Example sentences of "he 'd [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He thought of the last time he 'd seen Dad . |
| 2 | and how he 'd seen prison and er they 'd said they had n't any prisons but he found one and erm hospitals and all that sort of thing and at the end of the week 's visit erm one of the very high ups , whom he named and I 've forgotten the name of him , I think I 'll just use that , thank you erm sent for h he , he was brought before him as it were and the man said to him are there any questions er at the end of your week that you want to ask and he said well perhaps there is one he said erm Winston Churchill was here erm a month or two , a few months ago |
| 3 | Craddock had told him that he 'd seen Rose visiting Marshall at his cottage . |
| 4 | a gift for the babe he 'd heard cry . |
| 5 | He 'd taking part in white water rafting like this , in a supervised trip with his wife and friends . |
| 6 | Twice he 'd lost sight of them and been obliged to put on speed or else run the risk of failing to see them as they took some minor road or turn-off . |
| 7 | Even after he 'd lost sight of her , Ellwood retained the image of power . |
| 8 | But he 'd lost sight of the figure . |
| 9 | His line was that he 'd lost contact with Malcolm because he could only stand to be with him for so long at a stretch . |
| 10 | Chris had already been given a severe ticking-off when he 'd admitted to the box-office that he 'd lost count of the number of tickets and cheques he 'd stuffed into all his suit pockets . |
| 11 | A man who thought he 'd lost pension payments worth thirty-eight thousand pounds with the crash of the Maxwell empire is celebrating after hearing he WILL be paid . |
| 12 | He 'd lost weight , his eyes were staring and red as if they 'd been rolled in grit , and his clothes hung on him like a scarecrow 's ; it was almost as if , in the course of the past few weeks , he 'd been drained of the zest and the energy and the sense of confidence that she 'd steadily been picking up . |
| 13 | Well he said , we did n't think he 'd lost weight , that 'd |
| 14 | Now he 'd lost track of what he 'd been thinking of completely . |
| 15 | How badly he 'd treated Mum , he told us . |
| 16 | Naturally , he would say , he had disappeared from the chateau ; he was scared they 'd pin the crime on him because he 'd done stir — time . |
| 17 | But I got talking to one of them and he told me he 'd just come out of prison where he 'd done time for soliciting . |
| 18 | I mean , I can remember seeing an interview with er , John Geilgud and he 'd he 'd done Hamlet many years ago and er but he said he 'd it was in a totally different way you know , different |
| 19 | Something of a scholar , and Leistritz said he 'd done farm work before . |
| 20 | Perhaps he 'd risked time to practise with a few shots before I got there . |
| 21 | After he 'd gone Dad said he would consider what Mr Vulcan had said but I knew already what I wanted and I knew Dad would n't object . |
| 22 | What Harry Lime missed out on , though , was the fact that if he 'd gone Club 18–30 instead of Austrian Airlines , and taken a couple of friends in tow who were paying the full price , he could have copped for a massive sixty sovs off his bill , got a suntan into the bargain , and avoided coming to a very nasty end in the sewers . |
| 23 | After a rather brutal schooling in Glasgow , he 'd moved south with his , by now , widowed mother . |
| 24 | Tony thought the man was coming back for him because he 'd squirted water at him so he hid , but the man waved to Denise and she waved back . |
| 25 | He 'd swopped lunchtime 's grey suit for soft cream twill trousers , beautifully cut and pleated at the waistband , with a dark olive silk shirt . |
| 26 | There were a few places where he 'd disturbed dust , and he blew on them hard to blur the marks and redistribute the deposit . |
| 27 | He 'd suffered head injuries and had been stabbed in the neck . |
| 28 | Goreng had been worried it might be a set-up — paranoia and distrust were that army 's staple — and he 'd assured Martinho that he 'd be the first to go if that was the case . |
| 29 | Once he 'd achieved erection the trick was to keep it up without coming but without losing rigidity . |
| 30 | If it was n't found , then he 'd escaped justice . ’ |