Example sentences of "he [vb past] had [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He 'd had that spin-out in practice and he did n't like the way the car was handling . |
| 3 | He 'd be on his back if he 'd had that amount of drink . |
| 4 | He said he 'd had other complaints about them and barred them from the dances . |
| 5 | The year before he 'd had scrambled eggs for Christmas dinner and no presents . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | He 'd had small hands and flawless skin , very pale . |
| 8 | He 'd had great hopes of that chain . |
| 9 | He 'd had little luck with the embassy . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It was n't the first time he 'd had this nightmare ; it was happening more often nowadays . |
| 12 | Yeah I , I , I think , I think it was about by the time he , he 'd had this allowance from you know going to College , I , I think it left him with about twenty seven bob a week , which was n't bad you know . |
| 13 | Cos Michael started it , he said we 're never said anything when we set off in the car , and then he said that he 'd had this fax from me and er Andrew said , well it was n't actually from , er , from me to the , it was fetched up to me and I sent it in the office . |
| 14 | He 'd had this sickness all along , of course , but he 'd worsened since the assassin 's visit , and her tolerance for these traits , braced as she 'd been by her encounter with Gentle , had dropped to zero . |
| 15 | He could handle the fast rise now , although he 'd had some trouble along the way . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He wished he 'd had more sense than to get a lift with Mrs Wright . |
| 18 | He 'd had more time to think , to get used to this slightly absurd rapture . |
| 19 | After he 'd had another cup of coffee , he went up to see Perdita . |
| 20 | He 'd had ten hours in Spits . |
| 21 | They were telling him he 'd had enough drink and stop |
| 22 | So he made a cup of coffee ( realising , sensibly for once , that he 'd had enough alcohol ) , and sat down in the low upholstered chair with wooden arms that was one of the room 's few comforts . |
| 23 | Dalgliesh knew that no politician would have talked with such freedom unless he had had absolute confidence in his listener 's discretion . |
| 24 | He had had 11 exhibitions in Jerusalem and some of his creations lined the walls of his little home , of David Damiani 's home . |
| 25 | ‘ I persuaded him [ the Millwall manager ] that he had had eight years out of me , and I had nothing to show for it . |
| 26 | He had had little sleep from the commencement of the strike and was dog-tired . |
| 27 | It had been less than two days since he had met the Doctor , and he had had little rest . |
| 28 | One MPG teacher thought that , in theory , job satisfaction would increase if there was greater involvement in making decision , but he had had little experience of this ! |
| 29 | He had had little idea of the dire straits prevailing at Berwick nor that time had all but run out . |
| 30 | It is impossible to imagine such an accident ever happening to the meticulous and super-observant John Gould , but Darwin was no ornithologist , and , as a naturalist , he had had little training in the disciplines of collecting or identification . |