Example sentences of "[pron] he 'd [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With annoying irrelevance it occurred to Quentin that the name of the film on the television screen was Three Smart Girls , which he 'd seen about thirty-five years ago , when he was a child himself . |
| 2 | He had entered the lounge at twenty past two and had ordered a sandwich and a large measure of whisky , which he 'd consumed quickly . |
| 3 | The day had been warm , and since it was n't , he decided , an occasion for dressing , he settled for a light linen suit which he 'd worn rather a lot ten years ago in New Zealand . |
| 4 | He explained the theory of Mastery of Learning , about which he 'd spoken before . |
| 5 | I thought back to something he 'd said earlier . |
| 6 | Anger was n't something he 'd felt even a flicker of . |
| 7 | Then , in the tiniest second like the one he 'd blown up in , he turned his flaming face away again . |
| 8 | The jewel was almost in his grasp ; almost about to be displayed and photographed and written up in all the right journals : a jewel he himself had traced , and one he 'd worked so hard to get donated to the Ashmolean . |
| 9 | That betraying look in her eyes in the cloakroom just now must have told him he 'd won again . |
| 10 | The barman even told him he 'd had enough — something they rarely do unless they think a client 's about to throw up over the upholstery or start taking his clothes off . |
| 11 | He told me he 'd said much the same to you . ’ |
| 12 | Gillian told me he 'd given up smoking . |
| 13 | Blagg told me he 'd thrown away the revolver that woman gave him . |
| 14 | ‘ I would n't have known about it at all , except that Mum sent me a little note to tell me he 'd passed away — in his sleep , she said . |
| 15 | Clare told me he 'd taken rather a lot of convincing — once he 'd determined to do the slightly naff champagne-pyramid stunt in the first place — not to try doing it with proper champagne flutes but to use the perry glasses like everybody else did ; too tall , too unstable otherwise . |
| 16 | A woman , thought Theodora , whom he 'd met once . |
| 17 | I think somebody brought that in from er he he 'd gone along when I was up here a few weeks back . |
| 18 | And er I suppose he he 'd gone there when he was about thirteen fourteen and er he came from a family from Where was it . |
| 19 | And er but this was a very determined man , everybody knew that , one of these , although he he 'd got probably er the the best factory in in the city . |
| 20 | And he he 'd got up to it and he gone good morning Trev about two inches away from it . |
| 21 | If he 'd been able to keep from gloating , she 'd have ended up in his bed , which was what he 'd intended right from the beginning . |
| 22 | He was impressed by what he 'd heard so far , but how was all this going to come about ? |
| 23 | I saw the lie and line , and knowing what he 'd done already , I expected him to chip in . |
| 24 | ‘ Not , of course , that I realised what he 'd done then . |
| 25 | And , judging from what he 'd said today about — about eyes and lips , she had n't managed to conceal those needs . |
| 26 | about school er further education on , on the magazine and I felt that perhaps , bearing in mind what he 'd said earlier about I have n't had any contact with you for thirteen years , that might have been something that you could 've you know reinforced a bit well we 've now got financial advisers , the other thing or one of the other things we 're doing is , is this contact magazine which we 're sending out to policy holders and it , you know , it helps to bridge the gap as it were . |
| 27 | David Bailey , the photographer whose lens pinned the swinging sixties forever to the wall , noted in 1985 that the mini-skirt was directly attributable to Jean Shrimpton 's legs , more of which he exposed with each successive photo session despite Vogue 's initial efforts to airbrush in what he 'd hiked up . |
| 28 | ‘ I 've heard about this sort of thing before , ’ he said , as if realizing what he 'd stumbled on , or at least what he thought he 'd stumbled on . |
| 29 | He also knew this was not the moment to tell her what he 'd learnt today . |
| 30 | He was n't sure what he 'd found out or how to phrase it . |