Example sentences of "[vb past] had more [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When you erm look back on it now , do you wish you 'd had more education at all when you were younger ? |
| 2 | He wished he 'd had more sense than to get a lift with Mrs Wright . |
| 3 | I just wish I 'd had more respect for my body when I was younger . |
| 4 | ‘ He would n't mind going with you to the concert , ’ she said , thinking that she could have phrased that better if she 'd had more notice . |
| 5 | She 'd tried to keep the newspaper story hidden from her because she did n't want to discuss it until she 'd had more time to get her thoughts in order … but of course mother had found it and started questioning compulsively about abortion , what exactly was the law on it now , how did you get one , where did you go , what did it cost , things she must have heard Dorothy and her friends discussing a hundred times but which the newspaper report had triggered into today 's obsession . |
| 6 | If only I 'd had more time . |
| 7 | He 'd had more time to think , to get used to this slightly absurd rapture . |
| 8 | I think would have probably , had more , if we 'd had more time and reversed all and been clearer on our roles . |
| 9 | Fran wished that it had been further away , wished that she 'd had more time to compose herself and remove all traces of that kiss , but as she opened the door and got out of the car when they stopped in front of the neat little semi she was aware of the throbbing redness of her bruised lips , the faintly dishevelled state of her silvery hair . |
| 10 | She had had more responsibility that she 'd expected , but she had enjoyed it and welcomed the stability it had brought to her erratic life . |
| 11 | She had had more help and affection from her dear old Agnes than ever Ray and Kathleen had shown her . |
| 12 | He had been brought up to call Mrs Naulls " Nanna " but had had more luck with her than with Dadda when he wanted to change this mode of address . |
| 13 | Perhaps the shock is severe enough to catapult the person into feeling all the pain and extremity of loss that their defences might not have let them do if they had had more time to get organized . |
| 14 | I think if I had had more time to myself when I first retired I would n't have made that mistake and would have looked for interests nearer home . |
| 15 | Following further approaches from my hon. Friend , a direction was issued to South Glamorgan county council on 11 December requiring it not to approve the proposal until the Secretary of State had had more time to consider whether to call in the matter for his own determination . |
| 16 | After all , she had had more practice at manufacturing realities than Daine . |
| 17 | Ryan had come along just a few weeks after they took the braces off her teeth and the tits started to look like something ; in those few weeks Jo had had more attention from boys than she could handle . |