Example sentences of "[adv] have the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But then we 've always had a spare bedroom have n't we , only having the one child . |
| 2 | Do you only have the one child ? ’ |
| 3 | His wife , Aunt Ann , was kept heavy with child most of the time , but she lost most of them and they only had the four . |
| 4 | ‘ You only had the four sets . |
| 5 | She only had the one dress , and a cloak , both worn and thin . |
| 6 | Everybody even though you only had the one room downstairs , I remember when my brother died he w at twelve although there was a big crowd of us in that house there was er no there was n't then there was er the four sisters was n't there ? |
| 7 | And it only had the one door . |
| 8 | So it , then I had erm , I brought up my husband 's sister 's daughter from when she was fourteen , I brought her oh , yes fourteen , I brought her up for nine years and br brought her up as my own daughter like because she got , got to be put away in a home and I did n't want her to have to go into a home so I , I brought her up you know we brought her up and sort of as , I lost my little girl she was with me like , see and she still comes to me like , she still calls but she calls me mum , mother like now , ha , you know all those years I had her , she 's married and her family 's grown up now and er she 's got one daughter left , left at home who 's just got engaged that 's Mrs from er she lives , yes so , so that was my hubby 's er sister 's daughter she only had the one daughter and two brothers , but she , the brothers she do n't hear nothing of them they just , you know they were gon na put her in a home , but we took her so she did n't have to go in a home , I did n't want her to have to go in a home |
| 9 | You see we only had the one van , you s cos the one van was wanted to go to Wicken on a Saturday again . |
| 10 | mother and she only had the one daughter and the daughter got married and oh she had about oh ten or eleven children and they 're all running round in this back yard |
| 11 | No , she only had the three children , erm Asthana was n't born . |
| 12 | Yeah , which is why I only take them once every so often which is why I only have the two because it means I can take them , you know if you 've got a family of four kids or something |
| 13 | ‘ Now that we only have the one line , we want to catch up on the backlog of maintenance and repairs . |
| 14 | You can , indeed , only have the one TESSA . |
| 15 | Well if you had er , your illness and so on , and the other debts that you may have , erm , and bearing in mind that you actually only have the nine months , you might be a little bit more er , a bit luckier than that , but how about a holiday in Disneyland ? |
| 16 | So , on Silver and Knitmaster machines , set the cam lever on tuck and side levers back ; on Brother machines , put both tuck buttons in and the Change knob on KC , and on the Toyota 901 and 950 , set the selection lever or dial to the central tuck position and card levers on C. The other Toyota machines have two methods of knitting tuck , but as I have only have the 901 and 950 I 'm not qualified to write about the 858 or 787 . |
| 17 | In year 5 , demand levels off at 3,500 units — the firm , though , already has the thirty-five machines necessary to meet this demand and so no new investment is necessary . . |
| 18 | ( It is probable that fish and chips is ambiguous , with one opaque and one transparent reading , the two being optionally distinguishable in pronunciation ; chips and fish , on the other hand , is not ambiguous , and does not have the two pronunciation options . ) |
| 19 | Women do not have the one way in which to be beautiful , but many . |
| 20 | The ruling United National Party does not have the two-thirds majority in parliament required to change the constitution . |
| 21 | Although the centre-right Alliance handsomely won the East German election , it does not have the two-thirds majority in parliament needed to change the constitution to allow unification to go ahead . |
| 22 | I started this case with 0/6 because I did not have the 0/1 in stock . |
| 23 | Civic Forum and PAV , while enjoying a simple majority in the Federal Assembly , did not have the three-fifths majority required to pass constitutional amendments . |
| 24 | Do you just have the one office or |
| 25 | oh , half us , listen we 're not having the three billy goats gruff just know , because we 're going to go out , would you like to put your coat on ? |
| 26 | You 'll soon have the five thousand Phil ! |
| 27 | That was when I just had the one fellow . |
| 28 | I mean you did n't get the card , he just had the one card |
| 29 | You just had the twelve pound for pocket money . |
| 30 | According to Tolstoy in The Minister and the Massacres ( pp 103–9 ) , no sooner had the 20–30,000 Croats assembled at Bleiburg laid down their arms ( they also included many civilians ) than Tito 's partisans opened fire from the surrounding woods causing an immense massacre ( " the slaughter was terrible … the whole field was strewn with bodies … how many people were massacred in the Bleiburg fields on 15 and 16 May is unknown " ) . |