Example sentences of "'d [verb] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps she 'd heard his panting , and the promises he 'd been making in the dark . |
| 2 | The local doc — the guy who 'd helped save Andy after he almost died under the ice all those years earlier — was on holiday at the time and there was a locum , a deputising doctor in charge of the practice , except from what the locals muttered later it seemed he 'd treated his stay in Strathspeld as a holiday , too , and spent more time on river banks with a rod in his hands than at bedsides toting a stethoscope . |
| 3 | Leith shared many a cup of coffee with Rosemary after that , and although Rosemary seemed reluctant to talk of her marriage at first , it gradually emerged that Derek Talbot was a womaniser who 'd treated his wife shamefully . |
| 4 | There was also Alec , a prison officer from Wormwood Scrubs ( when he 'd given his address and next of kin on a previous camp everyone had thought he was kidding ) ; Ken , who to everyone 's delight turned up with a guitar ( were we really going to sit round a campfire singing ? ) ; and David , an aircraft engineer who after fifteen years in the Scouts could ‘ do wonderful things with ropes ’ . |
| 5 | He always sort of backpedalled whenever he 'd exposed his feelings . ’ |
| 6 | The man took a couple of steps back as they headed for him ; but then they stopped , as if they 'd sensed his fury and found it to be a wall that they hesitated to scale . |
| 7 | They 'd altered his shift pattern twice in the past fortnight , and each time he 'd been taken away from working with patients and given something fiddling to do . |
| 8 | He 'd broken his rule . |
| 9 | They later discovered he 'd broken his leg in a road accident 6 weeks earlier , and although Odey had taken it to the vet he 'd ignored advice to have it operated on . |
| 10 | Yeah , I heard he 'd broken his leg . |
| 11 | In the meantime , in the Paris suburb of Montfermeil , the mayor refused to register children of immigrant descent in his town 's primary school , declaring that he 'd filled his quota of foreign children . |
| 12 | And she was n't going to rest until he 'd revised his opinion of her . |
| 13 | Before she 'd realised his intention , he 'd turned her deftly into his arms , pulled her with surprising gentleness against the hard warmth of his chest . |
| 14 | He 'd gathered his life around him like a cloak in which there was only room enough for one . |
| 15 | ‘ In the circumstances , although I could have wished he 'd delayed his visit another hour or so , the edge of my temper had become somewhat dulled by recent events . |
| 16 | He 'd discarded his trousers and was unfastening his shirt when she realised she was staring . |
| 17 | Guido 's totally unexpected reference to Arnie , and the way he 'd cocked his head at her and smiled as he 'd said it , had thrown her and made her feel totally vulnerable . |
| 18 | Down in the hold he 'd cracked his shins on the bumper of a small green car and she 'd laughed at his face and kissed him as if he 'd been a kid and for a moment he was thirteen and being hugged by Dave 's big sister , who was certainly large and confusing to thirteen year olds . |
| 19 | To find that she 'd pinched his windpipe shut . |
| 20 | My apologies , ’ she grinned , aware that she 'd wounded his massive ego . |
| 21 | He 'd won his case , though . |
| 22 | Imitating the scream of agony he 'd lifted his voice . |
| 23 | After he 'd booked his Brussels flight he used a public phone to call Stieber , his Chief of Security , in Threadneedle Street . |
| 24 | ‘ You do n't need to know about that , ’ Cleo said , but she could see she 'd caught his interest . |
| 25 | There was no denying that she 'd caught his interest . |
| 26 | I 'd forgotten his passion for manipulation . ’ |
| 27 | we 'd had the collection and then it was all choruses and then it was oh where were we , he 'd , then he 'd forgotten his glasses , could n't find his glasses , what page were we |
| 28 | ‘ He 'd dropped his rifle in the Abbey . ’ |
| 29 | Ari found it was strangely comforting to be told how confused Ewan had been at the time he 'd turned his back on his family . |
| 30 | The Milton Humberside who 'd clawed his way to the middle of the heating and lighting installation business in the space of only ten years ? |