Example sentences of "what he 'd [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was when she 'd first decided to try to make up to her father for what he 'd lost . |
| 2 | Now of course what happened is that we claimed , we w went to the insurance and then they took they got a list of what was damaged and we replaced it for what he 'd lost er exactly . |
| 3 | Jim thought this was priceless and laughed so loud and so long that he brought the Duty Officer down from Flying Control to find out what he 'd missed . |
| 4 | ‘ He only found out what he 'd missed a few years ago when some German came in asking questions . |
| 5 | James stuck his hands in his pockets moodily as he want back into Blue Horizons trying to think carefully about what he 'd overheard that Saturday afternoon , and how he could turn it to his advantage . |
| 6 | He 'd tell presidents about their appointees , promise appointees and Senators he 'd suppressed their files , let certain papers know — on plain paper , in plain envelopes — what he 'd overheard or snatch-shot or been told . |
| 7 | I wonder what he 'd intended doing with the cottage . ’ |
| 8 | If he 'd been able to keep from gloating , she 'd have ended up in his bed , which was what he 'd intended right from the beginning . |
| 9 | This was n't what he 'd planned at all , a detour . |
| 10 | Like Wiegand , they would all be thinking he had tried to kill Tolonen , but that was n't what he 'd wanted . |
| 11 | And went on , ‘ When my mother died , ten years ago , my father did what he 'd wanted to do for a long time and moved into here , leaving me the palazzo . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I do not live with you , ’ she snapped , which was , of course , exactly what he 'd wanted her to do , because he began to grin the second the angry disclaimer left her mouth . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He was impressed by what he 'd heard so far , but how was all this going to come about ? |
| 15 | Pascoe realized that what he 'd heard in the voice on the phone had n't been age , but sickness . |
| 16 | as if he were telling the story to someone else , Culley gave him a full account of what he 'd heard on the tape . |
| 17 | But from what he 'd heard it all broke down every year and had to be started up again in the spring , and — ‘ I do n't know , ’ he said . |
| 18 | as if this was n't at all what he 'd bargained for . |
| 19 | Your colleague ? ’ said Pamella , bemused , trying to remember who Stuart White was , and then , when it came back to her who Stuart White was , and what he 'd given her ( £500 ) and what she 'd done ( which was n't much ) and what he 'd done ( which she does n't remember being precisely , exactly , what he later said that he 'd done ) she very rapidly saw what they meant , screamed , shut the door and hit the phone . |
| 20 | Meredith queued up at the till , studying the amount on the bill , and automatically checked what he 'd given her while she was waiting . |
| 21 | Perkin would n't have risked any way to kill me that meant creeping up on me , not after what he 'd seen . |
| 22 | Grant , stunned , sat staring at the cell entrance , not sure if he had imagined what he 'd seen , or not . |
| 23 | What he 'd seen done to Grant made Forster realise that whatever it was struck with demonic speed and savagery . |
| 24 | In this , he was only doing what he 'd seen Jesus do . |
| 25 | He leapt up and ran to the window , telling his friends what he 'd seen . |
| 26 | Was any of those styles capable of capturing what he 'd seen ? |
| 27 | He 'd have to invent a new mode to reproduce what he 'd seen . |
| 28 | But he wanted to represent a protean form now , however impossible ; wanted to find a way to fix what he 'd seen at the door of his hotel room , when Pie'oh'pah 's many faces had been shuffled in front of him like cards in an illusionist 's deck . |
| 29 | ‘ Titch would n't go near the place after what happened , and I was surprised your grandad could after what he 'd seen . ’ |
| 30 | 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 . |