Example sentences of "he [vb past] [vb pp] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He went to where he 'd seen him by the fence and looked down towards the woodpile . |
| 2 | He asked the old man if he knew Miss Lavant , if he 'd seen her at the fete , in clothes with buttercups on them . |
| 3 | She stared at him and , as her eyes met his , once again , like the moment he 'd seen her in the pool , she seemed unable to look away . |
| 4 | He recognised Kurz and Hinterstoisser , he 'd seen them at the hotel ; strikingly handsome fellows , especially Kurz , an officer of the Wehrmacht , blue-eyed , blond-haired . |
| 5 | He said he 'd heard it on the radio this mornin' . |
| 6 | His daughter Diane Perry said she was rung by her husband from work after he 'd heard it on the radio . |
| 7 | Juliet wondered if he 'd re-stocked it for the occasion . |
| 8 | The wedding-dress was in the faded green trunk , just as he 'd imagined it in the night . |
| 9 | He 'd mutilated her to the point of death but — being a Buddhist — he had n't killed her . |
| 10 | He 'd threatened her with the direst reprisals if she dared to leave their suite , not guessing that wild horses would n't drag her away until she 'd cleared the whole matter up . |
| 11 | Once they 'd had a conversation on two levels , from street to first-floor window ; it had been in April ; on the second occasion he 'd visited her in the afternoon , for a walk along the canal . |
| 12 | He 'd met her on the beach walking with a dog , a wire-haired terrier called Dolly which had come sniffing up to him . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 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 | Lying there in his bed , she was suddenly beset by wild , crazy images of lying there in his arms , and , even as she tried to block them out , her body grew warm with the memory of the moment when he 'd kissed her in the make-up room . |
| 16 | Once he 'd introduced me to the Princess , he never said another word . ’ |
| 17 | He was confident he 'd brought her to the stage where he could lay her . |
| 18 | They were some of the best he 'd ever taken , he said , but it was difficult to tell since he 'd dropped them in the water when he was changing film . |
| 19 | He 'd added nothing since the night James came . |
| 20 | When he 'd left her at the entrance to Newcastle Place the day Pa died she 'd ached with disappointment that she might never see him again . |
| 21 | He 'd left her at the inn without so much as a word , and here he was , calmly indulging his hobby while she 'd had to trek after him . |
| 22 | So somebody had to tell him he 'd left them at the |
| 23 | He 'd left them in the refrigerator factory … ? |
| 24 | He 'd left them in the Courtesy Cleaners : they 'd be ready in time for Easter Saturday . |
| 25 | Well apparently it had gone to Andrew , and , Andrew had cos Andrew is n't in the office all the time , and he 'd left it in the office , and I think they faxed it by th Andrew was gon na talk to somebody about it , but of course , by the time he 'd got there , it 'd already been done and this had happened so I 'm gon na ring erm Job Centre when I get home . |
| 26 | He clambered up and intercepted her at the kitchen door , enfolding her and drawing her in to his body so that his warmth flowed through to her , just as he had that day when he 'd found her on the beach , lost and afraid ; like him , a victim of the past . |
| 27 | ‘ To a certain extent you 'll have free rein , ’ he 'd told her over the telephone . |
| 28 | He 'd bought it in the Bazaar from an Indian trader who told him it would make the muscle grow . |
| 29 | The director said ‘ Action ’ , the sound recordist said ‘ Running ’ , the assistant cameraman said ‘ One forty-five take one ’ , and I put the first question — how did he think the war would have gone if he 'd started it with the 300 U-boats he 'd asked for in 1938 ? |
| 30 | He could n't help wondering if he 'd interrupted him in the act of copulation . |