Example sentences of "he 'd [vb pp] a lot " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd lost a lot of relatives in the war . ’ |
| 2 | He 'd lost a lot more , Ruth noted . |
| 3 | Now I knew of no better , and Alan should 've known better because he 'd done a lot more removals than I had and he said Oh you 're alright Neal , do n't worry . |
| 4 | I 'm sure he was , but the last few years when I knew him he 'd gotten a lot of respect from people and he was n't having to struggle any more , and I think he knew the people loved him and he liked that . |
| 5 | He 'd made a lot of money out of hardware , sold out a chain of stores that covered three states and retired . |
| 6 | He 'd spent a lot of time just wandering in the hills . |
| 7 | After that he 'd spent a lot of time with Jekub , poking around , finding out about it . |
| 8 | The Hoflin affair had n't worked out quite the way he 'd planned either , although he 'd spent a lot of time and money on the little thing . |
| 9 | My mother 's been up there and she did n't come back for two hours and she came back we kept well he 'd sold a lot of meat in the meantime . |
| 10 | He 'd shifted a lot of linen , some bags of which weighed in like a circus fat lady . |
| 11 | Ed told me he 'd had a lot of bitter arguments about this plan with Hauser . ’ |
| 12 | Oh , he 'd had a lot of silly nonsense to put up with , but that was only on the surface , he knew that really , and now that the children were off their hands they could be together more and she 'd be less hasty . |
| 13 | Of course he 'd had a lot on his mind . |
| 14 | He 'd assembled a lot of evidence about unethical behaviour . |
| 15 | Well when when we were there before he 'd got a lot there ! |