Example sentences of "he 'd [adv] [vb pp] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The malai jumped a mile-you could see he 'd nearly had a heart-attack — before heading for the ground , shouting our number and whereabouts to his friends . |
| 2 | Roirbak led the way to the laboratory annexe of the complex , where he 'd already prepared a couple of rooms for their research . |
| 3 | Which , I later discovered , was most forthcoming for George but he 'd already had a couple of orange squashes himself . |
| 4 | Forester could simply melt away and leave the area , but his own freedom was n't his main concern ; he 'd already spent a week away from Cumbria , and he had a sick fear of returning to find the clinic ruins empty and the valley returned to placid normality . |
| 5 | ‘ He 'd already got a fare when we left the theatre . |
| 6 | He 'd even made a series of phone calls to arrange a lift . |
| 7 | But Kev , people were sayng he was a better passer before he 'd even played a match for them ! |
| 8 | Shaun 's last years at school had been difficult he 'd even taken a swing at a teacher at one point — and he 'd earned a reputation for the motherless Hammond boys that Wayne had found himself sharing even though he 'd done nothing to earn it . |
| 9 | " I wonder what he would have said , Chuck , if I 'd told him he 'd just served a drink to someone who 's probably going to be much more important one day than a run-of-the-mill Democratic senator from Virginia ? " |
| 10 | He 'd just attended a pottery class at the Guild Hall in Gloucester and as usual , went to get the bus home . |
| 11 | He was a red-faced man with a pitted complexion who always looked exhausted , as if he 'd just completed a marathon . |
| 12 | ‘ Mr Jacobsen , ’ she forced herself to speak slowly and calmly , refusing to let him know he 'd just lit a tinder within her , ‘ it may have escaped your notice that you were not the only member of the cast — come to that , you were n't the only male , either . |
| 13 | And he 'd just made a film and , we were watching something |
| 14 | Unless he 'd just bought a bed . |
| 15 | His tone was perfectly reasonable , affable even , so why did she feel as though he 'd just issued a command ? |
| 16 | It 's as if he 'd just had a snort of it . |
| 17 | If he 'd only told them he 'd just had a baby , things might have been different . |
| 18 | He 'd just had a stroke |
| 19 | The pop Poet Laureate of the cabaret circuit , Hegley chooses subjects from McDonalds to the Gulf War , from spaniels to spectacles — taking on a whole range of everyday tragedies — ‘ the other day I met a bloke lying on the pavement he 'd just had a stroke and I thought a man in his position might appreciate a joke so I said stand back please I 'm a comedian ’ |
| 20 | He 'd just had a letter from Joan telling him she was pregnant and had already chosen the name Jasmine if the child was a girl . |
| 21 | So I went and saw a building contractor , friend of me Dads and er he welcomed me with open arms , he 'd just got a contract for building council houses down Dunson Street at Netherfield . |
| 22 | He 'd also prepared a goat casserole with spinach . |
| 23 | ‘ Such hard luck on him — to find he 'd suddenly got a wife who was all the things he loathes — hysterical , difficult , clinging … |
| 24 | There was no way of explaining this , no parallel that he could reach for other than to say : that he 'd once made a wish , and the wish now appeared to have come true . |
| 25 | He 'd once had a drink with him in the Shaftesbury — Johnny , not the dentist — and really , he 'd could n't have been sweeter . |
| 26 | I do n't think he 'd ever seen a woman shop that fast ! ’ |
| 27 | I thought he 'd actually caught a defender as he headed it but er he has n't really got a good contact on the ball . |
| 28 | He 'd always had a thing about Famous Last Words . |
| 29 | He 'd only played a couple of games for 'em by then . |
| 30 | He could n't understand this exuberant friendliness in a boy he 'd only had a glimpse of twice . |