Example sentences of "he 'd [vb pp] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | They 'd no internal passports in this tiny country , but from what he 'd seen of this building they had computers the like of which the Leningrad Militia could only dream about . |
| 3 | He 'd heard of the place . |
| 4 | He had wanted her himself so badly , and when he 'd heard of her wedding he had been insanely jealous . |
| 5 | He thought he 'd heard of the Box . |
| 6 | He 'd heard of a buyer with a hunger that was not being satisfied through conventional markets , and Klein had allowed it to be known that he might be able to lay his hands on something attractive . |
| 7 | There was always a hunger for newspapers and magazines ( usually preferred to books ) and he 'd heard of baptizers in Patashoqua who named children by stabbing a copy of the London Times with a pin and bequeathing the first three words they pricked upon the infant , however unmusical the combination . |
| 8 | Er and I asked him if he 'd heard of you and he said no . |
| 9 | In short he 'd heard of the last minute vacancy a sort of electoral bucket shop familiar to Hexham Conservatives through Tony Blair , a friend through Cranston 's sideline as a Labour front bench trade and industry adviser . |
| 10 | This was what he 'd wanted of her all the time ; now , he was finally getting to it , baiting the trap not with jewels or furs but with what he assumed would matter to her . |
| 11 | Way back , he found the sketch he 'd made of the hide . |
| 12 | To have had to practically beg the man to cooperate with him , and now be faced with the God-awful mess he 'd made of it . |
| 13 | That was what he 'd thought of every morning since he 'd first started feeding them with Mrs Wright 's grain . |
| 14 | He 'd thought of a way , how he could get out without his Mum and Dad knowing . |
| 15 | And going away , he 'd thought of that too . |
| 16 | He 'd thought of her constantly , hoping she still worked for the Bradford family , and the invitation to Christmas dinner with them had caused him more elation than Maud , his wife , though he had n't dared show it . |
| 17 | Carson had only just put the phone down after trying to get Alison 's number from Enquiries , but as he 'd waited for his call to be taken he 'd thought of her , perhaps contemptuous of his anxiety and annoyed by his persistence , and he 'd hung up without even making his request . |
| 18 | ‘ Well , he would have done if he 'd thought of it . |
| 19 | My God , it was years since he 'd thought of her , even . |
| 20 | There were some weekends when he would phone me up and ask if he could come round because he 'd thought of something new for me to do , and he 'd jump into his car and come all the way just to give me a new inflection on a word ! ’ |
| 21 | He glanced at John Russell again , then over to me like he 'd thought of something . |
| 22 | It seemed as if he 'd thought of everything . |
| 23 | As it happened Paddington was having trouble about what to buy the Brown family for Christmas and he wished he 'd thought of it himself . |
| 24 | I was everything he 'd dreamed of . |
| 25 | ‘ Poor Tom would have been so very unhappy if he 'd known of this situation , ’ she 'd sniffed while fumbling for a handkerchief . |
| 26 | ‘ But if he 'd known of this outrage , ’ said Philip , looking from one to the other of them with searching eyes , ‘ the boy would have told me in Isambard 's presence . |
| 27 | She had looked unnaturally pensive , uncertain , when he 'd spoken of their childhood days at The Grange and Harry 's face had lit up with a special glow . |
| 28 | Returning to his old job , he 'd learned of the opportunity . |
| 29 | There 'd been a repeat of the sensational reports about Waite — he 'd died of a heart attack in an Iranian prison camp and his body returned to Beirut , or the island of Cyprus was on alert for his imminent release — and a three-day series on all the hostages in the Independent , but there was still no questioning of government policy nor a proper analysis of what was really happening . |
| 30 | A post mortem investigation revealed he 'd died of carbon monoxide poisoning . |