Example sentences of "[adj] as he 'd [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Was she as old as he 'd thought ? |
| 2 | Not noticing the church had n't been quite as crass as he 'd feared , because whatever else the bomb had done , it had blown the church apart . |
| 3 | Meanwhile the chancellor , John Major says the gloomy news is n't over , because inflation is n't coming down as fast as he 'd predicted . |
| 4 | Carson said that in theory his own place was within the flood basin , but there had never been any trouble as long as he 'd lived there ; places right on the towpath used to get flooded regularly when the tide was high . |
| 5 | The expression on his face had grown hard and grim as he 'd scanned the paper in his hands , before angrily crunching it up into a ball and hurling it into a nearby waste-paper basket . |