Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] had two [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One hot after noon I was cycling on a lonely road to a country house where I had two pupils when I heard a plane buzzing rather low over my head . |
| 2 | Oh yes indeed , indeed , well only last week I said do need some flowers , come on Thursday they 're fresh , I said I want them now Lionel , I hate to be without flowers in the room and he said well have two for the price of one , he would insist that I had two bunches for the price of one . |
| 3 | So that I had two homes really , because as often as not I was down at her house , as in my own home . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ So I had two choices . |
| 5 | She boasted that she had two bedrooms and a bathroom , which had been constructed from a third bedroom . |
| 6 | Erm the inter-club show erm we had to pay judges er two of them thirty pound , we would normally have got Keith for nothing , I know that we had two judges so we had to pay them er we did like so that 's two fifty pounds and we bought some we had some old trophies which we were able to buy plates for to use for that event . |
| 7 | ‘ Michael Mills insisted that we had two safety wires on Michael , whereas stuntmen would normally work with just one . |
| 8 | I notice that we had two stations in East Oxford , whereas in fact this one left West Oxford out of it altogether . |
| 9 | And Eva , the smaller one , argued with Janice that they had two cars . |
| 10 | My mum 's the sort of person who 'll just argue with anything , if she thinks she 'll argue with anybody , or anything if she thinks that she 's being swindled , so like , she even went to the extent of having , they , we had an extension built , right , and she , we had it , only fair 's fair , this one particular suite , we had erm , and they , they had this absolutely massive bathroom built , okay not specifically to have a nicer bathroom , but to have a very big room and erm , so they had two sinks , this sounds real extravagant , erm , |
| 11 | We had every other Sunday off , you see , but otherwise we worked and did n't get any extra for it but of course the girls like myself well erm we could n't lift these huge urns of tea so they had two men keep them on , you see , and er , and we were er perhaps I know one day we did n't finish until five o'clock in the morning |
| 12 | The company called it the most significant announcement in its personal computer history , adding that it had two aims : firstly , to become the number one in personal systems in Europe ; second , to be the number one supplier and implementor of choice for client-server technology . |
| 13 | When built 1622 was equipped with continuous stepboards , which means that it had two stepboards per side to allow for entry from ground level . |
| 14 | Samuel Hitching stated that he examined the Coffin carefully and that it had two canvas patches on where there were decayed places in the Wood — he also measured the thickness of the Board and they were only 5/8 of an inch at top and ½ an inch thick at the bottom — the lid was also warped that they could not screw it down properly-One of the bearers also stated that he was afraid it would fall in pieces before they got to the Church with it . |
| 15 | A solitary predator it resembled the grey wolf , except that it had two horns — one long ivory one in the centre of its forehead , and the other a squat and curved tusk at the tip of its nose . |
| 16 | He told the plaintiffs that he had two paintings by Munter for sale and accordingly an employee of the plaintiffs visited the defendants ' gallery to view the paintings . |
| 17 | On 15 August 1991 when she visited social services with D. , it was found that he had two scratches on his cheek and a bruise and the mother would not say how those were caused . |
| 18 | We can see that he had two views of what constitutes a ‘ law ’ , or perhaps we should say that he had two views as to how ‘ laws ’ manifest themselves . |
| 19 | We can see that he had two views of what constitutes a ‘ law ’ , or perhaps we should say that he had two views as to how ‘ laws ’ manifest themselves . |
| 20 | But there can be little doubt that he had two causes in mind , and great probability that he had also a third . |
| 21 | It was just after seven so he had two hours before his appointment with Elisa Stasi . |
| 22 | ‘ 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ I 've still got a steel plate and screws in my leg after breaking both ankles last year and I had two falls in four days in July . |
| 24 | Alexandra , if I had two legs as you have , if I were whole and young and healthy , do you suppose I should be content to moon through the days , dabbling at this and that , as you do ? |
| 25 | And you had two hours , fifty two minutes , right , so which is the next one , this one ? |
| 26 | Suppose the Universe really was like that , and you had two astronauts leaving the Earth at the same time in opposite directions , one from the North Pole , the other from the South . |
| 27 | They were beautiful and she had two others did n't she ? |
| 28 | This is what Ruth er felt cos she had two boys |
| 29 | If you had two axes I expect they 'd give in right away . ’ |
| 30 | Now , if you had two horses up the front , you see th their heads are facing this way the engines , th starboard er , two engines you see and they all put starboard up first you know . |