Example sentences of "[pers pn] had four [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Basing my decisions on body shape and colouration I thought I had four males and three females . |
| 2 | and you 'll you know it does it itself you just , you , with the computer you just say well I had four pounds and I spent a pound on that and two pound on this thirty pence on that and it goes pow does it by magic . |
| 3 | I had four cameras lying around me on the seabed , all set at different distances . ’ |
| 4 | I was walking across from suddenly being squashed under one and I had four guys in the car and they were all giving me defence . |
| 5 | Today I had four baths to fill in time and I invented you . |
| 6 | I had four attacks altogether , the most recent only a few weeks ago after I had watched Everton beat us 3-0 at Old Trafford . |
| 7 | I had four children now — Charlotte , Branwell , Emily and Anne . |
| 8 | ‘ I was running a film company , a charity , modelling and doing the BBC Good Sport I had four careers going . |
| 9 | ‘ I had four solos throughout the set , which is quite generous really . |
| 10 | I had four months on permanent duty here . |
| 11 | He said : ‘ I play basketball twice a week and I had four days ’ notice that I was to get my chance , so I had four days ' practice . |
| 12 | He said : ‘ I play basketball twice a week and I had four days ’ notice that I was to get my chance , so I had four days ' practice . |
| 13 | Once or twice people put their heads round the door and asked her if the Meditation proof was up yet , or whether she knew ‘ that she had four inches less than usual on page twelve . |
| 14 | Then she had an older one about five and a half so she had four girls . |
| 15 | Oh that was approximately about erm , well I 'm talking about now in my time it must be over twenty year ago , when he introduced that and the simple reason was there was an argument between the deputy harbourmaster and the boatmen which are the cos they used t it all happened over a ship called used to be a collier , used to run here regular and that used to discharge so much coal at Cliff Quay , then it used to go into the dock at Tolwells Quay and finish unloading because it used to bring two or three different lots of coal , it was a four hold ship , she had four holds , and there 'd be one hold for the chemical works and perhaps there 'd be three holds for and that se |
| 16 | Yes , you you 've got to extend the route , well of course you 've got to put up , trolley poles every for about forty yards and then of course there was two lengths of trolley wire that had to go because as you know trolley buses used to have two arms , positive and negative supply and er , of course the bus had to come back er alongside the premiu the outward route , it come on , so you had four wires up there and the cost of copper wire was terrific so the motor buses were developed and we expenim experimented with the buses on , on extensions mainly but when the extensions were finished we then begradged because trolley wires were then beginning to wear out , rather than replace them they would convert a trolley route into a bus route , and erm because the erm , there was a lot of people hated to see the demise of the trolley buses because they were so clean and silent and the buses came , you got the deal sloke and lumbering of the old engines , that a lot of people hated to see the trolley buses go but cos that was the , the reason that they went . |
| 17 | If you had four things |
| 18 | If you had four things and you wanted to divide them between four people |
| 19 | Mm that 's what I mean , I y we found that with four , is even more so , what some people were strong on others were n't and it it worked round you know , if you picked your team right everybody would thought perhaps it was better to have one woman in the team or , you know , if you had four women |
| 20 | We went with Traffens one year , the first year in fact we went with Traffens and that was super because when we got to the other side sort of , it was then about ten o'clock he said well if you if there 's enough people want it we will transform your transform your seats into bunks and most people wanted and you were able to push the seats so one , two pairs of seats one of the seats went up and the other went down and you had four bunks |
| 21 | It 's designed to sleep two or three but on one occasion we had four adults sleeping inside . |
| 22 | Peter added : ‘ It 's a shame because we had four teams ready to play this year — more than in any previous year . |
| 23 | And and between that er every year the conference was held and er we had four meetings a a year local meetings . |
| 24 | We had four violinists from the Philharmonic Orchestra . |
| 25 | Well they had one man in the hold and they used to have a fork lift in the hold , in Holland , with one man and he could do that job and they sent one man ashore , well over here we had four men in the hold and two men ashore . |
| 26 | And we had four casters in the works and I had to go and sort out the , I 'll tell you about the find the castings that these men wanted for their lot , take them down to the castors and tell them in priority which I wanted , you know and er all that sort of thing and erm I had n't used to do any , making any locks hardly at the end , you know I had , I had before but er if I might say so , er I became mo the most important man on the factory , you know . |
| 27 | ‘ Ten years ago we had four refineries . |
| 28 | Suddenly we had four rooms , a plumbed in bath and no poor Irish downstairs . |
| 29 | we had four kids I mean now it 's only when we get visitors you know when |
| 30 | They had four boys , John , Thomas , William and Joseph and two girls , Mary and Harriet . |