Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] had [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I realised I had 17 years to go before retirement and I wanted to spend them doing what I wanted to do . |
| 2 | When we moved we had one armchair and a sewing machine . |
| 3 | But from the time the engine stopped he had five or six seconds to hit the ground . |
| 4 | Looking up in surprise , she found he had one eyebrow raised as though waiting for her to make some sarcastic comment , which successfully ensured that she did n't do any such thing . |
| 5 | Take Henry I , for example , the king who never smiled again , our teacher told us , after he had lost his only son and heir , in the White Ship : then they found he had twenty-four little baskets scattered all round the country . |
| 6 | ‘ And when she noticed I had two other children with me she laughed and said she knew what a handful they could be . ’ |
| 7 | You know did you I mean none of us realised you had thirty odd to buy |
| 8 | Yeah , cos you had , you , I mean none of us realised you had thirty to odd to buy |
| 9 | A post-mortem revealed she had one and a half litres of blood in her right lung , which had almost completely collapsed . |
| 10 | When this happened she had one option ; there was only one other perch available : my fist . |
| 11 | A post mortem showed she had 55 injuries , including broken ribs and bruises to head , neck and body . |
| 12 | Before this happened we had one last day in Lincoln , celebrating his release by buying and eating a 4lb punnet of delicious strawberries from the market . |
| 13 | Miss Claire Cannon , prosecuting , said that tests showed he had 74 microgrammes of alcohol per 100 millilitres of breath . |
| 14 | Bowden gave a blood sample — because the breathalyser machine was defective — which showed he had 203 milligrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of blood . |
| 15 | Haynes has tended to be the less adventurous of the two and does not quite have his partner 's determination to hammer the ball into a distant wall , but before the series began he had 5,340 runs at 41 , with twelve centuries , to his name all the same . |
| 16 | I started the wages and er I did n't have much more , I started I had six and eight pence per shift . |
| 17 | Oh yes you had er the the stooks you had I think ten in a stook You had five five sheaves at each side you put them like that , five you |
| 18 | In Street a man named he had two sons and he had , he had to quote , give a contract for it , but he always used to do what they 'd call a workhouse feed , and it was a four pound loaf , when my father died mother did n't get a widow 's pension , what , what she got was two shillings for each lad , there 's four of us , that 's eight shillings and a four pound loaf for each lad |
| 19 | I knew I had three fifty pence okay . |
| 20 | Basing my decisions on body shape and colouration I thought I had four males and three females . |
| 21 | Before I got pregnant it was taken for granted I 'd be in the sixth form , then when I found out , I thought I had two months to tell everybody I wo n't be back and they 're going to say , " How come ? " , so I was saying , " Oh God , I 'm going to fail my 0-levels , you wont see me back here again " . |
| 22 | That still meant she had fifty-six metric minutes to wait until they scrutinized her ticket-chip . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Well I understood she had two . |
| 25 | I thought you had five of them , I did n't realize . |
| 26 | I thought we had one of those nice er fish tanks |
| 27 | I thought we had 20 after 10 games . |
| 28 | I thought we had three to win , but it was two because Mr Lu got his birdie . |
| 29 | Asked once what he would do if he knew he had six months to live , he replied : ‘ I 'd type faster . ’ |
| 30 | He checked his watch and knew he had three hours to wait . |