Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] had a [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I had a nine-to-five job in an office , you could n't just call in . |
| 2 | because , you know , erm , most kids these days , especially by the time they 're nine or ten , they 're used to having their own pocket money , and then you , and they say they ca n't do any maths at all , and you say well , if you had a fifty pence and you bought something for twenty four , how much change ? |
| 3 | If you had a two week spell in hospital due to illness , and you worried about keeping your household running smoothly , the £280 weekly payments would let you employ home help without straining your finances . |
| 4 | Yes , it 's the hundred , it 's a hundred over four , what does that come to , so now if you had a hundred things shared out between , what would that come to ? |
| 5 | Though , to be frank , I could n't care less if you had a hundred village lasses , all queueing up to do your cooking , cleaning and dirty-sock-washing . |
| 6 | He was saying if you had a three tier extending ladder then the they sort of , their more rigid . |
| 7 | Well I mo moved because promotion was in the line for me , I was in the Royal Marine Police in island depot in Plymouth and er I 'd been put on plain clothes work and I 'd been doing acting sergeant you know when the sergeant was off sick and all that business and er I 'd put , been put in for this to move because we had a two bedroom bungalow but the twins were getting big and I realized that we 'd have to have another bedroom you know , very soon and er , this seemed an opportunity to get a house and also in Plymouth , that Plymouth was a naval town , you see , there was still those days there was still kind of a , a lower deck of sons , what they call lower deckers , in other words you know people in the lower deck of the navy , their sons did n't really have much , ever have much chance of getting into places like Dartmouth College or Cramwell to do as cadets , well the headmaster at Regent Street School had said to me that Keith was very keen on flying , he was aeroplane mad you see , and , he wanted to go in the Royal Air Force , well he said to me he said oh no put him in the Navy and as a chief art as an artificer , so I said oh no , I said if he goes in the Navy or the service I want him to go in the front door not like me the back door , I had ambition for him |
| 8 | Well as you can see from what Frank said , the six main sectors overall did n't fare too badly , sixteen percent drop in aggregate at the trading level and in fact er , our other interest less expenses were actually ended on eleven percent because we had a million pounds more profit from Lakeside when we sold the Tesco 's site . |
| 9 | Well the total is always three sixty all the way round but was this when you had a million pound pocket money or when you only got four pence a week . |
| 10 | Certainly it was the view adopted , for example , when we had a 6 month interregnum in Dublin , and it was assumed it was my responsibility to hold the fort . |
| 11 | Whenever he thought of that first blind delicious sensation , as he had a hundred times that morning , he had to close his eyes . |