Example sentences of "he 'd [vb pp] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | I was really happy for him because now he 'd answered the question , ‘ Could he win a major ? ’ |
2 | He 'd seen no reason to reveal to Morgan and Evans that his helper was a woman . |
3 | He 'd seen a film about it and he could remember it very well . |
4 | He 'd seen a bit of that kind of thing going on in the last hospital he was in . |
5 | You 'd have thought he 'd seen a ghost ! — He hopped it , then . |
6 | He 'd seen a kid walking excitedly away from Coffin Corner with a fragment of the Bradshaw cradled in his arms . |
7 | He 'd seen a hundred funerals . |
8 | ‘ He told me he 'd seen a UFO himself in 1967 … ’ |
9 | On his first excursion he 'd seen a Mercedes parked outside so he 'd turned back , returned to his hotel room further down The Street . |
10 | ‘ Streuer was behind us and he thought he 'd seen a gap , but Steve cut across . |
11 | Loc stared hard at her for a moment then glanced out across the clearing again , remembering suddenly the expression he 'd seen a few minutes before on the Frenchman 's face . |
12 | Tonight , only a few minutes earlier , he 'd been following handwritten signs down a service passageway to the toilets when , for one brief half-second , he 'd seen a local councillor emerging through the doorway with the head of a pig on his shoulders . |
13 | Cardiff fumbled to where he 'd seen a light switch , began to reach for it … and then stopped . |
14 | Another neighbour told the inquest he 'd seen a car with two occupants drive away from the farm just before the barn caught fire . |
15 | Perkin knew it was I who had remembered that the floorboards should have floated , and on Monday he 'd seen the plank on the dining-room table and heard Doone and me talking in close private consultation . |
16 | He should have made a point of looking at the evening coverage before doing his own piece ; but he 'd seen the people they 'd sent to the press conference at the hospital , dismissed them as unlikely to do a decent job on it , and promptly forgotten them . |
17 | No , not some fanatical carp angler frightened of someone looking in his bait box , but carp that mouthed a bait and spat it out before the angler could strike — if he 'd seen the bite , that is . |
18 | He had a microphone in his hand and his eyes were set way back in his head , as if he 'd seen the Lord once too often . |
19 | ‘ He said he 'd seen the film once an' did n't want to see it agen . ’ |
20 | ‘ And Doyle never referred to the fact that he 'd seen the Asian girl near to Charlie 's ? ’ |
21 | He 'd seen the change that had come over Chantal since the news that Philippe was still alive . |
22 | I did n't think he 'd seen the lad on the floor . |
23 | He 'd seen the walls of reason built against it , brick by brick . |
24 | He 'd seen the face of Hapexamendios Himself , and half-crazed by the sight had been unable to resist the summons , and the binding , when it came . |
25 | ‘ Well , maybe he 'd seen the error of his ways , ’ I said lamely . |
26 | He 'd seen the movie . |
27 | They wanted to surprise him by jumping out and saying ‘ Happy birthday ! ’ after he 'd seen the presents . |
28 | He 'd seen the stuff that was pitched at them through advertising . |
29 | It was some kind of a medical thing ; he 'd seen the bracelets before , and this was just another variation . |
30 | It was on the pier at Stranraer that he 'd seen the man first , in the shed where they searched the cars . |