Example sentences of "he 'd [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd lived fifty years too long . |
| 2 | Another witness , taxi driver David Harvey described how he 'd seen two cars flashing by , about three feet apart , in the opposite direction . |
| 3 | He 'd seen many changes in the penal system as a whole and Whitely in particular during his days as Governor at the prison . |
| 4 | He 'd seen similar paths near Farnborough . |
| 5 | For that matter , he 'd seen that loft being put together , knew it almost as well as that self-opinionated young architect had . |
| 6 | Not exactly the same as each other ; he 'd seen different types , but they were all the same types . |
| 7 | I guess he 'd seen American officers on TV the whole time during the Viet Nam war . |
| 8 | He 'd seen human parents intervene in conflicts between pa er , between er offspring . |
| 9 | He 'd seen enough trees dose to the boundary to know he could use them to scale up , and his coat would protect him against the barbed wire . |
| 10 | And this astonished him , because he 'd seen this kind of thing at home . |
| 11 | It was hard to believe that a few moments earlier he 'd aroused that snake-pit of desire inside her . |
| 12 | He was n't sure he 'd heard that right . |
| 13 | Jeremy Healy 's music was loud and passionate , and designer/stylist Judy Blame agreed that it was the only decent stuff he 'd heard all week , adding that French Djs are the worst on the planet and that there is virtually no point in clubbing in Paris until the situation is remedied . |
| 14 | He 'd heard weird stories of Steven Morrissey 's unconventional approach to life . |
| 15 | Back on India-May 's farm he 'd hung that picture in his head . |
| 16 | Now he 'd lost that sense of fitting the rubrics which his kin and his province drew up for the proper conduct of a man like himself . |
| 17 | ' … so that the end of the week he found he 'd lost two stone . |
| 18 | He looked as though he 'd lost twenty years , as though a ten-ton weight had been lifted from his shoulders . |
| 19 | He 'd strangled two children with his bare hands , then called the police to give himself up . |
| 20 | He 'd raced another car reaching speeds of up to 80 miles an hour before losing control and ploughing into a roadside bench where the youngsters gathered . |
| 21 | They were brilliant times to live in he then me uncle Ed come on leave , from France , yeah I had a look at his rifle he used to bring all his equipment cos they did n't know if the units had moved when they got back and if they used to be lucky enough to get a leave , they used to have to bring all their equipment with them you see and he used to bring his rifle , everything on leave , and I , I always remember asking him why he had n't , if he 'd killed any Germans , why he had n't got any notches on his rifle he erm |
| 22 | And he always tells me , he said that er he had no sleep during the night he he thought he 'd killed this man , you see , he says , I seen him drop , and I seen blood . |
| 23 | He had lied to Evelyn when he 'd denied any idea of what the ransackers were looking for . |
| 24 | He would of course require a pastoral call even if he did not — and his car did not bode well — look like the kind of man Peter might hope for , as a breath of fresh air on the PCC ; as a possible churchwarden in place of old Sir Francis Mayhew who said he 'd done fifteen years which was more than enough ; or even as a parishioner willing to raise the £25,000 that the diocesan architect had said would have to be spent on Loxford church roof within the next three years . |
| 25 | He 'd done good work on the drama pilot , and it was galling to hear this woman refer to it so dismissively . |
| 26 | Looping the loop at a Manchester airshow as he 'd done many times before in the vintage Spitfire … pilot David Moore from Horsley near Stroud misjudged the manoeuvere . |
| 27 | And er anyway , when I got in from work last night , he 'd done carrots , sprouts , cabbage , mashed potatoes , and he 'd done this pie . |
| 28 | I do n't think the I do n't think the D T I would have issued a investment management certificate to Robert Maxwell you know because he 'd done naughty things in the past , so he just would n't have got the certificate . |
| 29 | It was the first time in ages he 'd demonstrated any kind of protectiveness towards her and she could n't help warming to that . |
| 30 | He 'd sailed these waters for six months and knew every reef and coral head shallow enough to be a threat . |