Example sentences of "he 'd [vb pp] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once they 'd come out of the house , he 'd shaken himself free of the women and had now adopted a surly silence . |
| 2 | He 'd schooled himself to ruthlessness , single-mindedly forcing his way through the jungle , hacking at anything in his path . |
| 3 | He 'd known he was going to be tested , and he 'd prepared himself . |
| 4 | And course he 'd frightened himself and er I counted up to about eight , nine and ten I said to him , Look when you go inside that bloody gate now I said go straight into the office sit down and think for a minute where the hell are we all going to in this carry on ? |
| 5 | Police initially thought he 'd killed himself . |
| 6 | shared the news : he 'd shot himself . |
| 7 | The big dog used the new trick for getting out he 'd taught himself . |
| 8 | He 'd locked himself in their room and drunk himself insensible . |
| 9 | Maxim did n't mind , although he had a vague sense Apgood was seeing something he 'd missed himself . |
| 10 | In fact , Joshua 's retirement to the safety of his estate had freed Dowd to wander until the old man 's demise , when he was drawn back to offer his services to Joshua 's son Nathaniel , only revealing his true nature once he 'd made himself indispensable , for fear he was trapped between his bounden duty and the zeal of a Christian . |
| 11 | Since her mother 's death he 'd made himself practically indispensable . |
| 12 | But he 'd trained himself in the craft of grief with the same commitment to feigning humanity as he had learning to shiver ; his tutor , the Bard ; Lear his favourite lesson . |
| 13 | I thought he 'd acquitted himself well before getting crocked ? |
| 14 | Gregson hung up and sat back on the bed , cradling a glass of whisky in his hand which he 'd poured himself from the room 's mini-bar . |
| 15 | But she noticed he did n't put the map away until he 'd located himself precisely . |
| 16 | In fact , she thought as she splashed cold water on to her hot face , she had n't seen him all morning — perhaps he 'd taken himself off for a walk . |
| 17 | First , he 'd caught himself being scrutinised through binoculars , and then heard himself being discussed with such ribald curiosity by the staff ! |
| 18 | Not because he 'd been provoked or excited ; on the contrary , it had happened because he 'd allowed himself to relax , to lessen his control and to become open and vulnerable . |
| 19 | Werewolf filled me in on his blitzkreig across the Exhilarator course and had to admit that he 'd enjoyed himself . |
| 20 | If Guy had only exchanged contracts last week , he 'd organised himself with impressive speed . |
| 21 | There was one department , however , that he 'd convinced himself he was not so good in : putting . |
| 22 | ‘ Marius wrote a letter to his son last November — this is a copy of it — complaining in humble terms about how he 'd left himself short by the gift and not taken inflation into account , and would Nigel let him have a small income from various shares and properties ? |
| 23 | Oh yes , he 'd overstretched himself , all right . |
| 24 | He 'd forced himself to do this , sneak down here , humiliate himself because he had to see her now , this evening . |
| 25 | He 'd helped himself to Miss Lodsworth 's cider apples . ’ |
| 26 | He 'd had himself painted and sculptured again and again , and he 'd been there for all the world to see . |
| 27 | There had even been times when he 'd found himself imagining her with no clothes on at all — the way he had once seen Peggy Podmore — and felt the same keen desire well up in him . |
| 28 | And then , purely on impulse , Cardiff heard himself ask a crazy question , but a question that was no crazier than the situation he 'd found himself in of late , with people who vanished into and out of walls , the hideous death of four people , three of them his own men and a stalking monstrosity from the pages of a horror comic out there somewhere in the night … not to mention cars that just fell out of the sky . |
| 29 | He must have ordered them by telephone when he 'd found himself unable to contact her direct . |
| 30 | Earlier that very week , in fact , as he 'd filled up the Jaguar with Gulf-inflated gasoline , he 'd found himself surveying the display of the semi-pornographic magazines arranged along the highest shelf above the dailies ; and re-acquainted himself with such reasonably familiar titles as Men Only , Escort , Knave , Video XXXX , and so many others , each of them enticing the susceptible motorist with its cover of some provocatively posed woman , vast-breasted and voluptuous . |