Example sentences of "[noun] he 'd [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He steered the ten-year-old Daimler under the Dersingham arch and drove straight into the cathedral close at the same speed he 'd used to cover the miles from Oldfield . |
| 2 | Roy went to his specialist thinking he 'd cracked it . |
| 3 | Every three months or so I 'd clear it of all the wonder remedies he 'd accumulated , but within a week he 'd have discovered some other miracle medicine . |
| 4 | He felt like nursery food after the pummelling he 'd had during the meeting and that was the nearest thing to it on the menu . |
| 5 | The animals he 'd seen had always been well looked after . |
| 6 | When they said he could n't have a parrot he 'd said ‘ Well , mice , then , white ones , ’ but his Dad had said he could n't have them either . |
| 7 | However , seeing as I was in Rosslare that day , it amused me to keep an eye out for the car he 'd described . |
| 8 | He did n't explain why it was going to be helpful and the pilot told him the car he 'd specified was waiting for them . |
| 9 | And herself , mistrustful of him , angered by his wrong assumptions about her , pretending to go along with the programme he 'd arranged ! |
| 10 | In the sand you see the iron although it broke it more but this plough he 'd kept the thing fairly together . |
| 11 | She walked round the room , looking at the fragments he 'd preserved from their life together . |
| 12 | So when I got there this morning he was still in his pyjamas he 'd got on quite well , all he wanted me to do was wash his face . |
| 13 | The answer was even more unsettling — that this was the department he 'd worked in . |
| 14 | Kalchu climbed on to the roof of the house , and with the flame he 'd brought from the shrine fire set light to the two piles of jharo . |
| 15 | At Cromcruach he 'd met a mechanic named Mike , who seemed in a terrible state . |
| 16 | Later in the evening , Tammuz and his computer decided to investigate an old network tape he 'd uncovered in Roirbak 's huge stockpile of such material . |
| 17 | Throw a shovelful of tarmac into the canal and they went to pieces , it had n't been his fault he 'd tripped over the cat . |
| 18 | They 'd danced to Michael 's band and her glossy pink trousers flashed and moved in the dimmed lights , and he had felt elated and mildly drunk , and had lost most of the inhibitions he 'd had about dancing , until it became clear to his confused brain that the drummer , who had soft dark hair and was probably a potential Celtic supporter , was getting on so well with Amanda that perhaps they should move on elsewhere , and he swayed out of the room , pushing her in front of him , and bumped into someone at the door , and had realised it was the man in the raincoat , only he was in a dark suit and a tie with geometric designs . |
| 19 | And then recited the bits of gossip he 'd picked up . |
| 20 | Whatever the actual reasons for this , in his own mind he 'd singled out the fact that she must have got married . |
| 21 | The best years of his mind he 'd sacrificed to this godforsaken place and precious little did he have to show for it . |
| 22 | On the table in the milk bottle was the daffodil he 'd picked . |
| 23 | ANGLER Arthur Davis cast his line off Dover pier in Kent — and hooked the wig he 'd lost in the sea a week earlier . |
| 24 | He loved sex too much to condemn any expression of lust , and though he 'd discouraged the homosexual courtships he 'd attracted , it was out of indifference not revulsion . |
| 25 | Some let-out he 'd got in the contract . |
| 26 | From the glimpses he 'd caught he believed she 'd had slight curves — he would n't have fancied her otherwise . |
| 27 | The edgy , intense performances he 'd racked up ( as the raging skinhead in Alan Clarke 's Made In Britain , as a retarded teen in Mike Leigh 's Meantime , as a gangster hooligan in ( The Hit ) , the Most Promising Newcomer Award the Evening Standard gave him — none of it really helped . |
| 28 | How prophetic had been those words he 'd written . |
| 29 | He 'd never told Mum about the words he 'd had with the relief officers , which was a blessing really because she would never have shut up about it . |
| 30 | I 've proved that , yes — ’ in the words he 'd used that very morning ‘ — even Bluebeard has to take time off . |