Example sentences of "say [pron] had [num] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 So the first opportunity I had I left Bradley 's and went back to the Lock so it 'd been war direction , war service we asked and it counted as me service with the Lock , that I had n't interrupted me service being as I was directed so that 's how I say I had fifty years at the Lock .
2 Well she smokes Lambert and Butlers and as I say she had one fag left and she said I have to keep that for Norm .
3 As I said before a bus was on a certain route number , say you had one Witton what was had now and then , well that that ran from six o'clock in the morning perhaps till eleven o'clock at night .
4 But for instance , say we had two shunters , I had two shunters .
5 Two sons aged fifteen and four , and a daughter of one year old , were mentioned in the 1871 census , but A. W. Humphrey ( see below ) says he had five children to support .
6 In his conference speech Mr Fowler attacked Labour 's reviewed industrial relations policy , saying it had one aim : to make strikes easier .
7 HDS declined to specify its installed X-terminal base , saying it had 200,000 units in the field , most of them serial terminals .
8 As I said I had one quiff from Jane that was erm because somebody had n't filled in the date by which it was agreed that the Client should get a reply and suggestion was that the procedure should be changed should be non compliance , erm and then the rest of this is based on a suggestion from Rita , and I have several here now , erm .
9 and one woman said that the year , nineteen twenty one she was a bride of eighteen years old and she took Good Housekeeping and she 's got the whole lot although she 's now a very old lady , and she said my first lot of housekeeping was done in a house in Wales where we had water from the well we had to build the fires up by hand we could get Welsh coal cheaply but they had to you know use paper and kindle and we swept with brooms and my life has never been easier she said I had three children in four years and my life has never been easier she said and all these modern things came in life has got more and more complicated and difficult !
10 I said I had three kids and I could
11 You said you had six children
12 ‘ You said you had two jobs for me , sir . ’
13 Another grandfather , a retired Manchester newsagent , would light the fires , mend shoes , and peel the potatoes , while in a south London stableman 's home the grandfather would clean the shoes and cook too — ‘ We always said we had two mothers and two fathers , always . ’
14 And I think it was Kipling who said he had six serving maids Who , What , Where , Why , When and How .
15 Gordon Bateman , who had been planning to set up an agency in Reading , Berkshire , said he had two meetings with Steen .
16 He said he had two sisters but that he was the only and beloved son .
17 The Chancellor of the Exchequer , Nigel Lawson , said he had one weapon with which to beat inflation : the interest rate .
18 Shepherd , 34 , from Wakefield , West Yorks , said he had three pints of beer before taking Flash on her walk .
19 Did you say she had two son 's ? , is the other one married ? .
20 Erm so two pounds of that went with sale with the sale of the journal and so we can say we had twelve pounds unsolicited donations , erm as Peggy would back me up if she was here , saying that any time you ask someone to sign the flood gates open with what they thought about the position of pensioners , in fact we 've probably got a lot more signatures if they had n't , but erm , we did pick up , we , I picked up the news about Welwyn Garden City 's cost of and things like that not going through and erm , erm , now , our month our monthly , our monthly stall will not be on the third third Thursday this year , it will be on the fourth to co-inside with the week were celebrating pensioner 's week , which is a week behind National .
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