Example sentences of "'d [vb pp] him [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | I knew he 'd fought James on it tooth and nail , and though in all honesty I felt I 'd won him round to some extent since , the prejudices remained beneath the surface of benignity , waiting only for some unwary blunder on my part to crack the surface and let them burst through . |
2 | No he said , and I went over and I picked him up anyway , and sat him on , I sat him on my knee and I said we 'll just do some rhymes and I could feel him sort of going mm , mm , mm , like they do all pathetic and whiny , anyway Phyllis arrived and afterwards it was , by then he had calmed down and he was fine and I said wan na read the story now cos he missed it of course when he decided he could n't do without his car , so I said next week perhaps come without your car , I think I 'd won him over by the end but , it was a bit hairy . |
3 | ‘ He was n't as odd as you 'd made him out to be , your friend , ’ Gillian said as we left . |
4 | I 'd seen him around at one or two private parties given by wire service operators and gamblers . |
5 | Not since he 'd seen him off from Nanking back in November ‘ 03 . |
6 | Therefore , Patterson was a bigger wig than I 'd had him down as . |
7 | Because he 'd pulled him back like that , stopped him from doing what he wanted , he was going to have one of his screaming fits . |
8 | It was probably true that he 'd asked him down to London . |
9 | They 'd fished him out of the water , so presumably he 'd drowned . |
10 | Mike came down yesterday morning , mind you he had been on his own quite a lot , a lot of time yesterday for the day Josh , cos I went to Altrincham with me mum at half nine and it , I 'd taken him out for a walk to make sure he 'd had his walk and Mike did n't get up till gone half two and when he come down he 'd cut a report of Lisa 's on the floor |
11 | They 'd as good as killed him when they 'd taken him out of the field . |
12 | And we 'd started him up with a little donkey engine and a saw bench , started him up making bundles of firewood up . |
13 | By the time I left , I 'd beaten him down to about twice the price he probably had in mind . |
14 | They 'd piled him in with the dead , and it was only later a naval ensign noticed him twitching . |
15 | Promotion at Maidstone was never to be his ; instead they 'd sent him back to Ramsgate , scene of his early success in capturing the notorious smuggler Rum-Bubber Bill . |
16 | ‘ I wish to God now I 'd lugged him back to his chain gang by the ear . |