Example sentences of "had a [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 I had a second X-ray on my injury last week and it showed that the crack had healed .
2 In the same space of time she had married , embarked on a new and totally alien job , had a baby , celebrated her twenty-first birthday , and then had a second child — all momentous events in anyone 's life , without the other pressures she was having to cope with .
3 This was the seat of the king 's magistrate and its main parish church , St Nicholas ' , had a second use as an assembly hall for the town representatives .
4 As well as the normal jockey wheels , these tanker trailers had a second air of jockey wheels , which worked in conjunction with a similar wheel fitted on the outside face of the road wheels .
5 Grégoire had a second convulsion on the way to hospital .
6 He kept stroking his own hand , then bursting into tears at his inability to communicate ; was it , as Margaret supposed afterwards , that he was trying to say that he had a second bank-book which they needed to find ?
7 As Stewart had a second frantic go , Miandad had the speed of reaction to recover .
8 Benjamin had a second XI trial with Worcester last week taking seven wickets .
9 They had a second round of drinks and talked for another twenty minutes .
10 A while later she married and had a second baby ; it was made a ward of court .
11 One further patient ( case 15 in table III ) had a second address in another part of Britain , to which he should correctly be allocated under the rules followed by the national cancer registration scheme ; he has therefore been excluded from the analyses .
12 ‘ Normally they had a second soprano in the wings for the high D flat at the end .
13 that was my twenty first birthday we bought that on , so that was before Gary was born and er , that had black screw on legs as well , the televisions had black screw , oh we did n't have a television we had a second hand television about a year after we were married and I remember Coronation Street starting , that started about when we got married .
14 When the couple , who were in their forties , unexpecte unexpectedly had a second son , the conscription officers informed them that their older son would have to serve in the army since the law exempted only one son per family .
15 ‘ They got him to hospital , but then he had a second attack .
16 Ebenezer Howard 's concept of the social city was of course essentially regional in territorial scope , and with the founding of Welwyn Garden City in 1920 , the advocates of planned satellites had a second success to record ( Purdom , 1925 ; Macfadyen , 1933 ) .
17 She had a second helping , as she had done of the casserole .
18 He had a second book , started at the outset of the Falklands War , which though still in the form of a diary , was more of a journal .
19 Low birth weight appears to be comparatively most widespread among the babies of young teenagers ; for example , 31 per cent of babies born to United States girls who had a second birth before reaching age 15 and 20 per cent of those born to 15–19 year old women having a fourth or higher order birth ( Omran , 1981 ) .
20 ‘ Once next door and then I had a second breakfast with Dad .
21 She always always oh she she had a second sight like that , I think she should 've been a doctor if she 'd lived in these this day and age .
22 I continued to assume that BW were happy about the proposal , and indeed had a second site meeting with Mr. , at which details of the sections of towpath , methods of work , and types of materials to be used were discussed — surely an indication that there were no significant problems .
23 He had a second reason for doing this , which was that he hoped thereby to put pressure on France and Germany to hand over to Spain part of French Morocco .
24 After winning her Stoddard Templeton carpet prize in London , ( see story ) , Peggy Hopkins had a second celebration in her local carpet shop when she met film and stage star , Barbara Windsor .
25 Cotton also presented in 1987 17 patients , two ( 12% ) developed biliary related problems requring surgery , one having a stormy postoperative period but no deaths ; two had a second endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography with duct clearance and five died of unrelated causes ; the remaining eight patients were followed for a mean of 39 months .
26 After the first interview 10 patients ( seven good responders , three poor responders ) had a second diagnostic anorectal manometry .
27 Three days after giving birth to Caroline , Mrs Cossins had a second sterilisation operation .
28 The 31-year-old from Paisley had a second 70 at Santa Ponsa to move alongside Ronan Rafferty at four under par , two strokes behind Danish leader Steen Tinning , who has one stroke in hand over England 's Jim Payne , South African Ian Palmer and Sweden 's Joakim Haeggman .
29 When Granpa brought us all home from midday mass there was still no sign of Dad , so I had a second night with the double bed all to myself .
30 ‘ I was going as carefully as I could because I had a 25-second cushion over Berger so I was able to slow down a bit and the pain eased .
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