Example sentences of "he 'd [vb pp] from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wished he 'd hung from the rail and reduced the distance , but that would have taken several seconds to set up and his pursuer had already been half-way across the room . |
| 2 | He looked as though he 'd stepped from the pages of a history book . |
| 3 | His father had died and he bought the property with money he 'd inherited from the estate . |
| 4 | He 'd fallen from a second floor window . |
| 5 | a man stuck ‘ jewels ’ he 'd gathered from the beach |
| 6 | Then there were the bruises on his knees and elbows that he 'd received from the fall over the trip-wire at Jacqui 's . |
| 7 | ‘ Yes , I have , have n't I , ’ he had agreed cheerfully , clearly pleased at the speedy , efficient response to the phone calls he 'd made from the Meadowses ' ranch house the day before . |
| 8 | A large suitcase lay on the bed , still full of the clothes he 'd taken from the other room . |
| 9 | Kalchu climbed on to the roof of the house , and with the flame he 'd brought from the shrine fire set light to the two piles of jharo . |
| 10 | He took out the keys that he 'd brought from the office back home , and opened the door . |
| 11 | ‘ Each dealer knew well the cattle he 'd brought from the Irish villages . |
| 12 | When police raided his house , they found a fifteenth century Bastiano which he 'd stolen from a gallery in Venice last week . |
| 13 | The horror remained on their faces , but for some reason he 'd disappeared from the scene . |
| 14 | It was pink , one he 'd had from a baby . |
| 15 | Another of his treasures , the seventh volume of Gaud Maybellome 's Encyclopaedia of Heavenly Signs , originally written in the language of Third Dominion academics but widely translated for the delectation of the proletariat , he 'd bought from a woman in the city of Jassick , who 'd approached him in a gaming room where he was attempting to explain cricket to a group of the locals , and said she recognized him from stories her husband ( who was in the Autarch 's army in Yzordderrex ) had told . |
| 16 | He delivered the letter , together with a few flowers he 'd nicked from a cemetery . |
| 17 | I did n't know about the woman and thought he 'd chipped from the left-hand side of the fairway to the right-hand side . |
| 18 | ‘ But the other , the man , the forensic pathologist thought he 'd died from the effects of nerve gas . ’ |
| 19 | Hawkins was standing at the top where he 'd climbed from the ladder and was gazing nonplussed at the strange scarecrow on the floor . |
| 20 | He was wearing the démodé pinstriped suit he 'd got from a junk-shop for a production of Arturo Ui ( ‘ grossly overplayed' — Glasgow Herald ) and the tie he 'd worn as Harry in Marching Song ( ‘ adequate if uninspiring' — Oxford Mail . |