Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] had [num] [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 | Sold as a two-year-old at the Doncaster Sales to race in Spain , he won a number of races in that country — where he had seven trainers — before making his mark internationally when winning the Prix du Cadran in France as a four-year-old . |
| 3 | This was the sixth show , so I had six days to work out a new act . |
| 4 | ‘ So I had two choices . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | £ And then in the tiny house lived a widow , Elizabeth Treadwell , with one sergeant and two other lifeguards , so she had 3 soldiers in that tiny house . |
| 7 | And then perhaps the next u erm lot that came , perhaps you 'd get six to a unit , so you had twelve baskets , That 's the way they used to work them . |
| 8 | Yes , you you 've got to extend the route , well of course you 've got to put up , trolley poles every for about forty yards and then of course there was two lengths of trolley wire that had to go because as you know trolley buses used to have two arms , positive and negative supply and er , of course the bus had to come back er alongside the premiu the outward route , it come on , so you had four wires up there and the cost of copper wire was terrific so the motor buses were developed and we expenim experimented with the buses on , on extensions mainly but when the extensions were finished we then begradged because trolley wires were then beginning to wear out , rather than replace them they would convert a trolley route into a bus route , and erm because the erm , there was a lot of people hated to see the demise of the trolley buses because they were so clean and silent and the buses came , you got the deal sloke and lumbering of the old engines , that a lot of people hated to see the trolley buses go but cos that was the , the reason that they went . |
| 9 | and , what happened was it was a hell of a stink in dock , because there was all different workers for different jobs , it was one for fitting car seats , you had one for fitting glass , you had one for doing engine , one for fitting the gear box , one fitting wheels on , so you had ten blokes just doing one job on a car |
| 10 | ‘ Once you had one Italian doing well in a place , more from their town or village followed . ’ |
| 11 | But my bit had yet to come ; I had no idea if we had sustained damage to the undercarriage , although we had three greens burning bright , I motored in as if to land on new-laid eggs ; all the crew , including Jock the engineer , were at crash stations and we landed " soft as a mouse 's instep " , as Spike used to say . |
| 12 | Although we had three rooms for the sessions , conditions were very cramped and there were last minute hitches with pupils discovering their recorders would n't work or the plug points were too far from the place allocated for the interviews . |
| 13 | That 's a tribute to the British work force and do n't let the honourable gentleman forget that we now have one point four million more in work , in the U K than we had ten years ago . |
| 14 | For instance I have given one which is in the last ten years we have nearly one and half million more people in work than we had ten years ago . |
| 15 | ‘ We could only find one orginal frame , which we used for Summer , so we had three replicas hand carved for Spring , Autumn and Winter . ’ |
| 16 | It was unsurprising that , with Johannes Rau as their candidate for Chancellor , they fared even less well in the 1987 election ( with 37 per cent of the vote ) than they had four years before . |
| 17 | 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 , |
| 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 | Although he had four years of orgies with Debbie Harry and Joan Jett at the paper between 1978 and '82 , he never kidded himself that he was on first-name terms with pop . |
| 20 | The Prime Minister greeted the day in a much calmer mood than he had forty-eight hours before . |
| 21 | All the difficulty sprang from high rents ; for his own farm , the landlord now paid four times more than he had twenty years ago , and he found this unfair : he would have been happy to go from five pounds a year to ten , but not to twenty . |
| 22 | It was just after seven so he had two hours before his appointment with Elisa Stasi . |
| 23 | 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 ? |
| 24 | So if I had if I had one course to go along and find approximately how many adverts for it ? |
| 25 | But if I had one drink of any description that 's the one thing that would make me nervous because I 'd be afraid that I 'd forget this or forget the other , so we just do n't have them at all you know . |
| 26 | If I had one wish in the world it would be to stop all this hurt and pain I 'm causing . |
| 27 | It is only natural that his pace has slowed and perhaps that gazelle-like mind , which was such an influence on the young George Best , may have dulled , but if I had eleven Dave Doyles in my side then we would make the Guinness Book Of Records and cause referees and opponents utter confusion . |
| 28 | Let's say then , I just , I used to have to work on eleven appointments a week because if I had eleven appointments a week , two people would perhaps blow me out , change their minds , two people would rearrange , two people would say no thank you , and another two would say , yes , but I need to do it next month , which might leave me with two sales . |
| 29 | They asked me if I had 30 pieces of silver , to pay for my disloyalty . |
| 30 | Then I had a baby every year after that until I had five girls and three boys . |