Example sentences of "[noun] he 'd [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've proved that , yes — ’ in the words he 'd used that very morning ‘ — even Bluebeard has to take time off . |
| 2 | The seventy five year old bachelor had finally got his girl at the second time of asking years He 'd waited half a century for this kiss with his new bride Rose , and he still could n't believe his luck . |
| 3 | He flattered himself that he was in some small part responsible for such blissful bizarrities , given that over the years he 'd brought all manner of influences through from the Succulent Rock . |
| 4 | Jeremy Healy 's music was loud and passionate , and designer/stylist Judy Blame agreed that it was the only decent stuff he 'd heard all week , adding that French Djs are the worst on the planet and that there is virtually no point in clubbing in Paris until the situation is remedied . |
| 5 | The same uneasy feeling he 'd experienced that morning returned , and he realized now why it came : of all the people of Dynmouth this boy in his adolescence was the single exception . |
| 6 | So he went back up onto the main road and very little further on , in fact , he in fact found a village and spent the night at the hostelry and he said to the man in the hostelry you know , he that he 'd been lost and that a a little bit back on the road he 'd seen this big house all alight and he had erm , you know , gone in the drive and tried to get get a room there but could n't make anybody hear and the erm the inn keeper said , no he said er you would n't make anyone hear there , he said and if you go back there tomorrow the house wo n't be there ! |
| 7 | It was the first time in ages he 'd demonstrated any kind of protectiveness towards her and she could n't help warming to that . |
| 8 | Back on India-May 's farm he 'd hung that picture in his head . |
| 9 | Ever since he had been at high school he 'd found some enjoyment and relief by getting back at them in ways they obviously did n't expect . |
| 10 | Sometimes they 'd fuck right away , or sometimes they 'd wait till they were about to leave , but they 'd always do it on the sheet , the same sheet he 'd brought that first time , as if , without it , some spell might be broken and everything would fall apart . |
| 11 | No doubt he 'd enjoyed this association with young men , trousers and jackets endlessly tried on in curtained booths . |
| 12 | Ninety five year old William Wyatt from Didcot , in Oxfordshire remembered killings he 'd seen all those years ago . |
| 13 | He was still wearing the same clothes he 'd worn that afternoon , and Juliet wondered if he had been out that evening , and who with . |
| 14 | Then he remembered the red lozenges he 'd sucked all the way in the car . |
| 15 | It was n't the first time he 'd had this nightmare ; it was happening more often nowadays . |
| 16 | And B-tested Peter Davidson , a former police inspector , said later : ‘ I thought at the time he 'd had more to drink than me . |