Example sentences of "[noun] he 'd had " 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 | They 'd danced to Michael 's band and her glossy pink trousers flashed and moved in the dimmed lights , and he had felt elated and mildly drunk , and had lost most of the inhibitions he 'd had about dancing , until it became clear to his confused brain that the drummer , who had soft dark hair and was probably a potential Celtic supporter , was getting on so well with Amanda that perhaps they should move on elsewhere , and he swayed out of the room , pushing her in front of him , and bumped into someone at the door , and had realised it was the man in the raincoat , only he was in a dark suit and a tie with geometric designs . |
| 3 | He 'd never told Mum about the words he 'd had with the relief officers , which was a blessing really because she would never have shut up about it . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She would have to have some money to support it , and it was only right he should pay for the pleasure he 'd had . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Since being stuck in Cork he 'd had only two brief periods of leave with her . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In those days he 'd had thick wavy hair . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | White flung the pair of lemon panties he 'd had scrunched up in his coat pocket on to the arm of the chair I was sitting in . |
| 13 | 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 ! |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ So he wandered the countryside for a long time , starving and having to beg for food , and sleeping in barns and under trees , and eventually he found a little town where all the beggars and old people he 'd had thrown out of the city had gone ; they were very poor , of course , but by all helping each other they had more than the merchant had . |
| 16 | However , he had come to make it clear that he wanted to continue the arrangement he 'd had with Kattina . |
| 17 | A feeling of elation came over him , the same feeling he 'd had when Mary had left . |
| 18 | As for his own peers — the friends he 'd had before Vanessa — most had faded . |
| 19 | With Romy he 'd had a real romance but it had flourished only on the Continent and withered in the cold climate of England . |
| 20 | So yo , so you 're saying that it should have been explained to the man from West Calder that that 's the sort of , er level of charges he 'd had to pay and if he did n't want to pay it he should have taken a different house ? |
| 21 | The Coroner said , this was the most difficult and complex case he 'd had to deal with . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It was quite unlike Ace to have left her to carry her own baggage , but of course he 'd had a hard race . |
| 25 | Of course he 'd had a lot on his mind . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | " All right then ? " he said , smiling again , his head a little on one side , a gesture he 'd had as a small boy . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Was he going to give her some note on performance , some idea he 'd had for a new bit of business in the play ? |