Example sentences of "[pers pn] 'd have a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I told him about taking six months off and doing rep in the provinces just to get back in touch with live acting and live audiences and he reacted as if I told him I 'd had a mental breakdown . |
| 2 | I fell asleep and remember him lifting me off and putting me on the settee cushion but I 'd had a tiring evening and hardly stirred . |
| 3 | I was optimistic , because I 'd had a good turnout two years earlier for a smaller project , the clean-up of an old railway path . |
| 4 | I 'd had a good week . |
| 5 | I became even more thankful that I 'd had a normal birth as it would have been so hard to cope after a repeat section . |
| 6 | Quite right ; but I 'd had a vague recollection , and looked it up , and although the shirt of the centaur Nessus , saturated as it was in his poisoned blood , had caused Hercules no end of pain … |
| 7 | ‘ By the time I 'd got to Surrey , ’ says Shaun of the trials and tribulations of recording ‘ Yes Please ’ , ‘ I 'd had a great time in Barbados letting off steam and everything . |
| 8 | I 'd had a stable home at the price of her martyrdom and this was how I 'd repaid her . |
| 9 | ‘ If only I 'd had a stable childhood , maybe none of this would have happened … . ’ |
| 10 | But this morning she caught me unawares before I 'd had a single cup of coffee . |
| 11 | I 'd had a soft erection before , but as our mouths collided — we had n't even been able to kiss all week ! — it hardened up painfully . |
| 12 | In my tycoon days , before the collapse of my second career , I 'd had a fair amount to do with bankers , and my collective memory of them was of thin , precise men , in dark suits and wearing rimless glasses . |
| 13 | If I 'd had a proper education do you think I 'd be driving this cab around ? ’ |
| 14 | It was as if I 'd had a bad dream . |
| 15 | He does n't have to do anything , but about four Christmas 's ago I had the whole lot down , I had nine of us for the whole Christmas week , erm , Boxing Day I went in the kitchen , two of Diane 's friends had arrived , who lived in London and I went in the kitchen , I 'd had a bad dose of the flu virus that was |
| 16 | He told me you 'd had a serious tiff , but he hopes to persuade you to return to LA . ’ |
| 17 | When we were talking just now before the programme started I think you said that you were n't sure that you 'd had a great deal of contact with the university one way or another , but surely you 've been surrounded by university people ? |
| 18 | I was very pleased that you 'd had a good go at that |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ Well , goodbye , ’ he finished conventionally ; ‘ I wish you 'd had a better day . ’ |
| 21 | So you 'd had a big breakfast and it 's still normal which implies you 're going to be fine , now |
| 22 | Then briefly describe an occasion on which you wish you 'd had a waterproof camera . |
| 23 | If you 'd , if you 'd had a little bit yourself you would n't , you would n't have smelt it . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Second , on any other night Hilda might have dozed off in the chair , but not after she 'd had a flaming row with Viola . ’ |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Kate , pregnant with her second baby , thought she knew what to expect when it came to giving birth , especially since she 'd had a long labour first time round . |
| 28 | He would have enjoyed the odd weekend in Brighton away from the pressures of London life , if only she 'd had a bigger flat . |
| 29 | Lucinda came home from her first riding lesson and told her dad that she 'd had a great time . |
| 30 | 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 . |