Example sentences of "he 'd have [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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31 He felt odd , queer , as if he 'd had a bad dream .
32 He 'd had a bad shave and his hair looked as if it was growing back after having been cut too short .
33 Marius had a history of heart trouble — you say he 'd had a minor attack before you went to France in the summer .
34 It was as if he 'd had a sudden glimpse of a side of himself he did n't know , a side that was dark and uncontrolled .
35 He 'd stayed there ( ‘ in Didcart ’ ) much longer than he 'd intended ; and when finally he tore himself away from the Cornish Riviera and the Torbay Express he 'd walked back to Didcot Parkway Station at about five o'clock , and caught the next train back to Oxford , where he 'd , er , where he 'd had a quick drink in the Station Buffet .
36 Harry Andrews , who knew him for years , said , ‘ When he 'd had a few drinks he could be noisy .
37 Every time he 'd had a few drinks , they took starring roles in the fantasies that played themselves out in his head .
38 Anyway , he disappeared soon after you left — told Stella he 'd had a heavy day and was off to bed with a book .
39 With the hassle , I somehow missed out on the pudding , but G assured me he 'd had the usual number of five .
40 He says that he was told his father was alive after the first crash … by the time he 'd had the second crash in the rescue boat he was dead .
41 ‘ From now on , that charge will be mine , ’ he 'd had the utter nerve to tell her .
42 I wished he 'd had the same confidence in front of audiences because he was probably the most talented actor of us all .
43 He 'd had an addled idea that he wanted to stand there all night , so that first thing in the morning he could approach the kids and explain to them what it was he was after .
44 He 'd had an intense affair at Oxford which had drifted through almost a dozen years of indeterminate life and ended in a brutal rejection .
45 He 'd had an irrational feeling that something must have happened in his absence , simply because he had n't been there , but he was wrong .
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