Example sentences of "'d have [adj] " 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 | And since , unlike many wives of city moguls , she 'd had recent experience at the sharp end of business in the City of London , she understood , only too clearly , the problems he was facing at the present time . |
| 4 | If we had started on week one , where if we 'd had complete programme information up to week thirteen when , that 'd be more complete would n't it ? |
| 5 | ‘ He should have been the best horse I ever had , if only he 'd had decent health ! ’ from owner David Broome , this was quite some testimonial to the abilities of the brilliant grey show-jumper , Phoenix Park . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Well now , at the end of that six months I 'd had varied success , sometimes I had poor periods when I was n't detecting much , then I would have a little break , do better , but at the end of the six months nobody told me whether I was stopping there , but twenty years later I did go back to uniform as an inspector . |
| 9 | No doubt she 'd had ample proof of it . |
| 10 | He 'd had small hands and flawless skin , very pale . |
| 11 | From the glimpses he 'd caught he believed she 'd had slight curves — he would n't have fancied her otherwise . |
| 12 | Reynard shrugged and silently handed Jahsaxa the report he 'd had printed , showing all the places where Tammuz did n't appear and which , given his profession , he should have done . |
| 13 | cos we 'd had cooked , had the heating on , and now I did the washing-up in really hot water . |
| 14 | And if you 'd had adjacent and hypotenuse ? |
| 15 | This was by far the most enjoyable experience I 'd had working in the theatre . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | We talked it through and agreed we 'd had great years together and why should n't we get back together again . |
| 18 | He 'd had great hopes of that chain . |
| 19 | He said he 'd had other complaints about them and barred them from the dances . |
| 20 | So when my cousin rang to ask ‘ which machine ’ , I said I 'd had good results and so on . |
| 21 | Ever since the journey to this place seventeen months ago I 'd had occasional panic attacks at the thought of being ‘ mummified ’ and stuck in the base of a truck again . |
| 22 | It was the first time we 'd had proper monitors on stage — which meant it was the first time John heard his own voice . |
| 23 | He noted that she 'd had numerous stomach pumps as a result of such accidents in the past , and someone should have cared . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | She 'd had severe hearing impairment since birth and had become profoundly deaf in her mid-twenties , at a time when welfare services were mainly restricted to those provided by charities and phrases like ‘ deaf and dumb ’ were still common public currency . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | When she 'd been very little , not too long after her parents had died , she 'd had bad dreams . |
| 28 | And he had , kept getting bad , and he 'd had bad heads oh for years but he just thought that was , he was one of them people that got bad heads . |
| 29 | In those days he 'd had thick wavy hair . |
| 30 | ‘ Then I discovered that on top of everything else I 'd had wrong about you , you were a virgin . |