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

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1 East Londoner Williams is certainly not ruing his decision to move back to Selhurst Park , saying : ‘ It 's familiar territory as far as I 'm concerned , I had two good years here with Charlton and I 'm hoping to spend a good few more here with Palace .
2 ‘ And when she noticed I had two other children with me she laughed and said she knew what a handful they could be . ’
3 I had two additional problems : my age and getting a reference from someone .
4 About four years after completing my work with lead poisoning I became a lecturer in medical genetics , working part-time as by then I had two young children .
5 I had two young children whom 1 left with a child minder nearby .
6 He finished 20 minutes behind me and I had two torn hamstrings . ’
7 After all , I had two Georgian coins to prove it .
8 I had two long dresses , a summer one and a winter one .
9 Q Up until recently I had two female Oscars in a tank .
10 I had two nervous breakdowns when I was a teenager .
11 well as a divisional sales and marketing director I had two particular jobs , one would be erm in developing if you want the alteration of sales and marketing and the other one would be looking at overall strategic in sales and marketing
12 I had two big conflicts and would end the day a bag of nerves , not knowing whether I 'd come home with anything .
13 I 'd bought two bottles of cider and I went down my friend 's house and I had two neat vodkas and two vodka-and-limes and I got drunk .
14 During that long , wet summer I had two painful tasks .
15 During my sheltered youth I had two fleeting experiences which gave me some indication that I was not alone .
16 I had two previous charges of possession in ‘ 78 , which technically should have been spent .
17 She had two young children , aged five and seven , and the ASW expressed concern for their welfare .
18 She had two young children and was going to be thirty she felt the responsibility of having to forget her fantasy life as her Frenchman 's cabin boy .
19 I was conscious that this was a quite extremely double-faceted character ; she had two definite sides .
20 She would take lunch at Gravetye Manor near East Grinstead ( a 3 out of 5 in the Good Food Guide ) where Peter Herbert , its owner , would see to it that she had two poached eggs on Bovril toast and a good , old-fashioned pudding .
21 And in each hand she had two heavy plastic carrier bags of shopping ; they cut into her hands and threatened to split .
22 She had two delicious babies , she was a Princess , a star , and the world was her oyster .
23 She had two main reasons for fearing pregnancy .
24 She had two broken wrists .
25 She had two grown-up children who were both married and living away from home .
26 She had two enormous lumps on her head …
27 She had two large rooms , and a kitchen and bathroom constructed from what had been a warren of smaller domestic offices ; her own front door had once been the tradesmen 's entrance .
28 She had two adult children who lived nearby , and had stopped visiting them as was her usual custom .
29 During her visit she had two frightening experiences .
30 Well there was always the parlour , you must have the parlour and er you , you had two living rooms and the one was the parlour and there was a cellar underneath the parlour and er the stairs used to come in from the back and go up , up the stairs over the entrance to the cellar but the stairs used to run up there underneath the stairs was the entrance to the cellar , there was a door , so that you could n't just walk down the cellar without opening the door you see , but apart from that there was er there was just the two , two bedrooms .
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