Example sentences of "i 'd have [art] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You can tell the difference by their boots , ’ Irena told me before I 'd had a chance to ask the question . |
| 2 | ‘ I know what you 're thinking , ’ she said before I 'd had a chance to say anything . |
| 3 | When I went back to the college everybody was thrilled that I 'd had a chance to meet the queen . " |
| 4 | But once I 'd had a chance to calm down a little I realised that what I wanted was you . |
| 5 | This was the old slug 's vicious inheritance , Carson thought bitterly , to dump the money on me before I 'd had a chance to learn how to fight for it or to handle it and too late for it to be of any real use . |
| 6 | I 'd been so busy I 'd had no time to think . |
| 7 | I enjoy the more wishy-washy concepts — I wish perhaps I 'd had the chance to do a physics and philosophy option — and it seems to me that when we do things like quantum physics nobody bothers very much with the concepts that that presents — they just tend to give you all the theory . |
| 8 | But I 'd had the foresight to build up a formidable stockpile and there 's no imminent danger of running out of my favourite footwear . |
| 9 | ‘ When I bought this house and insisted she move in with me she took the path of least resistance and agreed , although even then if I 'd had the wits to see them all the signs were there that although she relished my role as provider she cared very little for me as a person . ’ |
| 10 | They will at first be assailed after meetings by colleagues saying ‘ Good for you ’ and ‘ I wish I 'd had the courage to say that ’ and ‘ That 's just what I think . |
| 11 | Five years with him , my love , my dove , my one and truly — I 'd had the nerve to consider myself cured , paroled , out on good behaviour . |