Example sentences of "he 'd have " in BNC.
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| 1 | But later still he admitted he 'd had his doubts . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The English boy showed the others all the implements and products I had collected for cleaning and disinfecting , telling them I had a mania for cleanliness , and I 'd once decided to wash all his clothes and he 'd had to stay indoors the whole day . |
| 4 | I wished he 'd had the same confidence in front of audiences because he was probably the most talented actor of us all . |
| 5 | But he 'd had more lately . |
| 6 | He 'd had dentures since he was twenty , very bad ill-fitting ones , by the way . |
| 7 | He wished he 'd had more sense than to get a lift with Mrs Wright . |
| 8 | It had begun to seem like the ideas he 'd had when he was younger , that you worked out in school and at night in bed , that seemed so easy , then when it carne to it did n't work out . |
| 9 | So he 'd had it all the time . |
| 10 | When Philip had been in hospital when he 'd had croup that 's what he hated worst , the pulling of the curtains . |
| 11 | It was pink , one he 'd had from a baby . |
| 12 | He 'd had enough of all that European political crap about overseas subsidiaries also having to represent the interests of the local host country where United Motors had a manufacturing presence . |
| 13 | The barman even told him he 'd had enough — something they rarely do unless they think a client 's about to throw up over the upholstery or start taking his clothes off . |
| 14 | Caroline claimed she 'd bathed him , massaged him and that he 'd had her several times dressed in school uniform . |
| 15 | Besides , some of the women Nigel got drunk with told him he 'd had sex with them , so he knew he was normal . |
| 16 | All he knew was that he had always woken up with a splitting headache afterwards , and often wished he 'd had the headache instead the night before . |
| 17 | But he said to Bella , ‘ Yes , he told me , after , that he was dead drunk once , in Portsmouth , when he was on leave from the Navy , and he 'd had them tattooed on for a bet . ’ |
| 18 | The CO sat in another rain-washed tent to receive Charles 's fairly smart salute and ask him if he 'd had a good day . |
| 19 | He 'd had a visit from the Brigade Commander , who had criticized quite sharply several things for which the responsibility did not lie with him , but with his officers and particularly with his men . |
| 20 | If what he saw through security did not impress him , Tammuz need never know he 'd had a visitor . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Though much resented by MPs who had had to go through the tiresome business of getting people to vote for them , he proved a determined and effective minister , until he decided he 'd had enough of the political rough-and-tumble which went with the job . |
| 23 | He 'd had my bald account of events over the telephone in the morning , his first knowledge of what had happened . |
| 24 | Sam looked as if he 'd had too much of the whole thing . |
| 25 | ‘ Dad wishes he 'd had a camera when he went round the world with his father . ’ |
| 26 | For Perkin , making arrows would have been like filing his nails , and he 'd had a stove right in his workroom for the charring . |
| 27 | He 'd had little luck with the embassy . |
| 28 | Victor had bragged , absurdly , that he 'd had a five a.m. rendezvous with her at a private house in Cadogan Square , just before her flight to Poland , and that ‘ the earth had moved ’ . |
| 29 | The letters are pleasantly ephemeral stuff , until the final brave , moving and apologetic note to his wife on the day when , depressed by illness and pain , he decided he 'd had enough . |
| 30 | I think he 'd had a stroke by then , but he came up to me and said very quietly , ‘ How 's your comical friend then ? ’ |