Example sentences of "[Wh adv] he 'd [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He always sort of backpedalled whenever he 'd exposed his feelings . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ For instance , if someone had n't heard from a man friend for — oh , for a couple of weeks or so-when he 'd said vaguely he 'd ring — I mean , she might wonder if there was something wrong , if he was ill , or if she 'd offended in some way . |
| 3 | She could n't stop thinking about Nicolo , about how he 'd treated her , not just last night but moments before . |
| 4 | How he 'd made their evening for them . ’ |
| 5 | And him always bumming on to Derek about how he 'd taped the whole of Brideshead Revisited . |
| 6 | I asked him how he 'd done it but he would n't tell me . |
| 7 | Sure , right after he 'd made the captain of the vital supplies ship Antares promise never to talk about Heaven 's Gate — he did n't like thinking about how he 'd done that — he 'd called Magrit over a scrambled beam . |
| 8 | Unusual was n't it , how he 'd done it ! |
| 9 | I remembered my father 's story of how he 'd played in a game ‘ against the pick , the pick , of Catterick Camp ’ and won it singlehanded by tackling again and again a big winger from the Scots Guards . |
| 10 | It 's ridiculous , she thought angrily ; he can bring tears to my eyes just by making me remember the simple things , like the way he reached out and unlocked the seatbelt for me — he 'd done it with one fluid gesture , no fumbling with it — how he had flung his jacket on to the back seat with the same faultless grace , how he 'd sauntered round the back of the car with a bemused smile when he 'd winkled it into a tight spot . |
| 11 | Guilt for how he 'd screwed everything up . |
| 12 | Please do not do er what a young man did the other day went to his house , he was the victim of a burglary , he very proudly announced that he 'd fitted one of these locks to his front door when we saw how he 'd fitted it , he 'd actually chiselled out the majority of the side of his door in and filled it up with Polyfilla ! |
| 13 | That sweet smell , it was strange how he 'd recognised it . |
| 14 | He laughed remembering again how he 'd insisted that Miss Lavant was Mrs Abigail 's sister . |
| 15 | How he 'd eaten the cake to the very last crumb , |
| 16 | Just look at how he 'd arranged her life to suit his plans . |
| 17 | After the disappointment of Paris , when everyone kept reminding him how he 'd missed five kicks out of six in the Parc des Princes , there was bound to be a reaction from Hastings at Murrayfield . |
| 18 | And Philip remembered how he 'd seen her go out two weeks ago with yellow flowers in the back seat of the car . |
| 19 | He could n't wait to get back to the station and brag about how he 'd seen him . |
| 20 | Another witness , taxi driver David Harvey described how he 'd seen two cars flashing by , about three feet apart , in the opposite direction . |
| 21 | and how he 'd seen prison and er they 'd said they had n't any prisons but he found one and erm hospitals and all that sort of thing and at the end of the week 's visit erm one of the very high ups , whom he named and I 've forgotten the name of him , I think I 'll just use that , thank you erm sent for h he , he was brought before him as it were and the man said to him are there any questions er at the end of your week that you want to ask and he said well perhaps there is one he said erm Winston Churchill was here erm a month or two , a few months ago |
| 22 | It was also how he 'd overheard me and Kenny the barman talking and drawn his own paranoid conclusions which had led to both me and Kenny wishing we 'd taken out medical insurance . |
| 23 | He 'd just been rather cleverer and more subtle at how he 'd gone about seducing her , even ensuring that she 'd initiate the first moves . |
| 24 | ‘ Marius wrote a letter to his son last November — this is a copy of it — complaining in humble terms about how he 'd left himself short by the gift and not taken inflation into account , and would Nigel let him have a small income from various shares and properties ? |
| 25 | Surkov asked how he 'd known she was in London . |
| 26 | ‘ It was a photograph of Mark and I heard how he 'd qualified as a chiropractor and set up in Falmouth where it 's uphill work . |
| 27 | A lady in Pierremont shared our misgivings ‘ in its present form the scheme is in a non-starter in Darlington ’ and a chap round Carmel Road way told how he 'd tried in vain to interest either police or neighbours in a scheme . |
| 28 | I 'd no idea how he 'd got the invite because it was supposed to be a tournament for the top eight players in the world , and he had n't reached that standard . |
| 29 | For a moment she was confused ; she thought it was the thin man , and she could n't work out how he 'd got behind them . |
| 30 | With a sinking feeling she knew what he meant — he had no intention of telling his brother how he 'd got himself into this situation . |