Example sentences of "[noun sg] 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | However , seeing as I was in Rosslare that day , it amused me to keep an eye out for the car he 'd described . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | And herself , mistrustful of him , angered by his wrong assumptions about her , pretending to go along with the programme he 'd arranged ! |
| 8 | In the sand you see the iron although it broke it more but this plough he 'd kept the thing fairly together . |
| 9 | The answer was even more unsettling — that this was the department he 'd worked in . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | And then recited the bits of gossip he 'd picked up . |
| 14 | Whatever the actual reasons for this , in his own mind he 'd singled out the fact that she must have got married . |
| 15 | The best years of his mind he 'd sacrificed to this godforsaken place and precious little did he have to show for it . |
| 16 | On the table in the milk bottle was the daffodil he 'd picked . |
| 17 | ANGLER Arthur Davis cast his line off Dover pier in Kent — and hooked the wig he 'd lost in the sea a week earlier . |
| 18 | Some let-out he 'd got in the contract . |
| 19 | They 'd taken the motorised dinghy across to explore the fairy-tale clarity of the water in the natural sea caves of the Blue Grotto , then on Roman 's orders had spurned the small cove he 'd mentioned as too crowded , and returned to take the yacht further out to sea , choosing a peaceful place to drop anchor and eat the picnic he 'd stowed away as a surprise … |
| 20 | One more story about O : he told me ( it was as if he was trying to explain the oddity of his lovemaking to me , as if he was trying to account for or apologise for the way he 'd treated me , or perhaps to reassure me concerning the effect he 'd had on me , I do n't know ) , in the morning he told me that there was one man , this had been just a couple of years previously , there was one man who had summoned him to his bedside to be counted amongst a farewell gathering of lovers , dear friends and great passions . |
| 21 | and erm of course computers did n't help in the slightest because er , I think the er , I may be wrong about this but as I understood it erm the computer programmer worked for West Suffolk but at the time of reorganization he 'd got himself another job . |
| 22 | But in the last surge of light he 'd seen beyond the reflection of the glass vizor — at the horror within . |
| 23 | She would have to have some money to support it , and it was only right he should pay for the pleasure he 'd had . |
| 24 | ‘ Perhaps , ’ he agreed before lapsing into silence , but not before she 'd seen his face reflect the pleasure he 'd experienced at her instant recognition of what was clearly one of his favourite recordings . |
| 25 | But there 's a couple of guys in another division over there that they were quite keen on er aircraft and they spent weeks building these bloody things and then er , and experienced flyer he 'd taken over to the other , other side of the estate when he had a bit of runway over there |
| 26 | He had spent a while in the toilet , most of the time with his ear to the stethoscope-like instrument he 'd pressed against the closed door . |
| 27 | The shambles at the end of his splendid evening was aggravating him sorely and he propelled Fiona into a seat at the table with some of the disgruntled force he 'd shown in Ronnie Curzon 's office . |
| 28 | Yet though she knew she 'd been a fool and totally lacking in self-control , still tangled in the sensual web he 'd spun so effortlessly , she could n't regret it . |
| 29 | His bedroom was the Sleeping Beauty scene he 'd done for Biba 's children 's department and the kitchen area was full of artificial trees — which his party guests used to piss against . |
| 30 | He described the scene he 'd witnessed in his mother 's bedroom , during A Man Called Ironside . |