Example sentences of "[noun sg] he 'd [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The answer was even more unsettling — that this was the department he 'd worked in . |
| 2 | And then recited the bits of gossip he 'd picked up . |
| 3 | Whatever the actual reasons for this , in his own mind he 'd singled out the fact that she must have got married . |
| 4 | They 'd taken the motorised dinghy across to explore the fairy-tale clarity of the water in the natural sea caves of the Blue Grotto , then on Roman 's orders had spurned the small cove he 'd mentioned as too crowded , and returned to take the yacht further out to sea , choosing a peaceful place to drop anchor and eat the picnic he 'd stowed away as a surprise … |
| 5 | But there 's a couple of guys in another division over there that they were quite keen on er aircraft and they spent weeks building these bloody things and then er , and experienced flyer he 'd taken over to the other , other side of the estate when he had a bit of runway over there |
| 6 | Yet though she knew she 'd been a fool and totally lacking in self-control , still tangled in the sensual web he 'd spun so effortlessly , she could n't regret it . |
| 7 | In those few minutes she 'd simply been reacting to the mood he 'd created so skilfully . |
| 8 | As soon as he 'd gone she seized the crutch he 'd brought up , and , hobbling into the bathroom , closed the door with a bang . |
| 9 | The boy 's eyes had met his own , and for a moment Pavel had been afraid ; but the boy had n't said anything , and after a moment he 'd looked away . |
| 10 | Knocks it in towards Speedy and got the final ball wrong but a shame he 'd done so well . |
| 11 | Reynolds will also serve another 2 years in custody for an unrelated street robbery he 'd carried out 2 days before the crash . |
| 12 | Martin Jackson sat among the people waiting by the arrivals gate and read a journal he 'd picked up at the news-stand . |
| 13 | Philip remembered the room he 'd seen yesterday , empty and dead , shaped like a shoe-box . |
| 14 | Harper told the court he 'd gone out with both Becky and Emma in the 6 months he knew them . |
| 15 | Twenty year old Ken Hughes from Barford Saint Michael near Banbury told the court he 'd picked up his ex-girlfriend 's Pekinese Rosie … but the dog had made a mess all down his clothes . |
| 16 | He had shed the formal suit he 'd worn previously and was dressed today in black trousers and leather jacket over a black silk shirt , sombre colours that only served to emphasise the olive cast of his skin , the night-darkness of his hair and eyes . |
| 17 | He held out the handful of nails and stuff he 'd taken out of his Dad 's shed . |
| 18 | He thought of the grain he 'd pinched yesterday , spilt and lost . |
| 19 | And in his own character he 'd found out what he wanted to know . |
| 20 | A cluster of keys which they 'd never found doors to fit ; instruction documents for a blender he 'd burned out making midnight margaritas ; a plastic bottle of massage oil . |
| 21 | For the briefest and most uncomfortable moment , he was made to think of the father he 'd left behind in the North of England , a man just widowed and with a stepson whom he disliked intensely . |
| 22 | As he did so , still lying there with his legs up on the chair he 'd fallen over , he started to over-balance to one side , towards Fergus . |
| 23 | For a start he 'd given up being a hippie , which must have been a relief to the Fish , not only professionally but because it meant the Fish could play Charlie soul records — Otis Redding and all — the only music he liked . |
| 24 | Then he remembered a woman he 'd met once on a train , she was singing hymns to the window , he 'd been embarrassed at first , half her fringe was missing as if someone had taken a bite out of it , only he knew she 'd done it because she caught him staring and laughed and said , ‘ I always cut it when I 'm loaded , ’ and he remembered something about a house , and because there was nothing left to cling to , because it was the only piece of wreckage left afloat , he remembered how to get there too , it was either remember or die . |
| 25 | Rebel was racing after another lamb he 'd steered away from the main flock . |
| 26 | What it boiled down to was : there was here , where he had friends and family , or there was London where he had a few friends and a lot of contacts , and it felt like things were happening , and where you could fill time with something no matter how mixed up and fraudulent you felt … or there was abroad , of course ; the rest of the world ; India ( to take the most extreme example he 'd found so far ) , where you felt like an alien , lumbering and self-conscious , materially far more rich and spiritually far more poor than the people who thronged the place , where just by that intensity of touching , that very sweating crowdedness , you felt more apart , more consigned to a different , echoing place inside yourself . |
| 27 | His memory was remarkable but it was often frustrating when an interesting story was interrupted while he talked about the family background of a man he 'd met once in Iowa in the early 1960s . |
| 28 | Archie was n't the first drunk man he 'd driven home in the early hours of the morning . |
| 29 | Some sixth sense he 'd learned not to ignore . |
| 30 | He fitted the drawer he 'd taken out back in . |