Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] he 'd [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The management rep told me he 'd even heard whispers of sympathetic action among the statistical clerks . |
| 2 | So I told him he 'd better go , because by this time I was bubbling a bit and I wanted to kill the man : I was n't really prepared to lose any time over hitting a court welfare officer . |
| 3 | I told him he 'd better tell his friends , or his girlfriends , that when they call at our house if they do n't give names , they 're not talking to him ! |
| 4 | If he 'd only told them he 'd just had a baby , things might have been different . |
| 5 | " I wonder what he would have said , Chuck , if I 'd told him he 'd just served a drink to someone who 's probably going to be much more important one day than a run-of-the-mill Democratic senator from Virginia ? " |
| 6 | As her body confirmed what he 'd already guessed she had neither the will nor wit to attempt to deny it any more . |
| 7 | When I met him he 'd just done his shopping for two weeks . |
| 8 | So I could n't I could n't charge him twenty cos he 'd only charged me he 'd only charged me twenty so I had to sell him back to him for a tenner you know . |
| 9 | It was for him that now she was entertaining this arrow-straight , dark-eyed young scoundrel who would be likely to repay her by seducing her daughter , she thought , if she still had one , and who would probably forget everything he 'd ever heard about hunger in St Jude 's , or in County Kildare for that matter , should he ever find himself well-fed in Westminster . |
| 10 | He stopped a little way away , and so did I. He 'd obviously got some plan . |
| 11 | for realising what he 'd never seen — the concept of forever , eternal love , |
| 12 | He only mentioned his wife to tell me he 'd just bought her something new to wear and he tried to give me the impression his brother-in-law was something of a poor fish because he could n't make ends meet . ’ |
| 13 | Then realizing what he 'd just heard , Dowd drew a long , slow breath . |