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

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1 I had two months to go .
2 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 " .
3 ( 9 ) I had two dogs die of snake bite .
4 I had two people working for me then , and basically what we did for two years was to do this type of work on unbelievable amounts of equipment .
5 They were beautiful and she had two others did n't she ?
6 She had two bathrooms put in , and she had a dressing-room built , next to her bedroom .
7 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 .
8 Alternate benches were so made that the back could be swung over so that by a simple movement you had two benches facing each other instead of one behind the other and back-to-back with the adjoining classes , the teacher sitting on a chair between the ends of the benches .
9 You had two Orions did n't you ?
10 Still we had two ladies does n't come .
11 Well we had two copies sent to us because Amanda sent away for some
12 We had two minutes to get into cover and walked round to the other side of the wall and crouched down with our hands over our ears and our helmets firmly strapped on .
13 Sir , that that provides a very very tight timetable , and up up to now , the ordinary timetable has been we had two weeks to respond to objections .
14 We had two weeks to go before we finished basic training , and among those of us who had survived there was the blase attitude of the old hand .
15 After a morning 's surgery , we had two house calls to make .
16 And she said you 'll never guess Angie how we had two fellas tried to latch on to us .
17 We had two people singing !
18 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
19 The Comédie Française did not impress her either , for it seemed to her a collection of posturing gabbling shadows , mocking at plays that she had studied in tranquillity and silence : the celebrated mirrors of Versailles were all spotty , Notre-Dame looked at her as though it had two spires missing from on top , and the famous intellectual cafés were full of old men and tourists .
20 At that time it had two units located in Wilmslow and Knutsford .
21 Party Politics , who stands at 18 hands , has had a history of wind problems and before and after last year 's National he had two operations to improve his breathing .
22 He had two operations to repair torn ligaments in his left knee and was sidelined for 18 months during his spell with Italian club Pisa .
23 ‘ Well , he had two fingers missing from one hand and his face was covered in hairy warts . ’
24 And McBrady he had two chances to go and
25 So John said that 's it , we 're gon na have to knock the bags [ on ] the head and just give out grams , like , and he had two lads working for him doing the bags … .
26 He had two foremans worked under him , the purpose being they did the shifts , my father did all the writing for the Great Central Railway Depot , the marshalling yard or sorting out the trains .
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