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 .
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