Example sentences of "[vb past] have [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 DNs reported having used 516 products and treatments in addition to those listed under ‘ current treatment ’ on 190 ( 70 per cent ) of current leg ulcers .
2 The farmers threatened to sue IBM and one , Jack Briscoe , whose farm was only a few hundred yards from the mine entrance , claimed to have lost 40 animals in the past ten years from toxic lead fallout from the mine 's operations .
3 On Sept. 18 security forces claimed to have killed 70 guerrillas as they staged an abortive attack on a police garrison to free prisoners held in the El Sepa prison colony situated in Loreto department in the north-east Amazonian region .
4 The EPLF claimed to have killed 6,500 government troops in repelling an offensive launched on April 19 on the Ginda front north-east of Asmara .
5 In the Vavuniya area the government forces claimed to have killed 250 LTTE fighters for the loss of 35 soldiers in operations on May 2-13 , after which the curfew in the area was declared lifted .
6 On the same day the Sri Lankan army claimed to have killed 50 guerrillas of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam ( LTTE ) , bringing to over 600 the total number of those killed in the latest military offensive under way since mid-March in the north around Mullaittivu and Mannar .
7 He was apprenticed about 1602 to the London engraver and instrument-maker Charles Whitwell , with whom he claimed to have served nine years by the time of Whitwell 's death in 1611 .
8 Near the end of the second count a fight broke out at the Zuwaya goal because the teller , the secretary to the local Assembly and technically above suspicion , but also Maghrabi and therefore watched very carefully , claimed to have recorded 900 votes .
9 Iran claimed to have liberated 37 villages in the provinces of al-Amarah and Basrah , but as far as the front was concerned , Iraq 's defences near al-Amarah were reported to have held .
10 The EPLF claimed to have destroyed 24 tanks in the assault , and captured 75 intact , together with a large quantity of arms and ammunition .
11 By the end of the second day the allies claimed to have taken 20,000 prisoners , to have destroyed 270 enemy tanks and to have progressed more rapidly than anticipated .
12 They reckoned to have walked 18 miles each to and from the board as they tried to beat the world record of 510,625 scored in 25s and bullseyes in 24 hours .
13 Even that may represent some revival after its Viking sufferings ; in 955 king Eadred had bequeathed 400 pounds to relieve the people of the south , the money to be distributed by the Archbishop of Canterbury and his clergy .
14 Other people who have contributed money all their lives to the NHS since it began have to wait 51 weeks for a hip replacement .
15 By last night , Labor appeared to have clinched 77 seats in the 147-member lower house , equalling its previous standing , after drawing a uniform swing in its favour of 1.98 per cent .
16 Nationalist Party supporters of Cojuangco appeared to have won 48 seats in the House , and the Liberal Party was thought to have won 15 .
17 He had had to wait four hours in the out-patients department , he said .
18 I had had to wait seven years for Evans 's pardon and another seven years for Meehan 's , and , knowing the reluctance of the Home Office even to consider whether a mistake has been made , far less admit it , I had little hopes of any quick remedial action .
19 I could not present them , at fifty-five and sixty , with the same situation they had had to face twenty years earlier when my mother had come home from the teacher 's training college where she was a lecturer in medieval history , given birth to me , and died of it .
20 Maclean also had been two games down , and had had to play two match points , before surviving on Tuesday against England 's promising 17-year-old , Simon Parke .
21 Miranda could tell that Madame Davenant was not angry that she had had to climb five floors to Miranda 's chambre , la quatorze , on the level just below the mansarde , where Marie-Angèle had her quarters , for the maid looked cheerful as she nodded in the direction of the salle de bains and promised , ‘ Une autre fois . ’
22 The two men had burned away the safe door which Joyce said had taken three hours .
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