Example sentences of "[vb past] had [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She remembered the difficulties they 'd had repairing Starlings after the war , when you could n't get a brick or a plank of wood , not even if you was royalty ; and she remembered comforting Nell as each granddaughter left home . |
| 2 | The year before he 'd had scrambled eggs for Christmas dinner and no presents . |
| 3 | I sent her Nit Ac LM1 and did n't hear anything for a year when she rang up with a headache — it turned out that the anal fissure had cleared quickly and she felt she had been miraculously well given her sister had been murdered 12mths previously and she 'd had 4 months leave of absence from work to deal with the aftermath which had involved her nephew joining the family . |
| 4 | But if I 'd had eight months of thinking , I do n't think I could have taken it . |
| 5 | ‘ No , ’ she replied , ‘ if I 'd had black parents to go home to , they would have been on the receiving end of aggro all day long as well . ’ |
| 6 | The following Saturday she agreed , at least , to go with him but then all she did was pick holes : ‘ Carpet 's frayed , ’ she said , after inspecting an apparently immaculate place in Muswell Hill ; ‘ Too far from the shops , ’ of a modern luxury development on the prestigious fringes of Hampstead Heath ; and of the one he 'd had real hopes for , a newly-converted maisonette over towards Crouch End — ‘ original features all been taken out . |
| 7 | He 'd had small hands and flawless skin , very pale . |
| 8 | Did I tell me when we got up to erm Newcastle we turned on the local news , they 'd had five inches of rain which is a winter 's rain in four days . |
| 9 | From the glimpses he 'd caught he believed she 'd had slight curves — he would n't have fancied her otherwise . |
| 10 | ‘ We 'd had six months of worrying whether everything was going to be all right — what Joseph would look like , or whether he would be all there , ’ says Leslie , her relief still evident . |
| 11 | Lined up against the working mums were women who 'd given up work to look after their children , women who 'd had working mothers themselves and felt they had missed out , and women who had tried to do it all and given up the struggle . |
| 12 | We talked it through and agreed we 'd had great years together and why should n't we get back together again . |
| 13 | He 'd had great hopes of that chain . |
| 14 | He said he 'd had other complaints about them and barred them from the dances . |
| 15 | Not that they 'd had many takers , no more than fifty , mostly scum from prison camps attracted by the offer of good food , women and money . |
| 16 | Karen King — because she was English , Jessica insisted — had given over even thinking about them , let alone imagining what they might do with their hard , lean bodies and their tired , rope-burned hands , had given over bothering to deny she 'd had such fantasies . |
| 17 | So when my cousin rang to ask ‘ which machine ’ , I said I 'd had good results and so on . |
| 18 | She 'd had two helpings . |
| 19 | she loved children and I think she would of had more because she 'd had two miscarriages and she 's |
| 20 | I mean really I er it shook me because I was extremely naive , I 'd had two children but I was very very naive in those days . |
| 21 | Just before the men were shot — they 'd had two weeks inside so their beards had taken on something of the authentic rag-tag FAKINTIL glory , as opposed to the clean-shaven image they had presented in their neat malai-issue camos — one shouted out the name of Osvaldo . |
| 22 | I 'd had that years , it really bugged me . |
| 23 | It was interesting to listen to the comments after the game from the Radio 5 reporter who said that we 'd had enough chances to last us ‘ till Christmas , maybe it 'll make a few people sit up and recognise that we have a team capable of winning something this season . |
| 24 | Theodora felt she 'd had enough surprises . |
| 25 | Jay 'd had enough men to know they treat a woman 's body with anything from contempt and rage to inept uncertainty and fear ; once in a blue moon only , with real fascination and tenderness . |
| 26 | It was the first time we 'd had proper monitors on stage — which meant it was the first time John heard his own voice . |
| 27 | I 'm supposed to be resting , but after I 'd had forty winks , I felt a lot better , so I toddled over here . |
| 28 | Out of the three statements from fellow travellors read out to the coroner , non said they 'd had previous warnings from either the travel company or the foreign office that the region they were in had experienced previous Muslim fundamentalist acts of terrorism against visitors . |
| 29 | He 'd had ten hours in Spits . |
| 30 | She 'd had bad times before she got the flat , but with the flat and the job she felt herself well off She worked from six in the morning to a quarter to nine , getting the offices clean and tidy for the staff who came in at nine o'clock , and for two hours in the evening , from six-thirty to eight-thirty . |