Example sentences of "had five [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had five sittings , an hour at a time . |
| 2 | At last I had five pounds — but when my father and I went to buy them we were told that they cost fifteen pounds , a considerable sum of money to an eight-year-old , and way beyond my means . |
| 3 | we had five pounds worth |
| 4 | They had five customers within minutes of opening up yesterday morning . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I had just one fish from the swim the week before but this time had five botes and took four fish , ’ said David . |
| 6 | Bernard Hinault had five victories between 1978 and 1985 . |
| 7 | He had five victories in 1986 , another six in 1987 , though in each season he had to settle for runner-up place in the Championship . |
| 8 | ‘ I had five lines of dialogue , ’ he reflects . |
| 9 | Leeds will play more testing outfits this season — City had five players injured — but this was an encouraging start . |
| 10 | The children had five shillings each to spend . |
| 11 | appointed him to undertake a complete revision of the geology of the south Wales coalfield and by 1893 Strahan had five geologists working under him . |
| 12 | While he still had five fingers under his command he went back to the window and dropped Estabrook 's letter through , murmuring the address with a tongue that felt disfigured in his mouth . |
| 13 | The Thomas household had five sons by the time Edward was ten years old . |
| 14 | Henry II had five sons who were suspicious and envious of each other , but three of them died before Henry died in the summer of 1189 , and all his possessions passed to Richard , who had pledged himself to set out for the Holy Land on the Third Crusade . |
| 15 | And I had five sons , a disabled father , according to the media , and er , I got on with it . |
| 16 | On 21 April 1868 he married Charlotte , the youngest daughter of Samuel Pyke ; they had five sons and one daughter . |
| 17 | They had five sons and five daughters , of whom three sons and four daughters survived infancy . |
| 18 | He had five sons and three daughters . |
| 19 | Bell was married 28 February 1678 to Anne Brumble ; they had five sons and one daughter . |
| 20 | They had five sons and three daughters before she died in childbirth at Zhenjiang in July 1870 . |
| 21 | Best had five sons and two daughters . |
| 22 | They had five sons and six daughters . |
| 23 | They had five sons and one daughter . |
| 24 | In 1686 Mansel married Martha , only daughter and heiress of a prosperous London merchant , Francis Millington ; they had five sons and five daughters . |
| 25 | They had five sons and three daughters . |
| 26 | They had five sons and six daughters , eight surviving infancy . |
| 27 | He married , secondly , on 5 October 1782 at Edinburgh , his cousin Isabella , daughter of his uncle and guardian Henry Curwen ; they had five sons and three daughters . |
| 28 | They had five sons , two of whom died in infancy , and two daughters , one of whom died in childhood . |
| 29 | They had five sons and three daughters . |
| 30 | They had five sons , the elder two of them twins . |