Example sentences of "[vb past] he 'd " in BNC.
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| 1 | Did n't think it helped he 'd , just before we got there his biro had exploded in his pocket . |
| 2 | Police saw him go into a flat in West London but by the time they entered he 'd gone . |
| 3 | Chatted with him and found he 'd missed breakfast . |
| 4 | ‘ She found he 'd drawn out quite a lot of money on Friday , from two building society accounts they 've got . |
| 5 | So he made a couple of phone calls to Osnabrück-he found he 'd been given a room with an Engineer regiment-then sipped a lager until train time . |
| 6 | I expect he found he 'd sold his working-class birthright for a mess of Bloomsbury pottage . |
| 7 | ' … so that the end of the week he found he 'd lost two stone . |
| 8 | My father was a Gemini , and I knew your mother was a Sagittarian as soon as I found he 'd given her half the clip . |
| 9 | ‘ Steve ! ’ she cried in amazement as he let himself into the apartment , grinning all over his silly face as if he 'd just popped out for a paper that morning and found he 'd won the state lottery . |
| 10 | The inquest into his death found he 'd taken nine times the usual dose of LSD … but recorded an open verdict . |
| 11 | His name was , but I found he 'd been lodging in a house in Road close to the railway station . |
| 12 | When this incident occurred he 'd been working on a project in Harlow in Essex setting up another system . |
| 13 | As he smiled Lisa sensed he believed he 'd won her over . |
| 14 | But tonight he said he believed he 'd been punished enough . |
| 15 | The local doc — the guy who 'd helped save Andy after he almost died under the ice all those years earlier — was on holiday at the time and there was a locum , a deputising doctor in charge of the practice , except from what the locals muttered later it seemed he 'd treated his stay in Strathspeld as a holiday , too , and spent more time on river banks with a rod in his hands than at bedsides toting a stethoscope . |
| 16 | It seemed he 'd only half heard her . |
| 17 | Patterson was one of the last out , but it seemed he 'd got the message about his visitor as he hurried towards his office without a sideways glance . |
| 18 | Now , abruptly , she could see that he imagined he 'd chalked up yet another small victory . |
| 19 | ‘ I imagined he 'd never seen her ! ’ |
| 20 | Erm that again had been rolled into balls and then he 'd have erm about a dozen sticks which which held these balls and stuck them in then after he 'd he 'd erm er thatched one erm length , one row , he 'd pull the string over and attach it to the the thick s er rope that was er going over the stack . |
| 21 | And he 'd he 'd been on the dole er I think two years , and he 's just started up a a building site . |
| 22 | During the first war he 'd he 'd lost a ship and so finally he decided to buy a ship and he bought two little schooners in f in Porthmadog . |
| 23 | I 've actually seen erm er been in a workshop as a participant where a chap who was excellent at this had what he did was while while the participants were doing some sort of an exercise he was actually making these tiny notes up in the top corner for himself so that when he when he came to the next sort of section that he wanted he 'd he 'd got he 'd got the odd notes just up there in the corner . |
| 24 | And then they sent me a questionnaire saying they understood that he 'd he 'd given my address , and was he res , was he still resident ? |
| 25 | and he said he 'd he 'd got ! |
| 26 | I mean , I can remember seeing an interview with er , John Geilgud and he 'd he 'd done Hamlet many years ago and er but he said he 'd it was in a totally different way you know , different |
| 27 | He 'd he 'd done it all , he was happy enough then . |
| 28 | I 'd feel differently if she 'd made my father really happy , but , believe me , he soon learnt he 'd made a mistake in marrying Bertha . ’ |
| 29 | KATE was left sitting alone once more as Ace stormed off , but she hardly noticed he 'd gone because all she could think about was how the fuel blend had let them down . |
| 30 | She noticed he 'd showered and changed , as he came out to meet her , grabbing his bags from her limp grasp . |