Example sentences of "he 'd [verb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had mistaken it for an ashtray and I watched from the back seat as he painstakingly flicked his ash on to the small pile of dead matches and cigarette ends that he 'd accumulated in the bowl of the vent . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | But in the last surge of light he 'd seen beyond the reflection of the glass vizor — at the horror within . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The little white blossom he 'd seen on the road 's surface was stuck to the boy 's sandshoe ; it was n't a flower , it was a little paper charity flag for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution , the sort you secured to your lapel with a pin . |
| 6 | He 'd heard about the jail 's reputation for handling violent and dangerous offenders . |
| 7 | He thought he 'd heard of the Box . |
| 8 | He 'd heard of the place . |
| 9 | as if he were telling the story to someone else , Culley gave him a full account of what he 'd heard on the tape . |
| 10 | He 'd got the idea from a song he 'd heard on the radio while he was driving . |
| 11 | Pascoe realized that what he 'd heard in the voice on the phone had n't been age , but sickness . |
| 12 | How would he be if on one of those Saturday mornings when he 'd hung around the rectory she 'd recognized herself the bitterness beneath his grin ? |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He 'd supped with the devil and no spoon was long enough . |
| 15 | ANGLER Arthur Davis cast his line off Dover pier in Kent — and hooked the wig he 'd lost in the sea a week earlier . |
| 16 | His father had died and he bought the property with money he 'd inherited from the estate . |
| 17 | It 's ridiculous , she thought angrily ; he can bring tears to my eyes just by making me remember the simple things , like the way he reached out and unlocked the seatbelt for me — he 'd done it with one fluid gesture , no fumbling with it — how he had flung his jacket on to the back seat with the same faultless grace , how he 'd sauntered round the back of the car with a bemused smile when he 'd winkled it into a tight spot . |
| 18 | The palm wine he 'd drunk at the evening banquet must have driven all sense from him … his first taste . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | All 180 kids gathered right at his feet and he did a completely different show from any show that he 'd done in the sell-out places for five or six thousand . |
| 21 | ‘ That he 'd arranged for the bank to cash cheques on his and my signature until all this is settled . ’ |
| 22 | He 'd arranged with the parish priest to stay the night here . |
| 23 | If he 'd explained at the beginning — and it did n't cancel out the fact that he 'd lied to her , did it ? |
| 24 | So he 'd rushed to the field , catching a sun-dazed pony , scrambling onto the broad back , hair and scurf whitening the new trousers , cantering over the paddocks and clattering into the yard where Peter and Andrew were almost ready . |
| 25 | The reason he 'd gone over the wall was simple . |
| 26 | He 'd gone over the car with a cloth , wiping fingerprints from the steering wheel and the door handles , then he 'd tossed that into the Lancia . |
| 27 | And there was a single decker bus then , right , stopped in the middle of the road and there was an Escort and he 'd gone under the back right up to his windscreen like that the back |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | He 'd gone to the window and pulled the curtain back , looking at the dampness and the wire and the swimming-pool , the surface ruffled by rain . |
| 30 | No , he 'd gone to the apartment where Mahoney and Connie lived , found whatever it was , and then paid his visit to the hospital . |