Example sentences of "'d have the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wished he 'd had the same confidence in front of audiences because he was probably the most talented actor of us all . |
| 2 | I 've experienced them , ’ — remembering , with a shudder , a crappy little agency in Clapham where there had lurked a loud gritty third-rate Scottish horror she 'd had the misfortune to run across in her Algox days . |
| 3 | All he knew was that he had always woken up with a splitting headache afterwards , and often wished he 'd had the headache instead the night before . |
| 4 | Earlier , I 'd had the good fortune to place my left ear point-blank to old Gavel Basher 's larynx as he asked everyone in a 20-mile radius ( or so it seemed ) to be seated . |
| 5 | Once she 'd had the baby , she immediately set about getting back to her ‘ normal ’ weight , even though that weight was so low that her body could not function normally . |
| 6 | If we 'd had the confidence and belief in our finishing that we had in our general play , we would have been 2–0 up at half-time . ’ |
| 7 | The twins , both 22 , though Kevin is 11 minutes older , pulled no punches in the welterweight bout and Steve tells Associated Press : ‘ If I 'd had the chance , I 'd have knocked him out . ’ |
| 8 | Because I 'd had the grand advice from my grandma . |
| 9 | Sally confesses : ‘ We realized , after we 'd had the dividing wall rebuilt between the front room and the back parlour , that it was impossible to get in or out of the back parlour , since we 'd also had the doorway closed off and made into a display case for the tortoiseshell medical implements Peter collects . |
| 10 | Afterwards I could n't believe I had managed to say this ; I could n't believe that I 'd had the intelligence , the wit , the inspiration to come up with this perfect reply . |
| 11 | There was a pile of coffee pots , cutlery and rotten linen already in the garden that had been buried there by the waiter who 'd had the house before me ! |
| 12 | When he is sentenced to gaol he pleads in mitigation that he ‘ might have been a better citizen if I 'd had the levels ’ , to a Judge who did n't understand what he was saying , and of course the last page sees him studying for ‘ the levels ’ in prison . |
| 13 | Whatever it was , the moment I saw the Parsons I knew them for British as surely as though they 'd had the word stamped on their hides like bacon . |
| 14 | If only your parents 'd had the sense to let you to go in for it . ’ |
| 15 | Not once had he tried to take advantage of her and he 'd had the chance . |
| 16 | I put them back into the tank , still amazed they 'd had the strength to move the glass . |
| 17 | Bits of Meccano lay around waiting to be pilfered if I 'd had the courage . |
| 18 | Christ , how he wished he 'd had the courage to ask her to marry him before all this . |
| 19 | We have all wished that we 'd had the perfect retort at some time , but most of us can only think of something smart about three days later . |
| 20 | Now if she 'd had the voice of the little dumpy one they all took the mickey out of , Lemon , as they called her , he just might have put the question to her . |
| 21 | The cut where the wing had been severed was quite clean , and the blood had dried up , so she concluded that the poor bird must have flown through some overhead wires in the vicinity during the severe gales we 'd had the night before . |
| 22 | I mean , I 'd had the feeling before , a bit , the first couple of times I went up on the End , it was that much closer to the spindle . |
| 23 | I thought he might have had a place at the Youth , it seemed to me that he might have been a leader if he 'd had the encouragement . |
| 24 | If he 'd had the money to choose a more experienced barrister , if the Marshal himself had been on the spot in the first place instead of that young fool student , Bacci , who fancied himself as some sort of Hollywood detective , probably have shot himself accidentally by this time … whole thing had been a mess from start to finish … |
| 25 | ‘ If I 'd had the sense to be frank with her last March , maybe I could have done that . |
| 26 | They will at first be assailed after meetings by colleagues saying ‘ Good for you ’ and ‘ I wish I 'd had the courage to say that ’ and ‘ That 's just what I think . |
| 27 | I mean when he was born they laid him on me , he 'd had the cord round his neck three times and he looked like a tortoise with his long neck and this little tiny head [ laughs ] . |
| 28 | She was reported as seeing it as a serious matter and thought the fine by the court was not enough : ‘ I 'd have chopped his hand off if I 'd had the chance ’ . |
| 29 | That feeling lasted a while but after we 'd had the children something changed and I slowly realized that I did n't love her anymore . |
| 30 | This meant that she was in the clinic , she 'd had the scan , she was ovulating , her feet were up in stirrups — they needed my sample there and then . ’ |