Example sentences of "what he 'd [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was n't what he 'd planned at all , a detour . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | as if he were telling the story to someone else , Culley gave him a full account of what he 'd heard on the tape . |
| 4 | Pascoe realized that what he 'd heard in the voice on the phone had n't been age , but sickness . |
| 5 | as if this was n't at all what he 'd bargained for . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ I wish I knew , ’ Gregson said wearily , and repeated what he 'd seen at Whitely . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | If he hopped into bed with you that night , he was only doing what he 'd done with a hundred and one others . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | We all imagined he had some secret new money-spinning idea and soon we 'd all be amazed at what he 'd done to the place , and coming here to marvel at the crowds he 'd managed to attract … but I do n't think he was ever looking for a site for some viable business venture ; I think he was just looking for somewhere suited to his burned-out , fed-up , pissed-off mood . |
| 16 | I assumed at the time that he was crying for the garden and what he 'd done to it . |
| 17 | No matter what he 'd done to her , her feelings for him had n't changed . |
| 18 | Angy had been stabbed in the throat and that 's exactly what he 'd done to her portrait … he was afraid that would all come out and everyone would think he 'd done it . ’ |
| 19 | I wanted to kill Blyth there and then ; the hiding he got from his father , my dad 's brother James , was not enough as far as I was concerned , not for what he 'd done to Eric , my brother . |
| 20 | ‘ No , I saw the bruise when he came back to the shop on Tuesday evening and I asked him what he 'd done to himself . |
| 21 | now I 've got two little girls he said I hate to turn away knowing what he 'd done to the last little girl |
| 22 | and what he 'd done to this pillow was no one 's business . |
| 23 | SHe knew he was holed up at Roirbak 's place , and was convinced hir instincts were right that Malamute hated Penumbra and was coping with moral dilemmas about what he 'd done for her . |
| 24 | It was uncanny what he 'd said to his Mum about Uncle Walter phoning up about his bad chest and now him being in hospital for real . |
| 25 | He told her what he 'd said to the woman and how stupid he 'd felt . |
| 26 | Jed thought of that night at Mitch 's and what he 'd said to Sharon . |
| 27 | Lucien could n't remember what he 'd said to the prophet . |
| 28 | She thought of what he 'd said about New England that day he 'd brought her to Rome , and how arrogantly she 'd reacted . |
| 29 | And then I thought again of Osvaldo , of what he 'd said in the silver light of the prison yard , his smile and the ‘ Bom dia ! ’ with which he had favoured me , knowing even then the terminating choice , the course that lay before him . |
| 30 | ‘ I wonder what he 'd written on him . ’ |