Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] have [num] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 A writer is also eligible if he or she has three works broadcast on the radio or the television .
2 So those are all if you like the background , the things that do change but the fundamentals that stay the same are the design and the delivery and although we 'll look a little bit although we 've er I have to say with the numbers we 've got here today it will only be a little bit about things like question and visual aids and because of the time factor if you think about it if we 've twelve people to make four presentations or we 've eight people to make four presentations time is a little bit different and with with twelve we do n't perhaps have the luxury of time that we would with eight people which is what the course was originally designed for .
3 And I 've got a fourth board on exercise and I 've two boards I have n't started .
4 Enough to say that , after he had recovered from the operation and came home , Nigel and I had forty-eight days together in which he was serene , happy and free from pain , which I regard as beyond price .
5 ‘ 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 .
6 ‘ 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 .
7 He said : ‘ I play basketball twice a week and I had four days ’ notice that I was to get my chance , so I had four days ' practice .
8 I was walking across from suddenly being squashed under one and I had four guys in the car and they were all giving me defence .
9 Yes and eventually Shirley and I thought , well I mean , we spent weeks grouting , we grouted and we grouted and still water was coming through and we grouted and at last it seemed to be dry and the man came and did the re-artexing on the insurance and I had wa new wallpaper put up , for which I paid extra because he only allowed eight pounds a roll , the insurance company only pays eight pounds a roll and I had eleven pound wallpaper and a border and having got the whole thing up the s the patches have appeared again !
10 And I had five sons , a disabled father , according to the media , and er , I got on with it .
11 In 1974 I was at the National Theatre doing Shakespeare with Sir John Gielgud and whenever there was a play it was in repertory form , so another play came on and I had five days off , so I 'd fly to Toronto , have a three day ‘ loon ’ in Canada and then come back .
12 Never mind , they 'd done a good job , and I had one plot of depth and richness on our otherwise bald mountain .
13 And I had one rehearsal of two Bach pieces which were really difficult and I was com , feeling completely frantic during the break in rehearsal , and went over to look at the music and some fellow called Don bounded over to me and said , oh you ca n't be you know you sh ca n't be looking at that now , ba , la dee da dee da !
14 So I thought , in my wisdom I thought , there was easier way than that , wh at one bar and I had one rope come under the draw bar with a tow bar , so I said right one bit of rope , one bar , so all the docker got ta do now is take the bar out , take the rope off , that was alright and you could stow 'em on the , on the deck .
15 And I had one sergeant downstairs patrolling the er street level .
16 There were only two rooms in our house , and I had nine brothers and sisters .
17 And three great big bins from from the they called them and I had three bins in my shed that I stored the barley in and I put the moisture extractor into them and it blew It had wee in it and it blew all the moisture out .
18 Er and I had three shillings change .
19 And I had three strokes on each hand for that .
20 No , I swear to God Jean he had three , he had two pints and a glass , and I had three vodkas and it , Jean , do n't be silly the only reason that wee bugger 's
21 And I had three kings and two queens , which sobered me a little bit .
22 Sister Gemma , a Holy Rosary Sister , and I have 11 schools to look after — three in townships ( that is , black towns attached to white towns ) and eight in rural areas ( that is , farm schools , built on farm land for children of farm workers ) .
23 ‘ You know , Dorothy , you and I have one thing in common , ’ I remember saying to myself in a Dutch accent , ‘ we both only got as far as Harwich . ’
24 I 'm 21 , I 've been married for four years and I have two children aged three and one .
25 Lot seventy one a Stroviol now showing and I have fifty pounds offered , five , sixty , five , seventy seventy pounds , any more ?
26 Her eyes mist over as she says : ‘ Kurt and I have four children between us .
27 ‘ I have nothing and I have five children to feed , ’ he pleaded .
28 Lot ten Gecophone number one and I have eighty pounds , eighty five , ninety ninety pounds , any more ?
29 ‘ They 've never done me any harm and I have seven bairns , ’ she said while eating a bag of chips in the sun .
30 Mike and I have three cats , a mother cat and her two sons — Oscar and Harry .
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