Example sentences of "[noun pl] he 'd [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The animals he 'd seen had always been well looked after . |
| 3 | She walked round the room , looking at the fragments he 'd preserved from their life together . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | From the glimpses he 'd caught he believed she 'd had slight curves — he would n't have fancied her otherwise . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | How prophetic had been those words he 'd written . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I 've proved that , yes — ’ in the words he 'd used that very morning ‘ — even Bluebeard has to take time off . |
| 12 | He himself was only a little shy — and obviously very proud of the English words he 'd acquired in the few months since his arrival . |
| 13 | He 'd done it again , she realised in amazement — with just a few choice words he 'd knocked her for six . |
| 14 | The Frenchman 's dark aquiline features and unsmiling silences made him think of history-book pictures he 'd seen of the warrior heroes of ancient Greece and Rome , and the dismay he had felt at first when their car had struck the Annamese villager had increased his sense of awe . |
| 15 | Once the researcher arrived though , Harrison was as friendly as you like , showed her around the house that he built himself , even showed her the pictures he 'd painted , and best of all , agreed to be a guest on Aspel and Company . |
| 16 | He subsequently er went to work at the Berlick in latter years and , and this man was just sweeping-up at the Berlick and I could n't believe it cos he was so high up in the technology in the war and he 'd be a dental mechanic and he 'd come down to just being a sweeper-up , and he used to show me the pay packets he 'd got in the war and you know it was fantastic money even , even by today 's standards this is going back fifteen years |
| 17 | When old Aaron Tyson from Limestone Hill sold to the greengrocer 's the turnips he 'd stacked up for his sheep . |
| 18 | fifty eight roles he 'd done earlier on in his career and he wanted to sort of you know , have a go at everything |
| 19 | Through nominees he 'd bought up a major holding in the company . |
| 20 | His voice was guarded , but through it all she could hear the yearning and she wished she could break through the barriers he 'd erected against her ; she dearly wanted him to reveal his true self . |
| 21 | She wanted to make Dan sound as good as possible and after some of the stunts he 'd played on her in the past that was difficult . |
| 22 | The route to the door of the sanctum was as familiar to him as the limbs he 'd lost . |
| 23 | Dauntless had seen nothing remotely intriguing for hours ; this was not one of the most attractive areas he 'd travelled through . |
| 24 | The director said ‘ Action ’ , the sound recordist said ‘ Running ’ , the assistant cameraman said ‘ One forty-five take one ’ , and I put the first question — how did he think the war would have gone if he 'd started it with the 300 U-boats he 'd asked for in 1938 ? |
| 25 | Like the time she 'd found Will Pegg 's pockets full of iron nails he 'd filched from Samson . |
| 26 | She had half expected him to contact her after she had turned away the team of cleaners he 'd sent to her house to clear up the mess , but she had heard nothing . |
| 27 | After the wounds he 'd seen in his time , how could one little splinter have such an effect ? |
| 28 | Another great Therapy ? story revolves around a character called Eddie Faith , who found religion at a Christian meeting one night , and the next day walked into the local police station and confessed to 24 robberies he 'd committed in the previous year . |
| 29 | But William 's grandad was too busy working to notice or care , riding shotgun to a great clattering brute of a knitting machine that reminded him of the Irish cobs he 'd broken in for the brewery ; he could knit thirty fully fashioned stockings an hour , sixteen hours a day . |
| 30 | Leonora thrust out a foot clad in one of the new rubber-soled shoes he 'd bought her . |