Example sentences of "and [conj] he 'd [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd walked round the engine sheds , he said , where he 'd looked long and lovingly at the old locomotives , and where he 'd seen schoolboys and middle-aged men carefully recording numbers and wheel-arrangements in their note-books . |
| 2 | She went very red , and seeing he 'd scored , Will added slyly : ‘ I ai n't going to make trouble , leastways not if th'bist sensible . |
| 3 | A moment 's hesitation told her that he had , and that he 'd seen . |
| 4 | But to my dismay he said he 'd got a local caddie for Birkdale , and that he 'd misunderstood me when I said I 'd caddie for him anywhere . |
| 5 | And then Luke came in and said the fire was fine and that he 'd bashed the cushions up a bit , to make it all OK for them . |
| 6 | And this man said that he was a lay reader , and that he 'd retired , he 'd come back from Australia , and he though that he would like to help out in the parish . |
| 7 | As soon as you deigned to tell me that the Svend you were looking for was a student , and that he 'd used my home as a hotel , I recalled that my nephew spent a night here shortly after I moved in so that he could attend a lecture at the city university , and that I 'd entrusted him with a spare key so he could come and go as he pleased . ’ |
| 8 | He said his lawyer had persuaded him to contest his father 's will and that he 'd regretted it ever since . |
| 9 | ‘ They said he was a spy , and that he 'd sold Government secrets to another country . |
| 10 | No one asked that question , they simply focused upon er the , the communist insurrection in the south and the American , American commitment to the global containment of communism meant that they had to go and do something about it and domestic political pressures were there too er President Kennedy came out of the Cuban missiles crisis a hero because his people mistakenly believed that he 'd won a foreign policy success and that he 'd acted in a restrained and statesmanlike manor . |
| 11 | Caroline claimed she 'd bathed him , massaged him and that he 'd had her several times dressed in school uniform . |
| 12 | And I says only that he 's gone to back to J J and I says , and that he 'd had enough . |
| 13 | He 'd trusted her ; even when everything seemed to point against her , and although he 'd known her only a few short days , he 'd believed in her . |
| 14 | beautiful And if he 'd caused me Pain , well |
| 15 | There was something mysterious about him and she wanted to ask so many questions , but he had that locked-in look , so that even if she risked Salt 's caustic tongue and asked outright about how he 'd come to be a slave , what it was like in Jamaica , if Africa was full of cannibals and if he 'd eaten people , she 'd probably get no more than a few shrugs for answers . |
| 16 | Fair enough : - I agree that Wilko did a good job breaking in Cantona , and if he 'd gone to the scum then he 'd probably have moved on just as quickly . |
| 17 | ‘ I think it would have been brilliant if they 'd given him more of a chance and if he 'd given a bit more . |
| 18 | He wanted her badly , and if he 'd taken her in his arms she did n't think she would have put up any kind of resistance . |
| 19 | So while he 's looking for you somebody could run out and kick the tin , there you go and fetch him , and if he 'd caught anybody and when you kicked that tin the other , well you could all go and hide . |
| 20 | and then there was another man a way up Street and and he 'd made the claw carved the claw and balls . |
| 21 | And since he 'd opened it up in the first place — and he definitely owed David Dennis a drink for putting him onto it — every chance of a couple of TV spots on the strength of it . |
| 22 | In fact , I remember when I first introduced him to my father and before he 'd said a word , I said , ‘ This is my father ’ who told me afterwards that he had n't realized that it was a boy because I mean … long hair — his hair was really long . |
| 23 | I could see from the onlooking faces that he was coming for me and at what speed , and when I felt the air behind me move and heard the brush of his clothes I went down fast on one knee and whirled and punched upwards hard into the bottom of his advancing rib cage and then shifted my weight into his body and upwards so as to lift him wholesale off the floor , and before he 'd got that sorted out I had one of his wrists in my hand and he ended up on his feet with me behind him , his arm in a nice painful lock and my mouth by his ear . |
| 24 | David attempted to reassure him , and after he 'd arranged for him to be seen in the casualty department of the local eye unit he asked the factory welfare officer , Louise Raymond , to take him over . |
| 25 | And after he 'd gone , and Isobel had returned to the newsroom to file all the dead stories and check the agency printers for the next hour 's updates ready to hand over to Jim , the late-shift newsreader , it briefly crossed her mind that maybe , just maybe , a rising star of journalism with her eye on the national media might have asked a couple of more searching questions . |
| 26 | And after he 'd climbed down from Cloud Nine , Brian told me to remind you that Cilla 's new album Through the Years , which does indeed feature duets with Barry Manilow , Cliff Richard and Dusty Springfield , is in the shops now . |
| 27 | He was out in a field one day sniffing glue and after he 'd finished he stumbled home . |
| 28 | And he did the course and after he 'd finished the course he found a house up Road and er sent for the family . |
| 29 | The shock was so great that it brought tears to his eyes , and when he 'd turned off the tap and dried his hand , the tears did n't stop . |
| 30 | He had wanted her himself so badly , and when he 'd heard of her wedding he had been insanely jealous . |