet at the top of the steps . |
| 15 | After he 'd played a couple of tunes , the organ grinder took off his old frayed cap and handed it round the crowd that had gathered . |
| 16 | The icebox was packed with beer and he 'd prepared a lobster salad that he 'd left on ice . |
| 17 | Mrs Smith 's family say he 'd written a letter threatening her and he should have been detained . |
| 18 | He 'd written a book . ‘ |
| 19 | or and apparently he 'd lost a strip . |
| 20 | He 'd lost a cousin and some good friends in these reprisals . |
| 21 | He 'd lost a lot of relatives in the war . ’ |
| 22 | He 'd lost a lot more , Ruth noted . |
| 23 | He 'd lost a penknife on the beach , Kate said . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | What 's more , I knew people like a one-armed inside half — he 'd lost an arm in the First World War — who played with murderous brilliance for Caernarvon for years when I was a boy . |
| 26 | I wondered right away if he 'd registered a complaint against you , Charity . |
| 27 | He 'd done a couple of circuits before they stopped . |
| 28 | He 'd done a bunk . |
| 29 | I do n't know if we 'd have worried about that if we 'd thought he 'd done a bunk . |
| 30 | But he came more than he might have and he 'd done a bit with the bells in his heyday . |