Example sentences of "'d have [det] " in BNC.

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1 He 'd had little luck with the embassy .
2 Her sister would blame Claudia for tracking her down ; she would n't believe she 'd had little choice in the matter .
3 She had always suspected that he 'd had little time for any brain power that she might possess — just as she had always known that her chief value for him had been the almost instantaneous sexual desire they had felt for each other .
4 She 'd had little to drink tonight , perhaps two glasses of champagne all evening .
5 Not that she 'd had much time to explore it , of course .
6 I did n't think you 'd had much of it .
7 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 .
8 And , you know , we all lost a good friend ; I 'd had such a great time over those last two days working with him and with Eric , and I think about that time quite a bit .
9 And yet … we 'd had such a good few days I suppose I wanted to keep the mood going .
10 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 .
11 But after our day out when we 'd had such a good time it seemed as though you might care and that we could have a chance .
12 But he 'd had that last night — or rather , in the small hours of the morning .
13 True , he 'd had that weird feeling in the hall , but seeing her on the landing a moment ago had been no illusion .
14 He 'd had that spin-out in practice and he did n't like the way the car was handling .
15 I 'd had that years , it really bugged me .
16 They were afraid to ta but if they 'd had that if they 'd told me to provide an extra coach for the Manchester as I was suggesting , Dougie would have come out and taken strips off them for You see .
17 Well you think today i if you 'd had that
18 He 'd be on his back if he 'd had that amount of drink .
19 Erm but the reality is that erm we would therefore need our budget to , in fact for the first half of this year , to have , well for the whole year , to have reflected the late delivery of the systems which would 've , if we 'd had that in the budget and we 'd been projecting the whole budget at say two point six , our budget figure would 've been somewhere in the region of another eighty to ninety thousand higher than it currently is for this first quarter .
20 After the third demonstration , Charles said he 'd better go , and Dottie , recognising that she 'd had all she was getting , took a sleeping pill and let him .
21 ‘ And when you got back here , everyone could see that Walter was just a shell , just a husk you 'd had all the goodness out of .
22 If you 'd had all people come in and try to bring in new ideas on to an old system , I do n't think it would have worked .
23 Uncle Willi , she was sure , would totally understand about being in love , even though he was Georg 's father , but he would n't understand that you had to be in love on the one night of his party , not when you 'd had all those other evenings with Gesner .
24 She 'd had all of four or five hours , before she 'd come rushing after him like a lovelorn schoolgirl …
25 Time after time , people would slowly open a drawer and give me something they knew perfectly well they 'd had all the time I 'd been visiting them and talking to them , but the moment was now right .
26 because I 'd had medical Yeah it was cos I 'd had all these operations .
27 he was like being shy but he 'd had all the side of his fur like shaved , and I thought urgh !
28 I 'd had enough .
29 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 .
30 I 'd had enough of my hair looking like a toilet brush , so I always had it cut short — like Ronnie Lane 's of course — which was less hassle .
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