Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] had two [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I did n't know she had two brothers .
2 But for instance , say we had two shunters , I had two shunters .
3 you could see he had two pairs of socks on , the Dayglo green ones with holes in and underneath some grey woolly ones , the kind that earnest ramblers wear .
4 Cos I mean we had two crap years had n't we , well .
5 When she was born she had two sprouts of what seemed to be orange hay on her head .
6 And I remember we had two men once , one used to keep his hand very very tight , squeeze it hard and the other used to make a very big , loose , untidy , whiskery sort of a rope .
7 For example , suppose we had two fields ( or character strings ) in the store at addresses 300 and 350 , as shown in Figure 2.20 ( a ) ; the addresses are those of the right.hand characters of the fields , and the characters whose word mark bits are set are indicated by underlining .
8 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
9 Knowing I had two members of the local cave rescue team with me , I followed them in .
10 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 " .
11 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 .
12 One day he wrote ‘ battting ’ , and when I queried this , he said , ‘ Well , I knew it had two t's , so I put three to make sure ! ’
13 Er I think I had two years in the Home Guard .
14 I think we had two ounces of margarine a week on each ration book , and butter I think we had an ounce of butter a week , and meat was very scarce .
15 ‘ You said you had two jobs for me , sir . ’
16 Another grandfather , a retired Manchester newsagent , would light the fires , mend shoes , and peel the potatoes , while in a south London stableman 's home the grandfather would clean the shoes and cook too — ‘ We always said we had two mothers and two fathers , always . ’
17 Gordon Bateman , who had been planning to set up an agency in Reading , Berkshire , said he had two meetings with Steen .
18 He said he had two sisters but that he was the only and beloved son .
19 Did you say she had two son 's ? , is the other one married ? .
20 Although I was sympathetic , I explained we had two children and a large dog and simply did n't have room for him .
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