Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] had [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I 'd rather had the people I can survive with one person , one person down
2 He could n't understand this exuberant friendliness in a boy he 'd only had a glimpse of twice .
3 They 'd only had the boat 18 months .
4 This was n't strictly true as they 'd all had a go on the board .
5 It 's as if he 'd just had a snort of it .
6 Initially she 'd just had a bit of a fever and a very dry throat .
7 She had a seriously ill patient to contend with and she 'd just had a telephone message to say that Brückner 's wife wanted to come up and visit him .
8 Whenever I saw her and Shadwell together they always looked pretty intense , as if they 'd just had a fight or shared a lot of secrets .
9 Marc made her feel as if she 'd just had a battle with a steamroller — but she was mildly pleased with herself .
10 He 'd just had a letter from Joan telling him she was pregnant and had already chosen the name Jasmine if the child was a girl .
11 And you 'd just had a plastic cold just the favourite because for our Martine and pull her along in it .
12 Which one was the real Luke Calder : the hard , tough businessman who would stop at nothing and spare no one to get what he wanted , or that tender stranger she 'd just had a glimpse of ?
13 If he 'd only told them he 'd just had a baby , things might have been different .
14 He 'd just had a stroke
15 The pop Poet Laureate of the cabaret circuit , Hegley chooses subjects from McDonalds to the Gulf War , from spaniels to spectacles — taking on a whole range of everyday tragedies — ‘ the other day I met a bloke lying on the pavement he 'd just had a stroke and I thought a man in his position might appreciate a joke so I said stand back please I 'm a comedian ’
16 whether she 'd just had the baby , I do n't know her surname .
17 And she 'd just had an idea , one which would get them all moving .
18 I 'd just had an idea for a way of doing Lear and it had brought me luck .
19 Yet it 's a theory without logic : if you 'd just had an Austin Utterly Dependable break down and fall to bits , would you really want another one ?
20 But Trevor always arrived in the morning as if he 'd not had a drink .
21 She 'd not had a bath since … since …
22 I think Jane , nobody , he 'd not had a woman stand up to him like that before
23 Which , I later discovered , was most forthcoming for George but he 'd already had a couple of orange squashes himself .
24 In a way it did n't surprise me , because I 'd already had a taste of what he was up to with that land .
25 I re do regret that this has come to full council yet again because I thought we 'd already had the debate .
26 Then by my sixteenth birthday , I 'd already had the baby .
27 ‘ I 'd always had a fantasy about living with an artist and waking up in the morning and him standing there with a canvas .
28 He 'd always had a thing about Famous Last Words .
29 Well we 'd always had the problem going to school .
30 They 'd always had the power to exhange fines for prison , and it was the police who simply did n't understand the law .
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