Example sentences of "[vb past] he 'd [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed he 'd only half heard her . |
| 2 | ‘ I imagined he 'd never seen her ! ’ |
| 3 | I noticed he 'd soon dropped the ‘ sir ’ as well . |
| 4 | I assumed he 'd just picked you for the resemblance . ’ |
| 5 | The twenty year old salesman claimed he 'd just pushed the animal away with his foot after it had messed all down his clothes . |
| 6 | He was sentenced to twelve months in jail but was released when the court heard he 'd already been in custody for ten months . |
| 7 | Greg , after a perfunctory tour round the makeshift gallery decided he 'd better slip off . |
| 8 | Maxim half turned away then decided he 'd better say his piece anyway . |
| 9 | Well , that simply meant he 'd temporarily grown tired of easy conquests ; after all , women must fall to his golden charms like ripe apples from a tree . |
| 10 | He wrote Paddy , published in Cyril Connelly 's Horizon about 1946 , and let them all have it , which meant he 'd even less chance of getting a job after that . |
| 11 | The River Police Headquarters Building was not far from Southwark Bridge , and Redpath felt he 'd better call there to put his problem , before getting involved in something that might turn out not to belong to his division at all . |
| 12 | From his demeanour , fierce and uncompromising , I knew he 'd already been denounced by Martinho . |
| 13 | ‘ Barratt was there , ’ says Howard , ‘ making sure everyone knew he 'd just had lunch with God . ’ |
| 14 | We finally departed from the house as the pillager 's husband was scrabbling through the kitchen drawers in search of a rubber band he knew he 'd once seen in there somewhere … |
| 15 | She knew he 'd never married . |
| 16 | Adam looked ashen , sick , gripping Undry as if his life depended on it ; and Ruth knew he 'd almost killed her just then . |
| 17 | As far as I knew he 'd always been on the level , and certainly there was no harm in his treating the Fraser girl after the shock she 'd presumably had . |
| 18 | His students thought he 'd finally flipped and started telling fairy stories , but this was no fairy story , this was a real Gothic Horror . |
| 19 | But he thought he 'd already decided . |
| 20 | ‘ Do n't I know that fella ? ’ said Dad , who because of his memory loss thought he 'd already seen every film or play he watched , had read every book he attempted , and knew every story he heard . |
| 21 | I thought he 'd just a few girls . |
| 22 | Then in the morning he thought he 'd better be getting back home so he started home and when he got home he discovered it was the harvest time . |
| 23 | He did n't know what Gesner was up to but he thought he 'd better tell the Direktor . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | He thought he 'd once heard someone saying that about her , but it now seemed that reason was n't the right one : the beach was hardly the place to catch a glimpse of Dr Greenslade , with his black bag and his stethoscope , which he sometimes wore round his neck on the street . |
| 26 | He also agreed he 'd never seen a skull fracture caused by a blow to the nose . |
| 27 | Her expression froze at that , and his heart seemed to sink into his guts as he realised he 'd almost said the wrong thing . |
| 28 | She remembered he 'd always been one for noticing things . |
| 29 | ‘ Doctor Andrews told me that he kept on saying how much he wished he could have left you enough money to live on ; but , as you know , nearly everything he possessed he 'd already bequeathed to that French museum which he started himself . |
| 30 | The judge said he 'd already been punished a thousand times . |