Example sentences of "[adv] he 'd [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | or and apparently he 'd lost a strip . |
| 2 | When they 'd moved in he 'd made a point of telling just about everybody where it was and how much it was costing — wincing a little at the same time , as if he were telling the story against himself and his own folly — but it had become a sterile kind of heaven , and he sat around in it like some forgotten angel . |
| 3 | Except somehow he 'd made a mistake , picked the wrong woman . |
| 4 | ‘ I could see something was there ; Bernard had the persistence to obtain the site , he was doing something positive — already he 'd got a steel frame constructed for a building where the freight was formerly loaded — he was practical and a great motivator at the same time . ’ |
| 5 | Although once he 'd had a wife of his own . |
| 6 | I mean even today he 'd made a mistake on that thing and you spotted it where I would n't have done . |
| 7 | My mother 's been up there and she did n't come back for two hours and she came back we kept well he 'd sold a lot of meat in the meantime . |
| 8 | This MacGregor he was to be a minister , and he was a well educated man but unfortunately he 'd made a mistake when he preached his sermon so he gave it up . |
| 9 | Never one to wallow in self-pity , he 'd started by mugging a couple of Indian kids in bright shirts behind the bus station and then he 'd followed a Yuppie type from his bank 's Cashcard machine to the stairway of a multi-storey car park , where they 'd had some dealings involving a Rolex and all the wad in the Yuppie 's wallet . |
| 10 | He knew then he 'd got a chance of winning . |
| 11 | He 'd daubed a rock with paint and used the tell-tale splashes to correct a slight right-hand drift , and then he 'd taken a rasp to the elaborate Monte Carlo grip , reshaping the stock to approximate to the military form on which he 'd been trained and binding it with tape when it was as he wanted . |
| 12 | Maybe he 'd joined a ship , he 'd done his national service in the navy . |
| 13 | Maybe he 'd taken a course in French film as a way of learning how to pick up girls . |
| 14 | Cardiff fumbled to where he 'd seen a light switch , began to reach for it … and then stopped . |
| 15 | Tremayne made more than his usual fuss over Fiona , sensing some sort of turmoil , telling her comfortably that Mackie had just come back from Ascot races where he 'd sent a runner for the apprentice race which had proved a total waste of time . |