Example sentences of "had [num] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 If you had fifty pence and
2 Bernard declared ‘ No Smoking ’ throughout ; but Laura , pragmatic as ever , rather than countermanding him , simply had fifty ashtrays placed strategically around the château .
3 But I remember one time one week , I had fifty cases of oranges in .
4 So they brought them down here and they had fifty cases of oranges in here .
5 Well Steve 's mum had fifty pounds worth off of Steve' aunty look , so erm I did about hundred and twenty five and I had twenty five pound back .
6 When Ted took me out into the sea , we had fifty fish
7 So the first opportunity I had I left Bradley 's and went back to the Lock so it 'd been war direction , war service we asked and it counted as me service with the Lock , that I had n't interrupted me service being as I was directed so that 's how I say I had fifty years at the Lock .
8 Must of seen them putting it in , they had fifty quid away , she had fifty quid on her
9 Must of seen them putting it in , they had fifty quid away , she had fifty quid on her
10 I had fifty quid !
11 believe it or not we even had fifty pound towards that which is a bloody miracle .
12 We had fifty percent off the price you see ! total .
13 The LAPD had 7,000 officers , albeit better trained , with an air fleet of eighteen helicopters , a budget of over $400 million and an arsenal the teenagers in the gangs could never match .
14 The Guardian had 75 stories .
15 Earlier yesterday , in the first visit by a US secretary of state to Beirut in ten years , he had 75 minutes of talks with Lebanon 's president , Elias Hrawi , prime minister , Rafik al-Hariri , and foreign minister , Fares Bouez .
16 In the Chamber of the People 101 seats were reserved for the Czech Republic and 49 for the Slovak Republic ; in the Chamber of Nations each republic had 75 seats .
17 The Aztec calendar had 365 days but these were divided up into 18 months of 20 days each , plus five ‘ unlucky ’ days .
18 Owned by Tom Clyne , who also won the last sprint on Saturday night with Clydal Chief , Pal had 2.1/2 lengths to spare from Stormhill Echo .
19 He said that on that day he had 70 pupils at the West Lothian college and Oatridge agricultural college , and the links between the colleges were excellent .
20 If she was right , they had 2,700 kilometres , or about 1,700 miles in which to make up the leeway .
21 Early in 1921 the ex-absolutists of the NCF established the No More War Movement , which had 3000 members in 1927 and continued to play a role on the pacifist left until it merged into the Peace pledge Union ten years later .
22 Under Colonel Harrison 's supervision , treatment regimens were brought under control , and by the spring of 1916 the hospital in Le Havre had 3000 beds .
23 Miss Claire Cannon , prosecuting , said that tests showed he had 74 microgrammes of alcohol per 100 millilitres of breath .
24 In terms of both household size and number of children per family ethnicity seemed more important than class , with 3.6 and 3.7 people in Welsh working class and middle class households respectively , and 6.7 and 7.1 in Bangladeshi working class and middle class households respectively ; Welsh middle and working class families had 1.5 children on average , while Bangladeshi working class averaged 3.4 and middle class 2.1 .
25 Haynes has tended to be the less adventurous of the two and does not quite have his partner 's determination to hammer the ball into a distant wall , but before the series began he had 5,340 runs at 41 , with twelve centuries , to his name all the same .
26 The Laxey wheel had 168 buckets , each holding 24 gallons .
27 He had specifically wanted somewhere with a farm and Highgrove had 410 acres ; also , to be within easy range of his friends and relatives , and again it fitted the bill .
28 The attorney-general cut off this unlikely tale : ‘ You had eleven radio-sets , sixty-six cartons of cigarettes , four hundred bars of soap , ten kilos of gold , and two hundred kilos of meat in your deep-freeze .
29 By 1980 the firm already had eleven consultants in the UK in addition to its directors , and this has since increased to twelve .
30 Yes and eventually Shirley and I thought , well I mean , we spent weeks grouting , we grouted and we grouted and still water was coming through and we grouted and at last it seemed to be dry and the man came and did the re-artexing on the insurance and I had wa new wallpaper put up , for which I paid extra because he only allowed eight pounds a roll , the insurance company only pays eight pounds a roll and I had eleven pound wallpaper and a border and having got the whole thing up the s the patches have appeared again !
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