Example sentences of "'d had a [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd had a serious liaison before the war with a young girl whom he 'd got pregnant . |
| 2 | She 'd had a terrible time at the birth . |
| 3 | He 'd had a blazing row with a ‘ Foreign Office Johnnie ’ , and was on the point of bursting when a third voice had come onto the line . |
| 4 | Second , on any other night Hilda might have dozed off in the chair , but not after she 'd had a flaming row with Viola . ’ |
| 5 | But they 'd had a thorough look through his life just to be sure and hit the jackpot entirely by chance . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | I 'd had a stable home at the price of her martyrdom and this was how I 'd repaid her . |
| 9 | Surely , after the wonderful night of passion she had experienced with Ross , they 'd had a real chance of mending their relationship ? |
| 10 | Poor old thing — but she 'd had a good life by all accounts . ’ |
| 11 | I was very pleased that you 'd had a good go at that |
| 12 | By now she 'd had a good look at him . |
| 13 | I just hoped he 'd had a good surveyor on the job before committing himself . |
| 14 | And he 'd tell me stories or sing to me , and sometimes , after he 'd had a good tumblerful of whisky , he 'd slide his hand up my shorts and stroke my thigh . |
| 15 | If he 'd had a nice meal by the fire and the box to watch and no screaming and yelling he 'd have stayed in like Hoomey . |
| 16 | You could get the odds because he 'd had a poor year until then by his standards . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | In all the cases they 'd had a violent experience in earlier childhood . |
| 20 | She 'd had a wondrous time with another man , a time that filled her with remembered textures and sensations , that would have left her smiling now if Parr had not become so damned intrusive . |
| 21 | He 'd had a bad dream in which he 'd been not only head of the Conservative Research Department , but also with the Raj in Belfast , and confronted by coalminers and oil-rig workers to boot . |
| 22 | 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 |
| 23 | But this morning she caught me unawares before I 'd had a single cup of coffee . |
| 24 | We 'd had a huge rally of 10,000 people for Ronald Reagan at the Southern Methodist University in Dallas and I was flying on to Los Angeles with one of the co-ordinators the next morning . |
| 25 | He 'd stayed there ( ‘ in Didcart ’ ) much longer than he 'd intended ; and when finally he tore himself away from the Cornish Riviera and the Torbay Express he 'd walked back to Didcot Parkway Station at about five o'clock , and caught the next train back to Oxford , where he 'd , er , where he 'd had a quick drink in the Station Buffet . |
| 26 | In fact she 'd had a brief nap on the flight over and the adrenalin was racing round her body , making the possibility of sleep unlikely , but anything was better than sitting like a frightened child beside him , hoping against hope that he would finally melt and utter the sort of words she had once yearned to hear . |
| 27 | But they 'd had a little drink in Germany , and did n't know where to head ! |
| 28 | ‘ Ow long are you weeth us , Reeky ? ’ asked Claudia , who 'd had a secret crush on him in the old days and was appalled to see how grey and tense he looked . |
| 29 | It was as if he 'd had a sudden glimpse of a side of himself he did n't know , a side that was dark and uncontrolled . |
| 30 | Although we we 'd had a modest week in terms of routes , we 'd found enough delight and challenge in the sunlit silence of the valley and the peaks — and now we knew the full potential of the place . |