Example sentences of "[noun sg] he 'd have " in BNC.

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1 He felt like nursery food after the pummelling he 'd had during the meeting and that was the nearest thing to it on the menu .
2 One more story about O : he told me ( it was as if he was trying to explain the oddity of his lovemaking to me , as if he was trying to account for or apologise for the way he 'd treated me , or perhaps to reassure me concerning the effect he 'd had on me , I do n't know ) , in the morning he told me that there was one man , this had been just a couple of years previously , there was one man who had summoned him to his bedside to be counted amongst a farewell gathering of lovers , dear friends and great passions .
3 She would have to have some money to support it , and it was only right he should pay for the pleasure he 'd had .
4 But the Guider and all the Pack learned later on about her meeting with the stranger on the seat , because at the next Pack Meeting the Guider read out a letter from Mr. Bishop , the estate agent , which said the Earl of Ferngrove had given special instructions that the Brownie Guide Pack could continue to use the Park whenever they wished , as he was quite satisfied , thanks to a chat he 'd had with one of them , that they were very careful not to leave litter about in the Park .
5 Jamie was in the middle of a story about a disagreement he 'd had with a master at his school over the A-level English syllabus when the phone rang .
6 And erm we spoke to the Chairman during the afternoon in his house and was talking to him and spoke to him about erm an accident he 'd had in the quarry .
7 You 're not telling me he 'd ridden all the way from Yorkshire after the gruelling day he 'd had , just to enjoy the pleasures of your delightful little body !
8 That morning he 'd had an hour at a training centre ( ’ not just a fleeting photo opportunity ’ ) ; in the street he was collared by an elderly chap about the price of Guinness and tried in vain to stick a Vote For Me sticker on a recalcitrant toddler .
9 However , he had come to make it clear that he wanted to continue the arrangement he 'd had with Kattina .
10 A feeling of elation came over him , the same feeling he 'd had when Mary had left .
11 With Romy he 'd had a real romance but it had flourished only on the Continent and withered in the cold climate of England .
12 The Coroner said , this was the most difficult and complex case he 'd had to deal with .
13 She wanted to tell of the flogging he 'd had , not in far off Jamaica , but here in England , but the forbidding frown and her own instinctive suspicion of strangers kept her silent .
14 And he himself had been a faithful husband , not that he had n't had his chances — of course he 'd had his chances — other supplications and wooing had come his way , more spirited too than that woman from the stationery shop .
15 It was quite unlike Ace to have left her to carry her own baggage , but of course he 'd had a hard race .
16 Of course he 'd had a lot on his mind .
17 Reynard shrugged and silently handed Jahsaxa the report he 'd had printed , showing all the places where Tammuz did n't appear and which , given his profession , he should have done .
18 " All right then ? " he said , smiling again , his head a little on one side , a gesture he 'd had as a small boy .
19 It was the same expression he 'd had when backing away from the struggle around the campfire just before Osvaldo — his beard still smouldering — had put him under arrest .
20 You see , the last order he 'd had from her was made from London after she 'd disappeared — although he did n't know that .
21 Was he going to give her some note on performance , some idea he 'd had for a new bit of business in the play ?
22 No more than that , for we were all on renewable annual contracts and Clive never tired of reminding us just how many eager applicants there had been the last time he 'd had to ‘ let someone go ’ .
23 And B-tested Peter Davidson , a former police inspector , said later : ‘ I thought at the time he 'd had more to drink than me .
24 Every time he 'd had a few drinks , they took starring roles in the fantasies that played themselves out in his head .
25 It was n't the first time he 'd had this nightmare ; it was happening more often nowadays .
26 Cleo concluded it was probably not the first time he 'd had to deal with a situation like this .
27 He says that he was told his father was alive after the first crash … by the time he 'd had the second crash in the rescue boat he was dead .
28 Once Keith left it at the home of some guy he 'd had a one night stand with , and when he went back to get it he was so embarrassed he had sex with the guy again , which was a mistake for both of them .
29 Although just what she had done with all her unencumbered time since he 'd moved the rest of them to Almsmead , other than take an excessive interest in the mill-school he 'd had to build to keep on the right side of that damned , interfering Factory Act , he was uncertain .
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