Example sentences of "he 'd [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | In this , he was only doing what he 'd seen Jesus do . |
2 | He 'd seen Nancy and Frank embracing in the back of the car , so closely entwined that it had been impossible to guess what else they were doing . |
3 | And I heard Monks say that he 'd seen Oliver in the street , and that he knew at once Oliver was the child he was looking for , although I could n't hear why . |
4 | Because , when he 'd seen Olivier , just after 1945 , had n't he said there was a man after his own heart ? |
5 | He 'd seen Dean Street , and liked what he saw . |
6 | He thought of the last time he 'd seen Dad . |
7 | He 'd seen women in his boyhood with shawls over their heads and bare feet , with the same air of ancient breeding . |
8 | He 'd seen women give birth on their cabin floors and get up and cook their man a meal when he came in … |
9 | He 'd seen salamanders before , of course , but they had been small specimens . |
10 | He 'd walked round the engine sheds , he said , where he 'd looked long and lovingly at the old locomotives , and where he 'd seen schoolboys and middle-aged men carefully recording numbers and wheel-arrangements in their note-books . |
11 | He 'd seen patients in calipers but did n't know how to do it himself . |
12 | He 'd seen Barry on his BMX . |
13 | Lifted and dropped his shoulders a few times , he 'd seen people do it when they tried on clothes in stores . |
14 | He tried very hard not to cough like he 'd seen people cough in westerns when they tried whisky for the first time , and got away with just clearing his throat rather loudly ( he looked round at the curtains , afraid somebody might have heard ) . |
15 | 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 |
16 | When he 'd said he 'd seen Stephen at the funeral she 'd felt afraid of him for a moment . |
17 | ‘ Three times , ’ he 'd said ; he 'd seen Elise just three times , and then purely for business reasons . |
18 | Craddock had told him that he 'd seen Rose visiting Marshall at his cottage . |
19 | ‘ Seems reasonable , ’ said Dod , like he 'd seen Richard Widmark say it in a film once , really chill . |
20 | Timothy nodded to himself , thinking about the sailing ships of the Spanish Armada and the severe face of the German Führer , of which he 'd seen pictures . |
21 | Ken said — he came for Sunday lunch now , often with his stepdaughter but without his wife , who felt awkward in Ellen 's presence — that it reminded him of a kitten he 'd given Wendy on the day she gave birth to Apricot . |
22 | Stuart said he 'd given Oliver some money , which I thought was quite unnecessary , not that I said so . |
23 | Wellington always had a large appetite ; he 'd piled fruit simultaneously on to his plate with the meat and rice , instead of having it separately as a dessert . |
24 | He 'd heard stories about him in Calcutta and half expected something of the sort . |
25 | He 'd heard sounds he did n't like and had n't heard before . |
26 | He 'd heard loads of acceleration and loads of noise . |
27 | One man said he 'd heard Berners wanted to put a huge siren on the top . |
28 | Randy , going amazingly steady for him , had spent the fortnight screwing Trace Coley , who was as pretty as she was spoilt , because he 'd heard rumours that Kevin was thinking of including him in his team next year . |
29 | He 'd heard rumours that the military were planning to declare martial law . |
30 | But what er , I said , told Pete because I had another call when you were at lunch I think and erm he said he 'd heard rumours that we were looking for somebody . |