Example sentences of "[coord] have [verb] [art] [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bob acquired the Blackburn-built Swordfish in September 1970 and has spent the last 22 years painstakingly rebuilding the aircraft . |
| 2 | At this time , the Blackpool Transport fleet totalled 350 vehicles and had become the seventh largest in the country . |
| 3 | Rhiannon Petts weighed just one pound three ounces at birth and had to spend the first nine months of her life in hospital . |
| 4 | Tammuz Malamute had stepped off the shuttle port outside Arcady and had delivered the last fateful message to his a.i . |
| 5 | But anyone who could understand English and had watched the last Liberal broadcast , an exercise in pure Paddiography , would know perfectly well how she could say that . |
| 6 | She lived in the house where my mother had been born and had spent the first seventeen years of her life , up until the time she was married . |
| 7 | It was where Diana was born and had spent the first fourteen years of her life . |
| 8 | He had had a distinguished war , being wounded once and decorated twice , and had spent the next five years recreating it in a series of patriotic British movies . |
| 9 | Their main argument is that the World Cup should move around on a rotational basis , but having staged the first three tournaments , other countries have some catching up to do before it returns to these shores . |
| 10 | A substitute had been required , therefore , in haste — and Daniel , who had never reached France or Italy after all but had spent the last two years at the London office of the Chartist Northern Star , had seemed as good a choice as any . |