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

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1 believe it or not we even had fifty pound towards that which is a bloody miracle .
2 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 !
3 and erm if I could just mention that we had eight grammar schools , there was erm , in alphabetical order they were Bec Beccles , er Beccles Sir John the Man , er Bungay Grammar which had er small boarding house .
4 In the Asquith coalition Unionists had eight cabinet posts and Liberals thirteen , although there were far more Unionists in the Commons .
5 The ADN and MIR each now had eight Cabinet posts , three of the MIR posts being occupied by members of the " New Majority " faction ( MIR-NM ) .
6 A third ophthalmic evaluation concluded that the patient had CMV retinitis , and continued treatment was recommended .
7 On the rural side he had 180 tenant farmers , each with between 50 and 130 acres apiece ; and just as the Prince wanted the goodwill of his urban tenants , so too in the country .
8 It was reported that in 1989 North Korea had 12 concentration camps ( four more than in 1982 ) holding 152,000 prisoners undergoing forced labour and re-education .
9 In Ninety Two we had 12 World
10 ‘ The hotel looked good — particularly the room service — but I do n't think I 'd want to have gone through the other things that happened to Kevin unless I had 50,000 policeman and 20,000 doctors with me to make sure I was okay . ’
11 Company brochures on Courtaulds pie , the leading private corporation for job losses with 23,200 at Table 5.7 ( above ) , showed that while it had 300 textile and other plants spread across the UK in 1976 , by 1981 this stock fell by 20 per cent in ‘ assisted areas ’ but only 5 per cent in non-assisted areas .
12 Had forty pound of grapes off it last year .
13 Two other vehicles in Allectus Way had 30 cassette tapes , worth £230 , and a £100 CB radio taken from them .
14 The motherboard had six 16-bit slots and one 8-bit slot .
15 You got all in that , English there , English there , English there and English there , and that I had six merit points yesterday .
16 The Irish were beaten back in ‘ 87 by 88 runs against a side which then had six Test players , including Allan Lamb .
17 Well I had six lamb chops they were only little baby chump chops , I think you 'll probably
18 And I think it was Kipling who said he had six serving maids Who , What , Where , Why , When and How .
19 Well you had six eating three hundred , so yo I divided three hundred by six .
20 You had thirteen point five times ten which I think is a hundred and thirty five in normal circumstances .
21 ‘ When we played MCC at Lord 's they had 10 county captains , if I remember rightly , and one player , J.W. Hearne , came out of the players ' gate , and the rest came out through the main entrance .
22 The MAI stake is down from 25 p.c. to 7 p.c. and the holding of Virtus — the French company which had 26 p.c. — has dropped to 8 p.c .
23 Then they 're told he had 230 burglary convictions
24 But in the second round , when Ms Wilson was eliminated , Mr Davies had 35 trade union votes against Mr Field 's 16 .
25 In 1896 France had 575,000 manufacturing établissements ; they had an average of 5.5 workers each and only 151 of them employed more than a thousand people .
26 You had three brass casters there .
27 The main mill had three water wheels and Spring Mill a single 20 foot wheel .
28 Initially , a PCR laboratory had three water baths at different temperatures , and a technician moving test tubes through each bath 40 times .
29 It had three education sub committees , a major education committee , numerous sub committees , working parties and all sorts .
30 They had three plank solid backs , but the seats were made of thin laths set on edge and not quite touching , so that rain water could pass between them .
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