Example sentences of "he 'd [vb pp] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The animals he 'd seen had always been well looked after . |
| 2 | He 'd seen Caspar down at Mrs Wright 's , had n't he . |
| 3 | What he 'd seen done to Grant made Forster realise that whatever it was struck with demonic speed and savagery . |
| 4 | ‘ Although Steven said he 'd heard arguing , I never had so it came as a complete shock . ’ |
| 5 | He 'd applied to join the police in his final year at university ; it had been an unfashionable thing to do but he 'd given it a lot of careful thought . |
| 6 | The next time Seve played after his Open win he was at St Mellion and playing the worst he 'd played to shoot a 79 . |
| 7 | Despite her parents ' invitation to Harry to stay with them in London while he was back in England , he 'd written to say that he had already promised to go to Bertie Alcott 's home in Cadogan Square . |
| 8 | She says that he pushed past her and said he 'd lost somthing in her garden . |
| 9 | He 'd bent to kiss the girl , warmly , said a laughing farewell , and weaved his way across to her through the crowd , his eyes faintly amused but cool as he assessed her contortions with the unruly material . |
| 10 | If he 'd hoped to placate her by the teasing compliment then he achieved the opposite . |
| 11 | Davide was disappointed : he 'd hoped to sell the coin for a lira or so . |
| 12 | Just what he 'd hoped to avoid . |
| 13 | Chant 's sarcasm was n't lost on Estabrook ; nor could he resist the recognition that this was not a game he should have entered if he 'd hoped to stay lily-white . |
| 14 | Accused of breaking the arm of Mr Shami Hoad , a builder from Gloucester , in July last year , an injury that put Mr Hoad in hospital , he 'd denied causing grievous bodily harm . |
| 15 | He 'd studied acting with Stella Adler , a follower of Stanislavsky 's principles , and with the Actors ' Studio , bringing his ‘ method ’ acting to the New York stage as early as 1943 . |
| 16 | It had been Campion Price , her father , who , disappointed that his firstborn had not been the male he 'd intended naming after his own father , had insisted she bore the feminine version of that name — Georgina . |
| 17 | I wonder what he 'd intended doing with the cottage . ’ |
| 18 | He 'd arranged to meet her at in the West End , he told me , but had been at a loss for a suitable landmark as a meeting place . |
| 19 | Clare told me he 'd taken rather a lot of convincing — once he 'd determined to do the slightly naff champagne-pyramid stunt in the first place — not to try doing it with proper champagne flutes but to use the perry glasses like everybody else did ; too tall , too unstable otherwise . |
| 20 | He 'd decided to treat himself . |
| 21 | She had the cheek to say he ought to cancel meetings only because of ill-health or for work opportunities , not because he 'd decided to go out with someone else . |
| 22 | But imagine , if after we 'd persuaded him to say all that , we announced that he 'd decided to go back . |
| 23 | If he 'd decided to look in , and seen her fully dressed , the game would have been up . |
| 24 | In fact , given the bitterness the memory of Cherith still evoked , she wondered why he 'd decided to confide in her at all . |
| 25 | ‘ … until Dr Greene told her he 'd decided to deliver , then she perked up immediately and insisted on an epidural so that Bill could be there and she could see the baby straight away . ’ |
| 26 | Against the Director 's advice , he 'd decided to despatch Sylvia into occupied France to try and discover what had happened to them . |
| 27 | He 'd decided to tell Sanchez that something had come into the market , something both he and Kemp would want . |
| 28 | But he 'd risked losing everything else too . |
| 29 | ‘ He made out that he 'd gone to take a nostalgic look at it , and of course he never said he 'd tried to get in , or that he 'd been before … |
| 30 | ‘ He 'd gone to pot . |