Example sentences of "he 'd [vb pp] in a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , if he 'd written in a more highfalutin way , or he 'd talked about Liz and myself , or a variety of other things , in a very pontificating way , it may never have got in the newspaper because they would have said , ‘ What is the relevance ? |
| 2 | It was n't what I wanted — even then I did n't feel it was right to get Ebert thrown out of the force for something he 'd said in a heated moment . |
| 3 | He plumped for the Glaswegian accent he 'd used in a Thirty-Minute Theatre ( ‘ Pointless ' — The Times ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He 'd woken in a shocking state , his mouth like the Sahara desert . |