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 . |