Example sentences of "he 'd [verb] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His mates had all scored and he inexplicably had n't , in spite of the money he 'd blown on all those lime-green cocktails for the bleached slag in the dress with all the red spangles . |
| 2 | The closest he came to exercise was to open one eye every so often , if someone entered the room , or to open both eyes , smile , and wag his tail as he 'd done on one occasion when confronted by a housebreaker ! |
| 3 | He 'd come for an evening 's entertainment and , though the food was good , he 'd reckoned on stronger meat . |
| 4 | He gave me the inside scoop on the Biggest Wave story : the thirty-five-foot mountain he 'd ridden on 5 January 1985 . |
| 5 | Suffice to say that the young medic concerned must have wished he 'd picked on any person in the history of Equity rather than your hyper-ventilating authoress . |
| 6 | Actually , he 'd started on that before six and I think he 'd finished when I left at six-fifteen . |
| 7 | He wished he 'd thought to put shoes on before he 'd started on this piece of nonsense ; feet felt like blocks of ice . |