Example sentences of "[noun pl] he 'd [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She walked round the room , looking at the fragments he 'd preserved from their life together . |
| 2 | They 'd danced to Michael 's band and her glossy pink trousers flashed and moved in the dimmed lights , and he had felt elated and mildly drunk , and had lost most of the inhibitions he 'd had about dancing , until it became clear to his confused brain that the drummer , who had soft dark hair and was probably a potential Celtic supporter , was getting on so well with Amanda that perhaps they should move on elsewhere , and he swayed out of the room , pushing her in front of him , and bumped into someone at the door , and had realised it was the man in the raincoat , only he was in a dark suit and a tie with geometric designs . |
| 3 | He 'd never told Mum about the words he 'd had with the relief officers , which was a blessing really because she would never have shut up about it . |
| 4 | He himself was only a little shy — and obviously very proud of the English words he 'd acquired in the few months since his arrival . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He subsequently er went to work at the Berlick in latter years and , and this man was just sweeping-up at the Berlick and I could n't believe it cos he was so high up in the technology in the war and he 'd be a dental mechanic and he 'd come down to just being a sweeper-up , and he used to show me the pay packets he 'd got in the war and you know it was fantastic money even , even by today 's standards this is going back fifteen years |
| 7 | His voice was guarded , but through it all she could hear the yearning and she wished she could break through the barriers he 'd erected against her ; she dearly wanted him to reveal his true self . |
| 8 | She wanted to make Dan sound as good as possible and after some of the stunts he 'd played on her in the past that was difficult . |
| 9 | The director said ‘ Action ’ , the sound recordist said ‘ Running ’ , the assistant cameraman said ‘ One forty-five take one ’ , and I put the first question — how did he think the war would have gone if he 'd started it with the 300 U-boats he 'd asked for in 1938 ? |
| 10 | Like the time she 'd found Will Pegg 's pockets full of iron nails he 'd filched from Samson . |
| 11 | She had half expected him to contact her after she had turned away the team of cleaners he 'd sent to her house to clear up the mess , but she had heard nothing . |
| 12 | After the wounds he 'd seen in his time , how could one little splinter have such an effect ? |
| 13 | Another great Therapy ? story revolves around a character called Eddie Faith , who found religion at a Christian meeting one night , and the next day walked into the local police station and confessed to 24 robberies he 'd committed in the previous year . |
| 14 | Meet the bundle of emotions he 'd created with just one of his psych-tech tricks . |
| 15 | But any woman would have reacted with anger to his insults , he reminded himself , especially if the barbs he 'd slung at her were accurate and she was trying to convince him otherwise . |
| 16 | For nearly fifty years he 'd worked with the New York Philharmonic , the orchestra 's manager , Nick Webster , was one of the first to pay tribute to his talent at America 's best known classical musician . |
| 17 | A pink tinge coloured her cheeks as she remembered the things he 'd whispered to her while they 'd made love . |
| 18 | And he listened , he would n't really say what he had been doing , but later he showed me some of the things he 'd done in the Hebrides . |
| 19 | Things he 'd seen on ships and in Jamaica . |
| 20 | It was n't just the terrible things he 'd implied about Isabelle , although , God knew , they were bad enough . |
| 21 | ‘ Each dealer knew well the cattle he 'd brought from the Irish villages . |
| 22 | And on a er visit to a museum a few weeks later he also discovered flying boots of exact prints he 'd seen on the wet floor . |
| 23 | In dreams he 'd drifted through these rooms , and heard the Maestro 's voice summoning him up the stairs , up ! up ! , to the room at the top where Sartori had worked his work . |
| 24 | Chris had already been given a severe ticking-off when he 'd admitted to the box-office that he 'd lost count of the number of tickets and cheques he 'd stuffed into all his suit pockets . |
| 25 | The wearing of boxer shorts was just one of the many American ways he 'd adopted over the years . |
| 26 | The luminaries he 'd entertained over the decades — the defecting dancers and minor spies , the addicted debutantes , the rock stars with Messianic leanings and the bishops who made idols of barrow-boys — they 'd all had their moments of glory , then fallen . |
| 27 | As for his own peers — the friends he 'd had before Vanessa — most had faded . |
| 28 | When Ronald Summerfield died three years ago his house and shop were found to be piled high with antiques he 'd collected over the years . |
| 29 | Instead of the sexy bits he 'd opted for poetic descriptions of London at night and the philosophic chapter from his last book about the beauties of a relationship between a young girl and an older man . |
| 30 | And there were all the other women he 'd made lucky too — all the hairdressers he 'd flirted with , all the travel agents , florists and girls in bars . |