Example sentences of "he 'd only " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd only got to be told by Charlie that he 'd be leaving the High Street by the bridge and walking along the local river . ’ |
| 2 | He 'd only said that to get him out of Mrs Wright 's house . |
| 3 | He 'd only made two twists when he stopped , listening . |
| 4 | He remembered his sporadic visits back to Taler 's Bump , the shy little girl who 'd been virtually a stranger to him , his awkward attempts at being a family man when all the time he 'd only been yearning to get back to work . |
| 5 | There was a momentary hesitation before he explained that he 'd only just got to the room , he 'd felt too disturbed by the shamanistic experience to sleep and had sat in the hospitality suite reading . |
| 6 | He 'd only just got right from flu . |
| 7 | I found out he 'd fired his caddie John Moorhouse and then he 'd tried a German lad , but he 'd only lasted the practice round ! |
| 8 | If he 'd only told them he 'd just had a baby , things might have been different . |
| 9 | H. P. If your face did n't fit , they could get rid of you within twelve months.There was this bobby , a big chap over six feet , very dour , from the Hebrides — he 'd only seen sheep . |
| 10 | He looked into Gorelli 's face , the face he 'd never seen , the face he 'd only heard , and so many years ago . |
| 11 | ‘ Do n't ever , ’ and Donald took another breath , through his mouth this time , as if he 'd only surfaced for a moment , ‘ do n't EVER eat my beans again . ’ |
| 12 | His life was a million miles away from ours , his past revered , his future assured , the son of a doctor and the father of one , and when it came to ‘ caring ’ he 'd only touched the surface . |
| 13 | He could n't understand this exuberant friendliness in a boy he 'd only had a glimpse of twice . |
| 14 | He 'd only met Bogie and I — over in the pub , the Dirty Duck , for about half an hour when he insisted on taking me round to Shakespeare 's birthplace . |
| 15 | From a three-hour flight , at the outside , when he 'd only flown from London to Helsinki on the last lap ? |
| 16 | But he 'd only been inside the place a few minutes . |
| 17 | Of course he 'd always been enchanted , but , before , it had been too deep in his mind to be fully felt ; he 'd only known there was something that kept him empty inside , stopped him from being a proper person . |
| 18 | He 'd only agreed to go because Lily told him it was a musical and had walked out the moment Bernadette started sinking to her knees in the fields . |
| 19 | He 'd been so disinterested in her progress during six years of primary school that he 'd only ever visited the school once . |
| 20 | One week he he broke the record , he pulled f He brought brought forty tubs down and then the following week he got killed and he 'd only got seven on . |
| 21 | And er I remember one one chap he were a bit scared , very much so , and oh dear dear dear , he 'd only been within other bloke , a chap A chap from , what was his name now ? |
| 22 | And er he 'd only got to sort of look at you and er that was it . |
| 23 | I remembered Sopworth saying how the cat had no sense of territory , how he 'd only just caught it the first time it escaped , racing north along the A2 . |
| 24 | It was a moment before Carson was able to place the researcher 's voice — after all , he 'd only heard it once before but he said , ‘ Yes , I 'm alone . |
| 25 | He 'd only just retired , and they 'd built a beautiful bungalow . ’ |
| 26 | And er he went round and I do n't know I never heard him playing the fiddle , but they said he was very good at fiddling , but he was a grand one for old stories , , and er he was just doing farms here and there so Then eventually he turned so old he 'd only one dog and then er he died down at the D At a place called the Doonie And this man D Duncan , he had just an er one of the er I think one of the tramps from Blair Gowrie was working to him and he came up and told my father and my father went down to see about him , you see him being in the parish council . |
| 27 | If you made it and laid down them the the man that was doing it , he 'd only to lift that and give it a twine and on to the next . |
| 28 | He 'd only got pages 1 to 8 , and the corresponding ones at the back . |
| 29 | Ten minutes later , he was standing as a customer in another shop , the kind of shop that he 'd only previously ever visited in a raid . |
| 30 | He 'd only a vague notion of what was going to happen after this . |