Example sentences of "[Wh det] he 'd [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My favourite was a Wendy house which he 'd furnished with a tiny drop-leaf mahogany table , two matching chairs and a T.V. with clicking knobs and a picture of the Queen behind the perspex screen . |
| 2 | As he opened his mouth in protest , she lifted her hand to stop him and her elbow caught the card which he 'd pushed into the bin . |
| 3 | Neither was she too happy about the epithet ‘ min skat ’ , which he 'd applied to her for the second time that day . |
| 4 | What however he did seek to do , starting from about nineteen-hundred erm and ten , or nineteen-twelve , was to apply the same methodological procedures which he 'd applied in mathematics , to a range of philosophical problems . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It was advertising mail , like most of that which he 'd opened on his first visit and later burned in the forest . |
| 7 | After a while Bridget asked if she 'd like to see over the house , and Kevin 's room , which he 'd shared with Shamus , of course . |
| 8 | He lived alone now , in a small house in Highgate which he 'd shared with his wife before she left him . |
| 9 | When police raided his house , they found a fifteenth century Bastiano which he 'd stolen from a gallery in Venice last week . |
| 10 | It referred to a note which he 'd included with the Firearm Certificate application form and the fee , saying that he ( Sampson ) had a chance at a Weatherby Magnum Deluxe rifle at a price that was madness , but only if he could wrap the deal up within a few days . |
| 11 | He bent down to his briefcase which he 'd left on the floor , took out a folder , turned back the pages , and handed it to her . |
| 12 | The robber at Bath Road had grabbed £45,000 after shooting the two guards and made his initial getaway on a moped , found , say the prosecution , at the point at which he 'd switched to a getaway car driven by the second man . |
| 13 | There 'd been a fault in her original logic which he 'd seized upon , but she was already beginning to see the fallacy . |
| 14 | He produced the folded sheet of notepaper on which he 'd copied down Blackbeard 's letter . |
| 15 | When he asked for an artificial leg for his newly amputated right leg he was told not only that he could n't have one , but he 'd also have to give up his existing left false leg , which he 'd had for six years . |
| 16 | He had in his hurry left one drawer just a little open , and was now delving into the carpet-bag , which he 'd found at the bottom of the shelved larder . |
| 17 | This was n't what he 'd planned at all , a detour . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | as if he were telling the story to someone else , Culley gave him a full account of what he 'd heard on the tape . |
| 20 | Pascoe realized that what he 'd heard in the voice on the phone had n't been age , but sickness . |
| 21 | as if this was n't at all what he 'd bargained for . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Dana had embraced the dancing and singing lessons with fervour , but Claudia , trailing behind her sister , had been bored to tears by them , and after a time her father had put an end to what he 'd seen as a waste of his money and Claudia 's time . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ I wish I knew , ’ Gregson said wearily , and repeated what he 'd seen at Whitely . |
| 26 | Marron told police he 'd been copying what he 'd seen on a pornographic video : Judge Paul Clark said it showed how harmful such videos were . |
| 27 | The accused had fixed a new glass fibre wing on his car the day after the accident , and he said he could n't remember what he 'd done with the old one . |
| 28 | If he hopped into bed with you that night , he was only doing what he 'd done with a hundred and one others . ’ |
| 29 | So I told him things I 'd never told anyone — how much I resented Dad for what he 'd done to Mum , and how Mum had suffered , how painful the whole thing had been , though I was only now beginning to feel it . |
| 30 | My arms ached to go round him , but I kept them rigidly at my sides for a long time , punishing him for what he 'd done to me earlier . |