Example sentences of "he 'd [vb pp] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there without doubt were the elusive twin spires of Saigon 's cathedral that he 'd seen from far off , stationary now and clearly visible , standing sentinel over the wide , tree-lined avenues . |
| 2 | It was Jack Ashdown , and he 'd heard from Lucy again . |
| 3 | ‘ I was sharing a cell with an Irishman and he reckoned he 'd heard from another man in there that there was a plan to kill MacQuillan . |
| 4 | He wished he 'd hung from the rail and reduced the distance , but that would have taken several seconds to set up and his pursuer had already been half-way across the room . |
| 5 | Certainly , since the disturbing emotions unleashed at Ghar Hasan , he 'd withdrawn from her in some subtle way . |
| 6 | He looked as though he 'd stepped from the pages of a history book . |
| 7 | Despite the casual modern clothes he wore , he looked as if he 'd stepped from some early-Renaissance painting . |
| 8 | His father had died and he bought the property with money he 'd inherited from the estate . |
| 9 | He 'd retired from caddying at Birkdale when he was eighty-nine — they could n't persuade him to wind down . |
| 10 | As a boy in high school he 'd progressed from World-War-I aircraft-kits to model railways , his mind and his hands responding most happily to the assemblage of pistons , valves , wheels , with their appropriate adjustments and lubrications . |
| 11 | Since he 'd progressed from feet , to wheel-power , |
| 12 | He would n't have minded so much if there 'd been a rise somewhere along the line — a moment of triumph , no matter how brief — but he 'd gone from children 's programmes to women 's programmes to the Devil in one slow , unspectacular but continuous slide . |
| 13 | During the exchange itself he 'd moved from suspicion to disbelief to disgust and finally to acceptance of Estabrook 's proposal . |
| 14 | He 'd fallen from a second floor window . |
| 15 | And now that he 'd escaped from that awful prison , come he would , she knew that as certainly as she knew daylight would follow darkness . |
| 16 | He 'd , he 'd escaped from one of the prisons . |
| 17 | He 'd escaped from one of the prisons . |
| 18 | Er he 'd escaped from Leeds or summat . |
| 19 | a man stuck ‘ jewels ’ he 'd gathered from the beach |
| 20 | Then there were the bruises on his knees and elbows that he 'd received from the fall over the trip-wire at Jacqui 's . |
| 21 | But his continuing silence had brought her to the conclusion that he was content , with both his semi-bachelor life and his affair with his personal assistant , an affair he was still obviously continuing , she thought grimly , recalling the phone call he 'd received from his ‘ personal assistant ’ in Liz 's apartment earlier this morning . |
| 22 | He 'd begun from Inverness and started to work his way westward , around Beauly Firth and towards the forests of Corriehallie and Lochrosque . |
| 23 | She usually found those , though , just as she usually found any cash or letters that he 'd hidden from her . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | It was , therefore , with exaggerated haste that he undid his black tie , pulled the white shirt over his head , substituted a red T-shirt and a pair of old Norfolk drab cords that he 'd salvaged from his father 's wardrobe . |
| 26 | ‘ Yes , I have , have n't I , ’ he had agreed cheerfully , clearly pleased at the speedy , efficient response to the phone calls he 'd made from the Meadowses ' ranch house the day before . |
| 27 | Hitch reached inside his jacket and touched the butt of the Beretta he 'd taken from Scott . |
| 28 | Scott seemed satisfied by this and slipped the magazine free from his own pistol , jamming in the full one he 'd taken from Hitch 's Beretta . |
| 29 | A large suitcase lay on the bed , still full of the clothes he 'd taken from the other room . |
| 30 | She walked round the room , looking at the fragments he 'd preserved from their life together . |