Example sentences of "[Wh det] he 'd [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could n't distinguish her from the darkness , but any lingering doubt that she might belong to the dream from which he 'd risen was dispatched as her hand went from his mouth to his bare chest . |
| 2 | My favourite was a Wendy house which he 'd furnished with a tiny drop-leaf mahogany table , two matching chairs and a T.V. with clicking knobs and a picture of the Queen behind the perspex screen . |
| 3 | It was painful enough knowing they had both let their love for each other slip so easily away , but the speed with which he 'd filled the void she 'd left really cut into her . |
| 4 | Martinho had lost no time in recounting the true details of Osvaldo 's moment of weakness , the point at which he 'd flipped his lid for the first and last time in his career , that murderous aberration which had been the doom of old friend and new foe alike . |
| 5 | As he opened his mouth in protest , she lifted her hand to stop him and her elbow caught the card which he 'd pushed into the bin . |
| 6 | He was standing with three friends and telling a tale in which he 'd conned some adversary into covering a dubious investment . |
| 7 | The American president was then left with a situation in which he 'd created a club which he hims he himself could n't join . |
| 8 | Gregson hung up and sat back on the bed , cradling a glass of whisky in his hand which he 'd poured himself from the room 's mini-bar . |
| 9 | They 'd both lived with their parents near Sutton , he already in the shipping business from which he 'd retired when they came to Dynmouth , she working in her father 's estate agency , doing part-time secretarial duties and arranging the flowers in the outer office . |
| 10 | A pewter pot and clean cups and saucers were on the table , and there was a rag mat in front of Paddy 's chair which he 'd said he had carried on his back from Hungerford Market . |
| 11 | In the house which their son had accused them of boringly christening Sweetlea the Dasses continued the lives which he 'd said were boring also . |
| 12 | Timothy nodded to himself , thinking about the sailing ships of the Spanish Armada and the severe face of the German Führer , of which he 'd seen pictures . |
| 13 | With annoying irrelevance it occurred to Quentin that the name of the film on the television screen was Three Smart Girls , which he 'd seen about thirty-five years ago , when he was a child himself . |
| 14 | He had entered the lounge at twenty past two and had ordered a sandwich and a large measure of whisky , which he 'd consumed quickly . |
| 15 | Neither was she too happy about the epithet ‘ min skat ’ , which he 'd applied to her for the second time that day . |
| 16 | What however he did seek to do , starting from about nineteen-hundred erm and ten , or nineteen-twelve , was to apply the same methodological procedures which he 'd applied in mathematics , to a range of philosophical problems . |
| 17 | Then he allowed the body to drop to the floor , watching it twitch for a second before stepping back into the shadows from which he 'd emerged . |
| 18 | So he , he thought he 'd do an experiment , er he took a small piece of radium which he 'd extracted from several tons of pitchblende and he put this bit of radium on his forearm and , and put a bandage round to hold it in place and left it there for a week and said right I 'll see what happens . |
| 19 | She did n't describe Lowell 's expression as he watched her go , nor the speed with which he 'd followed her after he had abruptly said good-bye to them . |
| 20 | The day had been warm , and since it was n't , he decided , an occasion for dressing , he settled for a light linen suit which he 'd worn rather a lot ten years ago in New Zealand . |
| 21 | He ran his eye down the list , looking at the column in which he 'd noted the time of day for each killing . |
| 22 | As Ace manoeuvred down the flank of the shuttle , letting her gauntlets scrape against the weld-seams and pock-marks in order to slow her drift towards the base of the craft , she saw that the Dalek Killer was using his weapon to cut through the metallic material of the surface on which he 'd parked . |
| 23 | She was wearing jeans and a denim shirt ( which he 'd bought her ) . |
| 24 | A girl ran out with his buns which he 'd forgotten . |
| 25 | We had a nice bottle of wine , and whenever he poured it he put his hand over the price-tag which he 'd forgotten to remove . |
| 26 | It was advertising mail , like most of that which he 'd opened on his first visit and later burned in the forest . |
| 27 | After a while Bridget asked if she 'd like to see over the house , and Kevin 's room , which he 'd shared with Shamus , of course . |
| 28 | He lived alone now , in a small house in Highgate which he 'd shared with his wife before she left him . |
| 29 | Caught up in the hysteria of the moment , Hoc ran blindly with the milling crowd , still clutching the bloodstained coupe-coupe with which he 'd felled the Corsican . |
| 30 | Tidy up something which he 'd overlooked ; wipe the mallet clean ; clear up the evidence of whatever it was he was doing here last night ; replace the keys on the body ? |