Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [adj] child " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had four children now — Charlotte , Branwell , Emily and Anne . |
| 2 | ‘ But when we got married and I had two children he did n't want me to work any more , and he got very jealous of other men looking at me . |
| 3 | Well not in the thirties of course but after the War there was one because I er , ah well this , no , this was much later , much much much , because I married my second husband and erm I had two children fairly quick . |
| 4 | I had 14 children . |
| 5 | If I had any children to send to those good schools in Highgate , even they would n't be asleep by now . ’ |
| 6 | Well I 'd rather give to if I had any children I 'd have give to them . |
| 7 | I had three children , a home to run … and tunnel vision as far as the Spencers were concerned . |
| 8 | And for , our children when they grow up cos I had three children nearly every one that had come into the town had little ones so you see we were trying to build a town for our children to benefit which I do n't know whether you think that it 's a town worth living in but I think that we have done very well and it 's a town that is caring for such as the elderly they really do care ! |
| 9 | and one woman said that the year , nineteen twenty one she was a bride of eighteen years old and she took Good Housekeeping and she 's got the whole lot although she 's now a very old lady , and she said my first lot of housekeeping was done in a house in Wales where we had water from the well we had to build the fires up by hand we could get Welsh coal cheaply but they had to you know use paper and kindle and we swept with brooms and my life has never been easier she said I had three children in four years and my life has never been easier she said and all these modern things came in life has got more and more complicated and difficult ! |
| 10 | ( She seemed to me to be about eighteen years old , although as we walked along she told me she had five children , all happily married . ) |
| 11 | She had five children by King Charles 11 , her three sons all became Dukes and her two daughters both married Earls . |
| 12 | She had five children , and her own independent income , and Creevey married her in 1802 . |
| 13 | She had six children of her own . |
| 14 | And she had six children , three of each , yet still found time to appreciate music , a very strong trait of the Tallentires . |
| 15 | And where ag erm either erm a young mother or even older women who did n't have a husband to support them , then we would try and we had one woman coming in and saying , she had six children and er her husband had gone off , and her giro had n't been sorted out . |
| 16 | She had six children . |
| 17 | She had two children who only spoke Swedish , and she found she could n't learn the language . |
| 18 | She had two children : Cathy and Noel , seven and five . |
| 19 | In a third house lived a deserted woman — " her husband lives from her " ; she had two children out at service but had five still living at home . |
| 20 | He also points out the song 's crucial omission , astonishing in a work of the protest movement : Dylan never says that Zantzinger is white and Hattie Carroll black , and forces the listener to assume that she was because of everything we are told about her : her name , that she had ten children , her position as a maid who ‘ did n't even talk to the people at the table ’ and , more tendentiously , because of what was done to her and the mild punishment meted out to her murderer who ‘ at 24 years/Owns a tobacco farm of 600 acres ’ . |
| 21 | At a national conference I met a woman convenor of a local group of refuse collectors ; she had ten children . |
| 22 | But she had three children , yet that did n't really signify anything : cows had calves , horses had foals , pigs had litters . |
| 23 | She had three children from her second marriage and immensely enjoyed their upbringing — dovetailing motherhood with a career working from home . |
| 24 | so she 's still needed , I think she bought a three bedroomed house which meant she had two girls two girls and a boy , she had three children . |
| 25 | all her sister 's energy and thinking her sister should , I mean she had a sister living with her and her sister had her own family with her , er a Mongol son , well I 'm afraid Margaret should n't of taken that attitude because she said ooh everywhere I go now there 's only me , now that 's being selfish , because she had three children and she should n't really of expected all her sisters to keep coming , they were living with her , you know |
| 26 | She had another child in her other arm — a little girl , about one or two years old . |
| 27 | You said you had six children |
| 28 | So ev even if you had six children , you 'd still allowed , still only get seven ninety five ? |
| 29 | So you had three children ? |
| 30 | Now you had three children within two and a half years . |