Example sentences of "[vb past] have [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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31 The CO sat in another rain-washed tent to receive Charles 's fairly smart salute and ask him if he 'd had a good day .
32 Tomorrow , when she 'd had a good night 's sleep , she 'd be much better capable of dealing with him .
33 He told me that he 'd got a good home , or he 'd had a good home , and he just I said why do n't you live there ?
34 that 's what I mean if they 'd had a good whistler he kept instead of her , could n't he ?
35 If I was a less trusting soul I 'd have said he 'd had a good lunch .
36 I was very pleased that you 'd had a good go at that
37 By now she 'd had a good look at him .
38 So anyway we 'd had a good look round and this ch church warden said hey you 'd better go and get some seats cos it 's going to get .
39 Her father , Peter Few Brown said they 'd had a good visit .
40 If you 'd had a good horse , you asked for hol holiday with er , alright you 'd get it , you would n't do your horse , you know , they 'd take your horse off you .
41 I just hoped he 'd had a good surveyor on the job before committing himself .
42 He 'd had a good line going with a number of the wives out here — what man had n't ?
43 I 'd had a good week .
44 And he 'd tell me stories or sing to me , and sometimes , after he 'd had a good tumblerful of whisky , he 'd slide his hand up my shorts and stroke my thigh .
45 They 'd had a good time .
46 They 'd had a good time , it had given him a good holiday , her too .
47 He 'd had a new set made for him by the professional but somehow could not get used to them .
48 ‘ After we 'd had a nice dinner together , we 'd go into Richard 's studio and we 'd put on music .
49 If he 'd had a nice meal by the fire and the box to watch and no screaming and yelling he 'd have stayed in like Hoomey .
50 I did ask if they 'd had a nice meal , but Lisabeth just ‘ harrumphed ’ so I dropped the subject and told them instead that I was going to meet Duncan and collect Salome 's car .
51 ‘ Well , goodbye , ’ he finished conventionally ; ‘ I wish you 'd had a better day . ’
52 In the days when it was briefly fashionable to be seen around with black people she had also been known as ‘ Missy ’ , and she 'd had a black lover then .
53 You could get the odds because he 'd had a poor year until then by his standards .
54 Once Keith left it at the home of some guy he 'd had a one night stand with , and when he went back to get it he was so embarrassed he had sex with the guy again , which was a mistake for both of them .
55 A couple of winters ago , caught out on a patch of ice , she 'd had a mild argument with a lamppost , damaging more or less the same spot that had been damaged again today .
56 Erm , on appendix B , erm there is an item which erm members of the committee erm will know about very well it 's the laboratory services that we give and have a great relate to them , erm the item goes under seven I believe , the figures there have dropped , is that because we 'd had a successful income erm there , we 've got a hundred and ten thousand for both up ninety two and ninety three and ninety , sorry ninety two three and ninety three ninety four , is it that er , could we know or are we estimating that we 're going to get a nice income because we have been told in earlier reports that this is quite a good slice of income to us and those figures are amended accordingly is that right ?
57 He cut into her thoughts with a question about the ball and she repeated her earlier assurance that she 'd had a successful evening , adding that in all conscience she ought to have been driving back to London to work on some of the stories .
58 Two years earlier he 'd had a privatised council house in East Ham , a nice little business and his family .
59 The barman looked like he 'd had a long day 's journey into night , although the monocle and the silk smoking-jacket were as natty as ninepence .
60 The five-star novelist gave me an unfathomable glimmer when I closed the car door for her and remarked that she 'd had a long chat with Harry that afternoon on the telephone .
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