Example sentences of "[vb past] had [adj] child " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean really I er it shook me because I was extremely naive , I 'd had two children but I was very very naive in those days . |
| 2 | She 'd had three children and it showed . |
| 3 | I wish I 'd had fewer children — if I 'd known the way prices would go up … |
| 4 | She made an effort to feel some true sympathy , but it was difficult — she supposed that she would n't be able to experience compassion in a deep and real sense until she 'd had some children , since only matters like the putting down of young greyhounds brought tears to her eyes . |
| 5 | The old peasant woman whom I visited told me how bad things had been before the Liberation — that she had had 8 children , of whom all but three had died . |
| 6 | She had had eight children , only four of whom survived , and had done hard physical work all her life because my grandfather had poor health . |
| 7 | In fourteen years Eleanor had not produced an heir to his kingdom , but in the first six years of her second marriage she had had five children and four of them were boys : William , who died in 1156 , Henry , Richard and Geoffrey . |
| 8 | The mother had had three children who were living with her . |
| 9 | A kind woman , she had had three children of her own and a heart as large as her ample body . |
| 10 | She would be fifty-three or four now and I find it difficult to believe that any woman who had had three children would n't show some curiosity about what happened to them once the glamour of life had worn a bit thin . ’ |
| 11 | They had had several children , of all of whom but the eldest Arthur was the father . |