Example sentences of "'d have for " in BNC.

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1 Barbara was bored with the bob she 'd had for the past four years and was ready for a complete change .
2 I felt then that at last the ambitions I 'd had for so long were possible , and that I could stop worrying about the gypsy who 'd looked at me closely a couple of years earlier , and said : ‘ You 'll never come to anything , you wo n't . ’
3 When I left school , which was in nineteen thirty , it was a bad time for employment , there was a lot of unemploy unemployed people and I tried and tried and eventually I was offered a job at the Bloxwich Lock and Stamping Company in Bell Lane Alexander works , it was er er Squires 's were , er it 's a family er er concern , and erm it was the first offer I 'd had for employment so I took it .
4 I had one of the best nights I 'd had for ages , and slept through the rest of the ebb and the whole of the flood .
5 Was he going to give her some note on performance , some idea he 'd had for a new bit of business in the play ?
6 He could remember the distant past and his family and friends , but ask him where he 'd just been , what he 'd had for lunch and which room he 'd just come out of , and he was stumped .
7 But that 's it the system is n't but they send us a donation which they 'd had for appearing on B B C or something .
8 She reminded me that I was a married man — forbade me to approach her or speak to her again in that way , but at the same time I knew I had made her think about the old days — the attraction we 'd had for each other which she could not deny .
9 Of all the opportunities I 'd had for a good chat-up line , simply croaking ‘ Hospital ’ was n't one of my best .
10 When he asked for an artificial leg for his newly amputated right leg he was told not only that he could n't have one , but he 'd also have to give up his existing left false leg , which he 'd had for six years .
11 I think it was a car that she 'd had for was well looked after her dad used to see to it for her but it was she 'd had it for some years and she was always poodling about in you see .
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