Example sentences of "[noun] he 'd [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the sand you see the iron although it broke it more but this plough he 'd kept the thing fairly together . |
| 2 | Then at the last moment he 'd pressed the small jeweller 's box into her hand . |
| 3 | He took office on 2 January 1990 and within three weeks he 'd demanded the right to approve the boards ' choices for school superintendents , a notion which later fell foul of the courts . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | A crash investigator told the court he 'd calculated the speed using a reconstruction and tyre marks left on the road . |
| 6 | He slid down the stairway in one easy jump and hopped from the quay to the cruiser 's deck , and within a minute he 'd located the power switches and was down below , checking through the fittings . |
| 7 | Henry Yaxlee said that on Friday night he 'd done the accounts till quite late , made a round of the stables about eleven-thirty and gone to bed soon after . |
| 8 | " Fifteen p , " the boy said , explaining that that was the amount outstanding since the night he 'd cleaned the oven and left the tapioca saucepan to steep . |
| 9 | He 'd been down to the coke-cellar beneath the church , where the stage was stored , and with the assistance of Mr Peniket he 'd tried the curtains for size . |
| 10 | This morning he 'd thought the sky was just a blue thing with clouds . |
| 11 | After riding across a glacier at 20,000 ft , Martin told his parents by fax from Nepal he 'd broken the world record . |
| 12 | By the final whistle he 'd done the sensible thing and switched to Gazza . |
| 13 | The only stains left on his hands were a few stubborn traces of India ink , left from the drawings of Sara he 'd finished the previous day . |
| 14 | In the other he clutched a fifty-p piece , a coin he 'd discovered the evening before in Mrs Abigail 's purse , which carelessly she 'd left on top of the refrigerator . |
| 15 | Di , Di did n't have but the one but he come up , he said said he wants a spirit level and he wants a tape measure he 'd got the spirit level he said I ca n't find the tape measure he said , said it was on top of the bag . |
| 16 | With the first of the ovens he 'd gone the long way through to the Hall 's kitchens , taking in the sights as he went . |
| 17 | It was the first thing he 'd said the whole twenty miles . |
| 18 | The elation he 'd felt the day before at his own breathtaking adventure with the Moi girl now also seemed suddenly shameful to him , and he began to wonder if his exaggerated pride in the deed had n't been the direct cause of the danger in which he and his mother had suddenly found themselves on the plain . |
| 19 | Roirbak was physically shaking by the time he 'd broken the connection with Jahsaxa . |
| 20 | But by the time he 'd cleaned the floor to his satisfaction , the broom had worn right away , right down , to the handle . |
| 21 | He says that he was told his father was alive after the first crash … by the time he 'd had the second crash in the rescue boat he was dead . |
| 22 | With the authority of a man used to calling hounds to heel he 'd taken the arm from the dog , wrapped it in a towel and set it on the draining board . |